 |
 |
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
Ted Drozdowski is a freelance journalist and musician living in Boston, Massachusetts. He writes about popular culture, specializing in music. His work has appeared internationally in a wide variety of publications including Tracks, Rolling Stone and Musician. Before freelancing Ted was associate arts editor at the Boston Phoenix, where he remains a frequent contributor, and an editor at Musician.
He is co-author of The Best Music CD Art and Design and appears regularly on television and radio offering commentary on music. He was a research consultant for Martin Scorsese’s PBS-TV series "The Blues" and has been awarded the Blues Foundation’s Keeping the Blues Alive Award for Journalism as well as other commendations.
Ted left the Boston Phoenix in 1997 to freelance and devote greater energy to music making. He is slide guitarist and singer for the Mississippi hill country informed blues group Scissormen, which released the EP Jinx Breakers on the Hi-N-Dry label in 2004. A full-length recording is expected in fall 2005. Ronnie Earl has recorded his songs ‘Black and White’ and ‘New Vietnam Blues’ with Kim Wilson and Irma Thomas, respectively, on vocals.
Ted’s musical resume also includes psychedelic rockers Devil Gods (Sick Little Monkey, 2001), textural experimentalists Blood Blister, John Sinclair’s Blues Scholars (Steady Rollin’ Man, 2002) and Vision Thing (Vision Thing, 1996).mHis wife Laurie Hoffma is a photographer. She and Ted often collaborate on performances combining visual art and music.
List of articles in the library by artist
Aerosmith : The Joe Perry Interview
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, unpublished, May 2005
Cramps, The : Kid Congo Powers
Profile and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, September 2006
Diamanda Galás : Diamanda Galás Prepares To Perform A New Defixiones
Profile and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, September 2005
Godsmack: Godsmack IV
Review and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, May 2006
Gun Club : Kid Congo Powers
Profile and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, September 2006
Buddy Guy, Blues Singer
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World Acoustic, June 2003
Merle Haggard : Branded Man: Merle Haggard Brings The Bakersfield Sounds East With Dylan
Report and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, April 2005
Ben Harper on the Inside
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World Acoustic, June 2003
Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds : Kid Congo Powers
Profile and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, September 2006
Mission of Burma: Burmese Days
Retrospective and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, January 2002
Joe Perry : The Joe Perry Interview
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, unpublished, May 2005
Sonic Youth: Dirty
Review by Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, July 1992
Lucinda Williams : Lucinda's World
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World Acoustic, August 2003
Back to LIBRARY
|
||||||
 |
||||||
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Magazine Archive | About Us | Press Room | Your Account | Home