Anyone who was a music fan in NYC between February 12, 1974 and January 22, 2004 has their own Bottom Line stories. I get to share a few of mine in “Positively Fourth and Mercer: The Inside Story of New York’s Iconic Music Club” (Backbeat Books), an oral history by Bottom Line co-founder (and already …
If anyone wondered just how Patti Smith would close the Saturday concert at the Newport Folk Festival, where the guiding principle is “speaking truth to power,” it was with one lightening jolt after another. And I don’t mean the kind that lit the sky shortly after her sun-drenched set ended. Who else would even dream …
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