Over the past week or so, while there were some exciting festivals going on in the eastern half of the US, there was an extremely nice one-day celebration of the 75th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. The […]
Friday at Bonnaroo brings not only the first full day of music, but also the opening of the festival’s two main stages, What and Which, allowing for more marquee acts and also the weekend’s first headliner. True to its near […]
Margaret Glaspy is from Califonia but now lives in New York City’s Upper West Side, by way of Boston’s Berklee College of Music. While she was born to two guitarists, she originally took up the fiddle before finally seeing that guitars were her future. […]
Henry Wagons at Blue Mountains Music Festival, Katoomba, NSW, Australia
Henry Wagons at Blue Mountains Music Festival, NSW, Australia
The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival already boasted one of the strongest lineups of roots and Americana music among the major music festivals in 2016, with the likes of Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, and Sam Bush making their way to […]
Before there was Americana, before there was alt-country, there was folk music. Or, as Bill Broonzy once said, “I guess all songs are folk songs, I ain’t heard no horse sing ’em.” This week we have a treat by Jill […]
Exciting live but more intriguing acoustic, Henry Wagons has the look of the 1960 singer/songwriter and the pipes of Cash and Nick Cave. He can plug in and turn it up or settle in with an accoustic as easily as […]
In a previous column on the Grammy awards, I noted some differences between the movie and music industries. Another significant difference occurs during the first two or three months of each year. While Hollywood dumps its dogs during those months, music labels purposefully release many […]
