Howard appears on NPR's "SOUNDCHECK" on January 30, to discuss the BASEMENT TAPES project. Tune in to WNYC (or your local NPR affiliate) for details.
Original HFQ Back in the Studio
Fans of the Original Howard Fishman Quartet, featuring Russell Farhang, Peter Ecklund and Andrew Hall, will be pleased to know that the band has gone back into the studio to record HOWARD FISHMAN QUARTET VOL.III, a tribute to the music of Hoagy Carmichael. More details to follow...
New MP3
This month's free MP3 download is "Crash On The Levee" from the new BASEMENT TAPES CD. Have a listen!
Chicago Return!
Howard returns to his home away from home when he brings his band back to the STEPPENWOLF THAETER for a showing of the BASEMENT TAPES project on March 2, 2007. Tickets on sale soon!
Holy Greil
The BASEMENT TAPES CD has gotten its first advance praise from none other than rock and pop music guru/legend Greil Marcus, author of "Lipstick Traces" and "The Old, Weird America," the seminal book on Dylan and The Band's Basement Tapes. Here's what he has to say about the new CD: "Remarkable…I'm stunned, especially by 'I'm Not There.' The archaeological work…seems to me completely right, never forced, lucid, luminous, but the performance, as with Dylan's, is where the truth of the song reveals itself. It just broke me in half. Also 'Yea Heavy,' 'Kickin' My Dog,' and second only to 'I'm Not There' the gorgeous 'Crash on the Levee.'" -Greil Marcus