John Lingan

3 weeks ago | smithsonianmag.com | John Lingan

The Chicago landmark represents the purest form of the American pastime The first Chicago Cubs game on the city’s North Side was held on April 20, 1916, and new fans flooded the neighborhood. The Chicago Tribune reported that 20,000 people attended the game, some of them spilling onto the field, such that an outfielder collided with a small boy in the seventh inning. “A hit into this crowd was good for two bases,” the reporter noted.

Sep 19, 2024 | infobae.com | John Lingan

La carrera de Joe Boyd comenzó en el mundo del jazz y el folk, notablemente como el ingeniero de sonido del Newport Folk Festival de 1965, donde Bob Dylan infamemente “se volvió eléctrico.” Desde allí, se convirtió en productor de Elektra Records en Gran Bretaña, trabajando en una increíble serie de álbumes de artistas como Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Nico y Nick Drake, una era de su vida que capturó de manera magnífica en su autobiografía White Bicycles (Blancas Bicicletas, 2006).

Sep 13, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | John Lingan

(ZE Books)By John LinganSeptember 13, 2024 at 2:50 p.m. EDTJoe Boyd’s career began in the jazz and folk world, notably as the sound man for the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where Bob Dylan infamously “went electric.” From there, he became a producer for Elektra Records in Britain, working on an astonishing run of albums by acts including Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Nico and Nick Drake, an era of his life that he richly captured in his memoir “White Bicycles” (2006).

Jun 7, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | John Lingan

When the Blind Boys of Alabama take the stage, audiences get more than beautiful gospel singing, they get a glimpse of living history. Emphasis on living, because this group is the longest-running party in jubilee gospel singing — the Black vocal quartets and quintets that enjoyed a commercial heyday in the 1940s and ’50s.

Dec 13, 2023 | thebeliever.net | John Lingan

John Lingan I spoke with Rhiannon Giddens in mid-June 2023, soon after the announcement that her opera, Omar, cowritten with composer Michael Abels, had won the Pulitzer Prize for Music.