It’s too easy to say it was Texas-hot on a day when New York City hosted a mini-Flatlanders reunion. Still, it was pretty damn hot — enough that you could watch an older gentleman in a kid-sized cowboy hat attempting […]
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The evening began with Chicagoans witnessing one of the city’s most beautiful sunsets in memory; everywhere in the club, people were talking about it. The clouds were brilliant with purple, orange and pink, and shifting edges of gleaming sunlight. The […]
Yeah, it’s a little weird seeing Scott Miller perform in his civilian clothes — that is, in jeans and a work shirt, rather than the navy blue suit he generally dons with his band, the V-Roys. But long before co-founding […]
“Bound For Glory”, North America’s longest-running live folk radio concert, has hosted hundreds of performers in its 32-year history. It’s unlikely, however, that many of them have matched the intensity of David Olney, the Nashville-based songwriter who was making his […]
Next to the new Star Wars movie coming to town, the return of Mark Mulcahy was going to be pretty small cheese. Still, considering how little is known of his former band Miracle Legion on this side of the Atlantic, […]
Josh Rouse’s recent performances with a full band, such as his showcase at this year’s South By Southwest music conference, have been about as engaging as a Senate subcommittee hearing on retail sales tax adjustments, beset by underdeveloped melodies, lightweight […]
One of the great joys provided by this here magazine is being able to routinely “discover” killer regional musicians who, for any number of reasons, have managed to avoid wider exposure. Surely one such “buried treasure” is Joe Price A […]
Radio is, of course, a problem. For much of this quickly dissipating century, at least some of the important and ultimately lasting music of the day has been available, for free, to anyone within earshot of a receiver. And that […]
It’s 1991, and Jim Lauderdale is calling a friend long distance from a pay phone in the pool room of the Double Door bar in Charlotte, North Carolina. The friend is Emmylou Harris, whose prominent harmony vocals grace a Lauderdale […]
People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. — James Baldwin George Jones was sure he’d finally found it. After […]
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