Lots of newness to celebrate this week! We’ve got new music from Jonathan Byrd, The Hillbenders, Mark Knopfler, and more — plus a brand new edition of our print journal! The Fall-Winter issue explores past innovations that shaped how we […]
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Mark Knopfler is not busy chasing the music world and whatever is in favor at any given moment. He’s never operated within parameters or had to draw people in and appeal to the masses. Nimble-fingered and slick-handed, he’s focused on […]
Paul Burch is one of those artists who I love because he brings a unique sound and perspective to everything he records. Whether he honors Southern soul, Buddy Holly, or, most recently on Meridian Rising, imagines a musical autobiography from the perspective of Jimmie Rodgers, […]
Fish were jumpin’ when T Bone Burnett conducted his first conference call with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant to discuss making an album together. The famed producer was up in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the Capilano Salmon Hatchery, perhaps thinking […]
As a very small girl, Kimmie Rhodes was taught to sing by her dad, which sounds like a normal, sweet interaction between a father and a daughter doesn’t it? For Kimmie, it was different. Her father had been orphaned during […]
As Ian Tyson approaches his 82nd birthday Sept. 25, don’t presume for a minute that he is no more than a tired, over-the-hill folksinger who once penned a great song, “Four Strong Winds,” as part of a long-gone duo Ian & […]
When Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow” won Song of the Year at the CMAs last year, it was heralded as something of a miracle, with Musgraves herself arriving at the podium and exclaiming, “Do you guys realize what this means […]
The Wailin’ Jennys could’ve been the Kardashians of Canada. If only … • They were three sisters, which they are, but just in the figurative, quote-unquote sense. (Besides that, one of them was born in Maine.) • They fought like cats […]
Because he writes mostly character-driven songs, it’s difficult to know just how much Mark Knopfler imbues a painter who lusts after more vivid colors in “Let It All Go” with his own attitudes and attributes. Yet it’s easy to read […]
Mark Knopfler’s often beautiful and affecting third solo album is about exile. It’s not about the exile forced by war or famine, but by the natural progression of ordinary life. “Why Aye Man”, the opening tune, could have anchored a […]
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