The Back Room Blog

It was a great pleasure this past July 4th to meet our friend Enda Kenny, Ireland’s Prime Minister from 2011… Read More

Bruce Springsteen’s birthday is this Saturday, September 23rd. Happy Birthday Bruce! Crawdaddy Magazine Party, June 8, 1976. Photograph by David… Read More

Bessie Smith: The Anthology The Back Room has been closed over the summer and while in Ireland, I was listening… Read More

I just bought a copy of my favorite photo book of this year, 50 Years of Rolling Stone, from Abrams.… Read More

Patti Smith: American Artist. A new paperback edition of Patti Smith: American Artist, featuring Frank Stefanko’s beautiful photos of Patti,… Read More

Check out this fantastic BBC News video with Ted Russell at his exhibition of early Dylan photos in NYC. It… Read More

A fine way to celebrate Bob Dylan’s birthday today would be to see Ted Russell’s photographs of Dylan on exhibit… Read More

It was great to be at the Washington launch of Make Trouble, John Waters’ new book. John was interviewed by… Read More

Bob Dylan’s Early Days in New York By John Leland Apr. 17, 2017 “It’s kind of a long story,” Ted… Read More

This Thursday the first exhibition in Los Angeles of Nalinee Darmrong’s photographs of The Smiths opens on Sunset Blvd at… Read More