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Darren Paltrowitz
September 6, 2019
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The romanticism of Matt Nathanson
Ryan Torok
September 7, 2011
Pop-folkie Matt Nathanson had just returned from hanging in Hawaii, but it was a vacation he only enjoyed “50 percent,” he said.
Ray Benson (Asleep at the Wheel): The biggest Jew in country music [VIDEO]
Jewish Journal
October 7, 2008
The Jewish king of country music is only now publicly revealing his Jewish identity
Leonard Cohen Film Toasts Songwriter
Steven Rosen
January 19, 2006
Cohen became first an accomplished poet and then, starting with 1967\’s \”Songs of Leonard Cohen\” (which contained the oft-recorded \”Suzanne\”) a singer-songwriter. According to Ira Nader\’s Cohen biography, \”Various Positions,\” Cohen\’s Judaism has influenced his songs greatly — \”Who By Fire\” is based on the melody of a Yom Kippur prayer, \”Mi Bamayim, Mi Ba Esh,\” and \”If It Be Your Will\” is derived from a \”Kol Nidre\” phrase.
Maseng of Many Hats
Ellen Jaffe-Gill
June 6, 2002
Somebody must have perfected human cloning, because no way is Danny Maseng just one person.
When the singer-songwriter-guitarist-actor-poet-dramatist-lay rabbi-teacher-visionary, who will headline the Fund for Reform Judaism\’s annual fundraiser at Temple Isaiah in Rancho Park on June 13, isn\’t performing, he may be teaching the Zohar, leading a service at his New York congregation or dashing off a new setting for a passage in Jewish liturgy.
Or he might be working institutionally on innovations in Jewish arts, Jewish worship, Jewish music or Jewish camping.
Zen Cowboy
Michael Aushenker
January 6, 2000
There\’s a new singing cowboy in town, and his name is Ken Kunin.\n\”I\’ve been in this crazy industry for about 10 years,\” says the lead vocalist/songwriter. And he\’s about to turn up the heat.\n\nHis band, davis waits, has been receiving radio airplay , including on local outlets KLOS and KTTC; and a cross-country tour in support of their new album, \”the evolution of…,\” will follow after the New Year.
Voices of Hope
Diane Arieff
June 19, 1997
Chances are, there are not many singer-songwriters whose oeuvre contains subjects as disparate as the \”Shecheyanu\” and a visit to the dentist. But such is the nature of Craig Taubman\’s career.
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