Jonathan Bernstein

You Don't Know What You Mean to Me

That Sam and Dave managed to perform together for two decades is some small miracle.

By Jonathan Bernstein

Soul Meeting

The Soul Clan was pure potential energy. From the outset, the group was a gathering of passions, a bouquet of motives, each member with his own conception of what the communion represented.

By Jonathan Bernstein

Willie's Other Voice

By Jonathan Bernstein

AMERICAN SON BY LEVON HELM

Whether it was with The Band or, in the last decade of his life, the Levon Helm Band, Helm was always happy out of the spotlight, off to the side and out of the way, grinning, laughing, dancing, and...

By Jonathan Bernstein

DAVE PRATER’S GREATEST HITS

Dave Prater played a quietly essential role in Sam & Dave, and it takes only a slightly closer listen to their discography to hear the vital contributions of the duo’s soft-spoken half.

By Jonathan Bernstein

It Was What It Was

Guy was telling me for at least a year and a half before he died that he would not be here when the book came out.

By Jonathan Bernstein

PARISIAN NASHVILLE

Music Row has witnessed a curious trend towards France—once responsible for freedom fries and stigmatized for its liberal socialism—as an emerging, prominent country signifier.

By Jonathan Bernstein

TRADING IN WHEELS FOR WHEELS

He began writing a sketch of an idea for a novel, to try something different. He wanted the novel to be a fictionalized account of a very rough period of his life in the early nineties, and he knew...

By Jonathan Bernstein

WHAT SAM PHILLIPS HEARD

Peter Guralnick on his new book, the nature of biography, and the endless complexities of Sam Phillips.

By Jonathan Bernstein