Denver Post

Lothar and the Hand People: Return Of The Weird: Lothar and the Hand People

Report and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, 29 October 1995

"YOU THINK THERE'LL be enough interest in this that I'll be able to make a fortune giving theremin lessons?" ...

Curtis Mayfield: No Sad Songs For Curtis Mayfield

Report and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, 6 March 1994

ANYONE CAN HAVE a paralyzing, life-diminishing accident at anytime - bad things happen to good people just as often as good things. You just accept ...

Dan Penn: Southern Soul Rises Again : Dan Penn's Do Right Man Out on Top Label

Report and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, 10 July 1994

IF THE RACIAL history of the American South was a book, it would be a tragedy - but not without inspirational chapters about black and ...

Bill Haley: Jim Dawson: Rock Around the Clock - The Record that Started the Rock Revolution

Book Review by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, June 2005

DID HOLLYWOOD create rock 'n' roll? That sounds like a strange, ridiculous and even offensive question to anyone who likes rock and all its musical ...

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown: Denver Show Starts Celebration of 50th-anniversary Recording

Report and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, 15 January 1997

THIS YEAR is Clarence 'Gatemouth'' Brown's 50th as a recording artist, and virtually everyone is preparing to honor the blues musician. ...

Bob Dylan: Dylan Album Revives Interest in 2 Old Films

Report and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, 17 October 1998

IT'S 1966 ALL over again in the world of pop music – and the Denver International Film Festival, which just concluded, was in
 the centre ...

Frankie Valli headlines Kool Koncert

Interview by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, 1995

THERE IS SUCH a thing in rock music as "the chill factor.'' Itrefers to songs that, because of some unusual element - a cryingguitar, perhaps, ...

Gene Pitney Gets His Limelight

Comment by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, 11 April 2002

THE BIG NEWS at this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies was that Gene Pitney finally got in. ...

Neil Young: Brush With Death Leaves Troubadour Grateful: Heart of Gold

Report and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, 14 February 2006

JONATHAN DEMME orders orange juice for himself, Neil Young and a reporter at downtown's Zoom Restaurant in Park City, Utah - a refreshing way to ...

Leonard Cohen: Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Colorado

Live Review by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, 4 June 2009

IF LEONARD COHEN, now 74, intends to retire from performing after his current tour, he couldn't have picked a better venue for his final North ...

Kate & Anna McGarrigle: The Stubborn McGarrigles' Folk Music Keeps On Shining

Retrospective and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, 23 February 1997

LIFE IS SHORT with few guarantees. But here's one – Kate and Anna McGarrigle will always make wonderful folk music. If only they weren't so ...

Simon Bonney Proves He Belongs in Country: Songs Reflective, Stark and Sincere

Live Review by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, 11 May 1995

COUNTRY-AND-WESTERN music and European art songs aren't as strange a combination as you might think. ...

Billy Bob Thornton Talks Movies and Music

Report and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, 16 February 1997

ALL ACROSS AMERICA last week, there was one big question after the Academy Award nominations were announced: "Billy Bob who?''  ...