Author Archives: Kathleen McCann and Alex Rawls

October 1st 2009

The Rosetta Stone

Shannon McNally met Jim Dickinson immediately after Katrina, but they could have been lifelong friends from the way she talks about him. “It was kind of like coming home,” she says of meeting him. Dickinson, the famed record producer and pianist, died August 15, and his last session was as piano player on McNally’s new [...]

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October 1st 2009

The Minus 5 with Steve Wynn and the Baseball Project

Scott McCaughey says of his band, the Minus 5, that they “never wanted to get too serious, just an anything-goes kind of deal.” That philosophy has led to a revolving door lineup that has included members of R.E.M., Wilco, the Posies, the Decemberists and more. The players have often been friends, so the sessions are [...]

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