Like much of public Nashville, Lower Broadway is a theme park in transition. Soon the Country Music Foundation will move in alongside Planet Hollywood, NASCAR Cafe, Hard Rock Cafe, the Nashville Arena, the Ryman Auditorium, and, around the corner on […]
Given that the Skydiggers are a product of the same mid-’80s Toronto scene that spawned Blue Rodeo and Cowboy Junkies, fans of the band should be forgiven for being alarmed at the opening moments of their fifth and latest album, […]
*Editor’s Note: Ralph Stanley passed away at his home, “in the same mountains of southwestern Virginia where he was born in February 1927,” according to a press release from the IBMA. To honor his memory, we’re re-running this cover story from […]
A year gone now, and the feedback, found harmonies, slurred melodies, two-step sweat, covers of Townes Van Zandt and Richard Thompson and George Jones, the stick-to-your-teeth St. Louis pizza, the fifth beer someone bought you, the intense connection between people […]
Drug addictions, jail time, failed marriages, controversial political stances, quick-witted good ol’ boy viewpoints…sounds like a good mini-series, doesn’t it? One day it just might be, but until then, much of it can be found in Steve Earle In Quotes. […]
As with “Kashmir’s Corn” in the starlight of 4 a.m., Victoria Williams nourished her fans with homely kernels, familiar and essential as the horse’s own. The surroundings were not the desert night, but rather the spiffy tiers and rolled banquettes, […]
“Many go out for wool and come home shorn” was the admonition from the Old Farmer’s Almanac on Thursday, March 26. But Cheri Knight had her own oddments of wisdom to share over the course of her striking, if too-short, […]
When you get the chance to see a genuine honky-tonk hero like Willie Nelson at a genuine honky-tonk (or at least what passes for one in Manhattan), you run. When you get a chance to see two genuine honky-tonk heroes […]
Former Columbia Records chief Don Law rejected Ray Price 20 times before finally signing him in 1951. Nearly a half-century later, the country crooner had no problem hooking the 500 folks at the Little Nashville Opry and reeling them in […]
It’s South by Southwest weekend in Austin, Texas, the year’s biggest gathering of up-and-coming musical acts, with more than 800 artists crammed into three dozen or so clubs, bars, coffeehouses and parking lots over a five-day stretch. Daytime parties and […]
