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Happy Birthday, Waylon Jennings! (No, not that Waylon Jennings.)
Happy Birthday, Waylon Jennings! No, not that Waylon Jennings. I mean my dog and BTW, I didn’t name him. Waylon turned 15 years on January 16th, so we had a little party for him. I adopted Waylon from a rescue service in 2008. I’ve always liked the songs by Waylon ... [Read More]
All of Darryl Holter’s recordings are now available to stream or purchase on Bandcamp
Darryl Holter has made his latest album Roots & Branches available to stream and purchase on Bandcamp - Along with his entire back catalogue, including Radio Songs, West Bank Gone, Crooked Hearts and more, now easily accessible. Visit the entire catalogue for stream or purchase on https://darrylholter.bandcamp.com/ Darryl Holter grew ... [Read More]
Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan
It's Bob Dylan's 80th Birthday and that reminded me of this incident. - DH It was December 1977 or 1978 and I was driving from Madison to Minneapolis with April and Rachael to visit our families for Christmas. We stopped in Menominee to pick up April’s brother, Dean. Around midnight ... [Read More]
Don Heffington, Lone Justice drummer and session musician for roots stars, dies at 70
I had the pleasure of working with Don Heffington on two albums, Crooked Hearts and Roots and Branches. Don was a consummate professional. He arrived ahead of time, set up his drum kit, and was ready to roll when most of us were still tuning up. The long list of ... [Read More]
Op-Ed: Why L.A. shouldn’t rename a stretch of Figueroa Street for Kobe Bryant
By Darryl Holter, William Estrada and John Echeveste Los Angeles Times | Dec. 6, 2020 Whether with a bulldozer or stroke of a pen, Los Angeles often shows little respect for its multilayered history. To most motorists, Figueroa, Pico and Alvarado may just be major and meaningless congested streets that ... [Read More]
Love and the Shorter Work Week
Yesterday one of my dear old friends from Madison, Dave Poklinkoski, sent me an email telling me that he had heard my recording of “Love and the Shorter Work Week” on the radio. I was surprised since I haven’t heard or played that song for nearly fifty years. I ... [Read More]
San Francisco’s iconic City Lights bookstore on verge of closing
San Francisco's iconic City Lights bookstore on verge of closing Sad news. Another victim of Coronavirus might be San Francisco’s venerable City Lights Bookstore. Like other bookstores in California, including our Chevalier’s Books in LA, it has been shuttered since March 16 and may not survive. I’ve always loved City ... [Read More]
Watch Darryl Holter’s Performance & Presentation: Life During the Great Depression in Southern California
Darryl Holter’s Performance & Presentation: Life During the Great Depression in Southern California From October 26, 2019 at The Glendale Public Library. Darryl Holter sings Woody Guthrie songs and shares stories from Guthrie's time in Los Angeles. Presented in partnership with the Natural History Museum. Darryl performs several ... [Read More]
Performance & Presentation at Glendale Public Library
The La Crescenta Valley New Year’s Flood of 1934: Life During the Great Depression in Southern California Join local artist Darryl Holter on a musical odyssey of Glendale’s weather history. Holter sings Woody Guthrie songs and shares video commemorating the 1934 Crescenta New Year's Day flood. This video features Darryl ... [Read More]
Rolling Thunder Revue
In his new documentary, Martin Scorsese revisits a famous Bob Dylan tour that included Joan Baez and Allen Ginsberg. Martin Scorsese’s belated film on Bob Dylan’s “Rolling Thunder Revue” in 1975 is a cinematic gem. We see Dylan joined once again with stunningly beautiful Joan Baez, their duets recreating the ... [Read More]
Tony Glover, Master of the Blues Harmonica, Is Dead at 79
Tony Glover was an incredible blues harpist and a major figure in the music scene in Minneapolis. Mick Jagger and John Lennon learned to play blues harp from Tony and his “Blues Harp” book. In the late ‘60s Tony took over the all-night “underground” shift at KDWB AM. While Dave ... [Read More]
“Hadestown” is Front-Runner for Tony Awards
Update - "Hadestown" Wins 8 Tony Awards Anais Mitchell won a Tony for best musical score and Hadestown won for best musical. 8 Tony Awards in all! - DH "Hadestown" is Front-Runner for Tony Awards The brilliant singer-songwriter, Anaïs Mitchell, who sang with me on my Roots and Branches album ... [Read More]
Happy Birthday, Waylon Jennings! (No, not that Waylon Jennings.)
Happy Birthday, Waylon Jennings! No, not that Waylon Jennings. I mean my dog and BTW, I didn’t name him. Waylon turned 15 years on January 16th, so we had a little party for him. I adopted Waylon from a rescue service in 2008. I’ve always liked the songs by Waylon ... [Read More]
All of Darryl Holter’s recordings are now available to stream or purchase on Bandcamp
Darryl Holter has made his latest album Roots & Branches available to stream and purchase on Bandcamp - Along with his entire back catalogue, including Radio Songs, West Bank Gone, Crooked Hearts and more, now easily accessible. Visit the entire catalogue for stream or purchase on https://darrylholter.bandcamp.com/ Darryl Holter grew ... [Read More]
Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan
It's Bob Dylan's 80th Birthday and that reminded me of this incident. - DH It was December 1977 or 1978 and I was driving from Madison to Minneapolis with April and Rachael to visit our families for Christmas. We stopped in Menominee to pick up April’s brother, Dean. Around midnight ... [Read More]
Don Heffington, Lone Justice drummer and session musician for roots stars, dies at 70
I had the pleasure of working with Don Heffington on two albums, Crooked Hearts and Roots and Branches. Don was a consummate professional. He arrived ahead of time, set up his drum kit, and was ready to roll when most of us were still tuning up. The long list of ... [Read More]
Op-Ed: Why L.A. shouldn’t rename a stretch of Figueroa Street for Kobe Bryant
By Darryl Holter, William Estrada and John Echeveste Los Angeles Times | Dec. 6, 2020 Whether with a bulldozer or stroke of a pen, Los Angeles often shows little respect for its multilayered history. To most motorists, Figueroa, Pico and Alvarado may just be major and meaningless congested streets that ... [Read More]
Love and the Shorter Work Week
Yesterday one of my dear old friends from Madison, Dave Poklinkoski, sent me an email telling me that he had heard my recording of “Love and the Shorter Work Week” on the radio. I was surprised since I haven’t heard or played that song for nearly fifty years. I ... [Read More]
San Francisco’s iconic City Lights bookstore on verge of closing
San Francisco's iconic City Lights bookstore on verge of closing Sad news. Another victim of Coronavirus might be San Francisco’s venerable City Lights Bookstore. Like other bookstores in California, including our Chevalier’s Books in LA, it has been shuttered since March 16 and may not survive. I’ve always loved City ... [Read More]
Watch Darryl Holter’s Performance & Presentation: Life During the Great Depression in Southern California
Darryl Holter’s Performance & Presentation: Life During the Great Depression in Southern California From October 26, 2019 at The Glendale Public Library. Darryl Holter sings Woody Guthrie songs and shares stories from Guthrie's time in Los Angeles. Presented in partnership with the Natural History Museum. Darryl performs several ... [Read More]
Performance & Presentation at Glendale Public Library
The La Crescenta Valley New Year’s Flood of 1934: Life During the Great Depression in Southern California Join local artist Darryl Holter on a musical odyssey of Glendale’s weather history. Holter sings Woody Guthrie songs and shares video commemorating the 1934 Crescenta New Year's Day flood. This video features Darryl ... [Read More]
Rolling Thunder Revue
In his new documentary, Martin Scorsese revisits a famous Bob Dylan tour that included Joan Baez and Allen Ginsberg. Martin Scorsese’s belated film on Bob Dylan’s “Rolling Thunder Revue” in 1975 is a cinematic gem. We see Dylan joined once again with stunningly beautiful Joan Baez, their duets recreating the ... [Read More]
Tony Glover, Master of the Blues Harmonica, Is Dead at 79
Tony Glover was an incredible blues harpist and a major figure in the music scene in Minneapolis. Mick Jagger and John Lennon learned to play blues harp from Tony and his “Blues Harp” book. In the late ‘60s Tony took over the all-night “underground” shift at KDWB AM. While Dave ... [Read More]
“Hadestown” is Front-Runner for Tony Awards
Update - "Hadestown" Wins 8 Tony Awards Anais Mitchell won a Tony for best musical score and Hadestown won for best musical. 8 Tony Awards in all! - DH "Hadestown" is Front-Runner for Tony Awards The brilliant singer-songwriter, Anaïs Mitchell, who sang with me on my Roots and Branches album ... [Read More]
Darryl Holter grew up playing the guitar and singing country and rock and roll songs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His current brand of Americana music draws from country, blues and folk traditions and often tells stories about people, places and events.