Daniel Gewertz

Arts Feature: Music That Sustained Us Through (Another) Year of the Pandemic

December 26, 2021
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Canadian singer/songwriter Allison Russell’s Outside Child made two lists. And so did Little Simz’s Sometime I Might Be Introvert.

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For the Love of the Cover: Nanci Griffith and Keeping Folk Songs Alive, at Passim

September 30, 2021
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The talent at Club Passim’s Nanci Griffith night represented at least two generations: it was a nice, low-key salute to the singer/songwriter, who played the venue often in the mid-’80s.

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Book Review: “The Regrets” — Love Affair With the Semi-Dead

September 20, 2021
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Is Amy Bonnaffons saying that heterosexual love is doomed? Probably not. But she gives no indication it can work in the world she creates here.

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Music Remembrance: Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith (1953-2021)

September 14, 2021
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There were no performers who possessed more talent than singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith in the 1980s and early ’90s, when she was at her remarkable best.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (September Entry)

September 9, 2021
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Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s list includes such big names as Bob Dylan, ZZ Top, The Who, The Beach Boys, and George Rochberg.

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Music Remembrance: Don Everly (1937-2021)

August 29, 2021
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The Everly Brothers’ close harmony work was so sinuous it sometimes seemed close to witchcraft.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (April Entry)

April 8, 2021
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Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and the list includes Marvin Gaye, Link Wray, David Bowie, Jean Knight, and The Rolling Stones.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (March Entry)

March 9, 2021
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Here’s yet one more fantastic thing about it no longer being 2020: it’s now the 50th anniversary of the excellent music that premiered in 1971.

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Jazz Commentary: Russell’s “Hustle,” The Duke of Ellington, and Me

August 9, 2020
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What exactly did the Duke’s music symbolize to Russell’s shifty characters, two upwardly mobile lowlifes more anxious to fleece the world than fall in love?

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Short Fuse Podcast #24 — Hopes & Gripes, The 2020 Grammys

January 27, 2020
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One of the Art Fuse‘s music reviewers, Deanna Costa has a lot to say about this year’s Grammys awards.

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