Dale Watson is as close as there is these days to a pure, old-fashioned country performer. He looks, dresses, sings and writes the part. Hell, he even acts the part, most recently in a new video for Johnny Cash’s “Folsom […]
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“If you really want to do this right,” says Kevin Kerby, “first you really have to make a lot of money, and then you can do whatever you want. I just cut out the money part.” Mostly what Kerby wants […]
“Being so new in the business means every day is a learning experience,” says Nancy Moore. “I’m really just trying to catch up with myself,” she adds, and though it might sound disingenuous coming from many musicians, it’s an almost […]
It was a sunny Memorial Day, and as boats cruised up the river toward the spires of Georgetown University, a stiff breeze whipped across a temporary stage, perched on an outdoor balcony overlooking the Potomac River. Phil Campbell, a portly […]
You may know this story: A guy writes good songs. He gets a band together. He plays enough shows to get noticed, gradually gathering momentum. Positive press attention and, at last, label interest make the progress seem inexorable. Milwaukee resident […]
Recently while out for a drive, David Wiffen lost control of his car, took out two sections of fence, dodged five hydro poles and slammed into a 7-foot-high hedge. “I held on to the steering wheel for all I’m worth […]
Accordion master Beau Jocque, who recorded five albums for Rounder during the ’90s with his band the Zydeco Hi-Rollers, died Sept. 10 at his home in Kinder, Louisiana. Born Andrus Espre in 1957, he created a hybrid between traditional zydeco […]
In the fall of 1955, Patsy Cline struck up a correspondence with Treva Miller, a teenage country music fan from Tennessee, who wrote offering to set up a fan club. Cline, who’d just released her first single, “A Church, A […]
We are waiting. The light…cuts through the darkened hall, twists, turns…searching for something. It swoops to the rear door, finds its spot. Into the light slides the 13-years-absent Mr. Waits, entourage behind him, pushing up the aisle now, toward the […]
No matter the circumstance, Michael Hurley is a quintessential practitioner of the less-is-more dictum. As a writer of riveting and timeless songs, his phrases are short and potent, in service to verses at once elegantly concise and mysteriously layered. In […]
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