Greg Cahill

1 month ago | acousticguitar.com | Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers |Greg Olwell |Greg Cahill |Mark Small

On May 1, 2025, the singer-songwriter world lost one of its most irrepressible and beloved free spirits when Jill Sobule died in a house fire while on tour in Minnesota. Sobule, 66, was best known, in her own words, as a “two-hit wonder”: for “I Kissed a Girl,” from 1995, the first overtly gay-themed song to reach the Top 20 (13 years before Katy Perry’s song of the same title); and “Supermodel,” featured in the Clueless movie soundtrack.

2 months ago | theabsolutesound.com | Greg Cahill

Take a high-octane blues cruise with Duke Robillard down a retro Americana highway. The journey kicks off with a solid shot of Chicago blues (“Built for Comfort,” “Look What You’ve Done”). Move on for a hit of KC jump blues (“Blue Coat Man”) and a taste of horn-heavy Basie-inflected swing with a twist of Texas power-blues (“Just Kiss Me”).

2 months ago | stringsmagazine.com | Greg Cahill

By Greg Cahill | From the March/April 2025 issue of StringsReviews of violinist Paul Huang’s concert performances often rave about his “golden tone,” and his latest recording, Mirrors (Naïve), captures that quality in all its glorious sonority. You might attribute that to his ancient violin: the 1742 “ex-Wieniawski” Guarneri del Gesú (which takes its name from the famous 19th-century Polish virtuoso and composer Henryk Wieniawski), on extended loan from the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

2 months ago | acousticguitar.com | Joey Lusterman |Greg Cahill |Mark Kemp

On a recent tour, singer-songwriter Victoria Canal stopped by the AG studio to play some music and talk about her new album, Slowly it Dawns. In this trio of songs—“June Baby,” “Yes Man,” and “15%,”—Canal shares not only her talents as songwriter, but as a vocalist and performer. Despite performing in a small room for an audience of just three (me; her tour manager; and her accompanying guitarist,Callaghan Kevany), Canal put her entire heart and soul into playing these songs.

2 months ago | stringsmagazine.com | Greg Cahill

By Greg Cahill | From the March/April 2025 issue of StringsYou could almost say that John Hartford, largely known as a banjo player and country-pop composer, had a secret life as a fiddler.