By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “Welcome to Elvis’s world, I thought again. One simply had to be there to understand.” -Ginger Alden My mother, brother and I were spending the summer in Greece when on August 16, 1977, it was announced that Elvis Presley had passed away. I was seven years old. Growing up […]
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Steve Earle on the soul of America (with the encouragement of Canada)
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett The last time I saw Steve Earle he thanked Canada for making him a rock’n’roll star. Once hailed as the saviour of country music back in the mid-’80s, Copperhead Road in 1988 morphed Earle into a bona fide rock star. “From the beginning I realized I wasn’t going to have […]