Jim Barber, Author at Music Life Magazine

The best storytellers and songwriters are able to take the real life trials, travails, tribulations and triumphs in their own lives and turn them into art that touches the hearts and minds of all who […]

The term ‘super group’ seems to be thrown around with impunity these days. But it’s not out of line to use the term when describing the agglomeration of rock and roll luminaries that comprise […]

He saw Hendrix perform and it changed his life. He was scouted by none other than Ronnie Hawkins, and he himself has inspired an entire generation of hard rock and metal guitarists with his no-nonsense […]

The songs created and performed by American vocalist/composer Peter Eldridge are sometimes hard to categorize. In a world where art – particularly music – is pigeon-holed to fit within narrowly proscribed parameters and specific genres […]

Art is a way for the one who creates it, someone who is in tune with the passions and pitfalls of their life, to process the intense, often agonizingly conflicting emotions that confront all of […]