David Wilson
Bio:
In the ‘60s, David Wilson was the publisher and editor of Broadside of Boston, one of the founding directors and sometimes editor of Boston’s underground newspaper, Avatar. He started a record distribution company, Riverboat Records, left it for several years and and later returned to be its manager. He also managed at one time or another two Boston coffeehouses, Café Yana and The Odyssey and a short lived video theater, The Video Frontier. He was director of Folk Music for MIT’s FM station, a writer for WGBH TV’s “Folk Music USA,“ and the Peabody winning ‘What’s Happening Mr. Silver?†He has an abiding interest in the field of traditional, Americana, roots and folk music while still finding much to his liking in many other forms as well. Off and on, these days, he works at developing his concept of video as gallery art.
Recent Articles:
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A Conversation With Herb Gart - Part I Music
The Early Days
By: - Apr 19th, 2012Herb Gart had a hand in the careers of many entertainment icons including Bill Cosby, Janis Ian, The Youngbloods, Charlie Daniels, Don McLean and Ed Begly, Jr. Here he chats about how it all started.
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Ear Say II - Bearfoot and Joy Kills Sorrow Music
Ongoing Thoughts About Appealing CDs
By: - Apr 12th, 2012Bluegrass, Old timey, Mountain Music, Hillbilly, all cloaked these days as Roots or Americana. Here are two superb examples
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Ear Say: Ana Popovic and Candye Kane. Music
Recent CDs By Women Blues Singers
By: - Jan 31st, 2012Here are two contemporary releases by women with whom the blues have had their way, Ana Popovic and Candye Kane.
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Paul Geremia Live At Bull Run Music
With Marylou Ferrante
By: - Dec 28th, 2011It had been some forty or so years since seeing Paul Geremia perform. During that time he became a cult icon. Even Dave Van Ronk, in his autobiography, speculated that Paul, might be the best blues performer extant. Marylou Ferrante who opened for him is yet to record. That should change soon. We look forward to her future performances and since she resides in the Worcester area..
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The Guthrie Family Rides Again at the Colonial Music
Thanksgiving Tradition Continues in Pittsfield
By: - Nov 22nd, 2011At one point I counted 13 Guthrie Family members on stage all at the same time. There may have been more, but some were small and scampered around a bit. The first time I and most of the audience heard Arlo, was also the first time we heard Alice’s Restaurant. Within a short time, Arlo had the entire room in the palm of his hand.
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Life in Lake Quabbigon Gone Honk Theatre
With Apologies to Garrison Keillor
By: - Nov 21st, 2011Where all the artists draw with finer lines, musicians play more melodious chords and cows give sweeter milk. Randy Stevens, she lives just a short piece down the road here, talked some about how some of the darker events in her life have affected her vision and her creations.
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In Durance Vital - Part IV Music
Notable Music From Musical Notables
By: - Oct 28th, 2011Once again I have a batch of some new and some almost new goodies by real oldies almost all of whom are still putting out music worth listening to. I address these descriptions mostly to those of you who survived the ‘60s and the decades that followed, but if you were not around then, here is recent music by some of the best who may have made daily life for your parents and grandparents if not joyous, a bit more bearable.
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The Art Salon in Central Mass Fine Arts
An Interview with Pat Bock
By: - Oct 20th, 2011When I sat down with Pat a week ago, ostensibly to discuss her Eagle Hill 2011-2012 Art Teas schedule, I had little idea how wide a spectrum of ideas we would end up exchanging. Here in a somewhat distilled form is the essence of our conversation.
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The Good Lovelies Concert in Hardwick Music
Captivates Audience At Eagle Hill Cultural Center
By: - Oct 17th, 2011Sometimes, The Right Act Meets The Right Audience And It's Love At First Song. While standing O’s have become commonplace, the two that bracketed their encores seemed far more spontaneous and more enthusiastic than usual and most of the audience was clearly reluctant to let them go.
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David Mallet's Inch By Inch, Row By Row Music
Continues To Sow at Eagle Hill Cultural Center
By: - Oct 12th, 2011In concert at Hardwick’s Eagle Hill Cultural Center, the audience welcomed him warmly and offered up two standing and extended ovations at the end.
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Tastefully Quabbin - A Bouquet Of Flavors Food
QUEST Fundraiser
By: - Oct 06th, 2011Shortly after 7pm, Monday evening, armed with a ravenous appetite, I made my way into the main dining room at the Eagle Hill school in Hardwick where the QUEST sponsored, Tastefully Quabbin 2011 was under weigh. I began by sampling a few nibbles of several varieties of aged cheese offered up by the Robinson Farm. I could easily have lingered there.
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Maria Muldaur At The Bull Run In Shirley Music
Weaving New and Old
By: - Oct 02nd, 2011Sometimes leading the beat, sometimes following, her voice gliding up and down the scales, stroking, stretching, bending and twisting the notes. For close to two hours, Maria Muldaur without a break performed blues, gospel, r&b, funk and folk.
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QUEST Presents Food
Local Restaurants & Food Producers Fete
By: - Sep 29th, 2011Tastefully Quabbin returns for another round of fund raising on Mon, October 3, 7 to 9 PM at The Cultural Center of the Eagle Hill School in Hardwick.
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Eagle Hill Launches Fourth Season Theatre
Interview with Director Sean Hunley
By: - Sep 28th, 2011A sit down chat with Eagle Hill's Cultural Center director to discuss the path traveled and the road ahead.
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I Feel So Good Music
The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy
By: - Sep 14th, 2011Bob Riesman tracks the life of William Lee Conley Broonzy through murky early years to his death in 1958.For devotees of the Blues, the evaluations of this book voiced in the foreword by genre sage, Peter Guralnick, and echoed in an appreciation by blues performer, Peter Townshend, voice my thoughts about this biography of Big Bill Broonzy, his life and his contributions to an iconic musical form.
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In Durance Vital - Part III Music
More Riches for Vintage Listeners of Americana
By: - Jun 18th, 2011Here are four more examples of Cd's to include in your treasured collection of mostly contemporary releases by mostly surviving veterans of the long lost '60s folk scene. May they please you as much as they do me. While preparing to write about this latest batch of CD’s from musicians with artistry rooted in the ‘60s metro-Boston folk scene, I became aware of something that had previously escaped me.
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Eagle Hill Cultural Center, Gilbert Players Music
Bold Experiment in Music and Perception
By: - Jun 17th, 2011Can opera, once the music of the people overcome its current elitist reputation and again win the hearts of rustic audiences? Together these folk hope to find the answer is yes! Greater Worcester Opera, the new name for what was once known as Worcester Opera Works experiments this coming Thursday evening, June 23rd by taking their recent performance success of two comic classics out to the hinterlands for an encore.
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Tom Paxton At The Colonial Music
Setting Fire to Our Imaginations
By: - May 25th, 2011Tom’s Colonial Theatre appearance this Saturday past was more than just a concert. It was a reunion and a celebration of the mutual respect with which Paxton and the Pittsfield fire brigade hold each other.
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Joy Kills Sorrow Sparkles At TCAN Music
And Brightens Up A Dreary Friday Night
By: - May 23rd, 2011...flavored with motifs from bluegrass, country, western swing, ragtime, classical, jazz, field hollers and contemporary so-called acoustic songwriting with the end result being that they sound like Joy Kills Sorrow and no one else...
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Jaime Thibault, An Acadian Artist Fine Arts
Fine Art of Functional Objects
By: - May 17th, 2011True to the folk artist tradition, many of the creations of Nova Scotian wood sculptor, Jamie Thibault are functional objects. They include skis, stools, gun-stocks, canes, walking-sticks and of late, violins. Much of his work created for its aesthetic value alone attains the stature of fine art.
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Provincetown Theatre Company’s Playwrights’ Festival Theatre
It Begins With The Words!
By: - May 12th, 2011This weekend the Provincetown Theatre Company lifts the curtain for the Spring version of their semiannual Playwrights’ Festival, now in its 15th year. The festival strives to foster the development of new works by established and emerging playwrights.
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In Durance Vital - Part II Music
More Nuggets from Old Friends
By: - Apr 27th, 2011As noted in my first installment of this series, to experience artists in top form almost a half century after they first caught your attention is a marvel indeed. We welcome back our renowned contributor after a winter in Arizona. Where he hibernated and caught up on the latest CDs.
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Woody Guthrie's American Music Theatre
An Arizona State Theatre Production
By: - Dec 19th, 2010Randal Mylers deft handling of Peter Glazer's unvarnished script and solid performances by an all veteran Broadway cast make for a satisfying and nostalgia evoking evening
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Dala Enchants at Natick Center for the Arts Music
A Standing O From a Sold-out House
By: - Nov 22nd, 2010If the Everly Brothers had been sisters... If the Andrews Sisters or the McGuire sisters had been a duo... Dala fulfills the speculation and rouses a full house at the Natick Center of the Arts to their feet.
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In Durance Vital - Part I Music
Recent Recordings From Senior Folkies
By: - Nov 17th, 2010To experience artists in top form almost a half century after they first caught your attention is a marvel indeed. I can’t imagine the extent of the dedication and commitment to a craft that is required to be able to do that. The fact that I have at one time or another had personal contact, sometimes brief, sometimes extended, occasionally contentious with most of the principals of the releases listed below only increases my wonder at their durability. I have no bones to pick here and only praise to offer.
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