Nov 012011
 

Last year to celebrate Halloween, Amanda Palmer held a Dresden Dolls reunion show in New York City. This year she hit the other coast, appearing on a taping of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. She brought along Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields, Moby, and husband Neil Gaiman for a cover of Rocky Horror’s “Science Fiction/Double Feature.” Continue reading »

Oct 052010
 

Rosanne Cash stopped by The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last night to promote her new memoir Composed. Proving that her story contains much more than just a famous lineage, she performed the folk traditional “Motherless Children.” Her cover first appeared on her 2009 album The List, but seeing it live with a finger-picking guitarist makes it all the more devastating. She describes it as a “wrist-slasher.” Well put.

Ferguson conducts a lengthy interview with Cash before the performance. She provides some pretty colorful anecdotes—talking about snakes, cleavage, and Norwegian covers of her dad’s songs. She also talks about following Ferguson on Twitter (adorably, she pronounces it “tweeter”). “You talk about your pants a lot,” she notes. Zing! Continue reading »