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Donald Gibson
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Music Journalist, Freelance
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Biography
Donald Gibson is an author and freelance music journalist. His work has appeared in such online publications as No Depression, Spinner, Blinded By Sound (blindedbysound.com), Cinema Sentries, The Seattle Post Intelligencer, Something Else! Reviews (somethingelsereviews.com), and Blogcritics.org, where he was the Senior Music Editor (2011-2012) and Assistant Music Editor (2008-2011). Gibson has interviewed and profiled hundreds of recording artists, among them: • Tony Bennett • Merle Haggard • Jakob Dylan • Lucinda Williams • Boz Scaggs • Allen Toussaint • Steve Cropper • Katie Melua • Charli XCX • Emily Haines [Metric] • Alan Parsons • Joan Armatrading • Bruce Hornsby • Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi • Kenny Rogers • Neil Finn [Crowded House] • Daniel Lanois • George Thorogood • Kate Nash • Adam Cohen • Dave Holland • James Williamson [Iggy & The Stooges] • Jimmy Webb • Christina Perri • Bill Frisell • Howard Jones • Jonny Lang • Marty Stuart In writing on various aspects of music appreciation and music criticism, he's also interviewed and profiled select writers and auteurs, including: • Anthony Decurtis, Rolling Stone contributing editor • Robert Hilburn, author and former L.A. Times chief pop music critic • Greil Marcus, author and music historian • Murray Lerner, Academy Award-winning music-documentary filmmaker
songwriting, album reviews music business, books pop culture, music criticism music, music history
fashion, sports
Content
By Donald Gibson| writeonmusic.com@ As one of country music’s most venerable artists and ambassadors, Marty Stuart wasn’t about to stand idly by while witnessing what he saw as the integrity of its heritage being compromised. “The roots of country music were being ignored and disregarded,” says Stuart, a native of Philadelphia, Mississippi, “and it was slipping away.
By Donald Gibson| writeonmusic.com@ Like the most righteous of revelations, the one Steve Cropper experienced as young boy was a watershed. “I was probably a good 12 or 13 years old before I was allowed to listen to a radio,” the guitarist recalls. “I heard gospel music for the first time and it just, I don’t know, it just took me by whatever. It was the greatest stuff I’d ever heard.
By Donald Gibson| writeonmusic.com@ The road back was never going to be a smooth one. Nearly a quarter of a century had elapsed between the recent reunion of The Cars and the band’s last studio album. Benjamin Orr, its bassist and the voice behind its biggest hit, “Drive,” succumbed to cancer in 2000. Then there was the ill-fated New Cars debacle, featuring Todd Rundgren in place of singer/rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, which met with dismal album sales and critical indifference.
Company Info
Freelance
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De Pere, Wisconsin, United States