One bitter night in 1997, the Backsliders played the leading edge of a snowstorm at Schubas Tavern in Chicago for ten souls with less sense than love for rock ‘n’ roll. Like the Southern sun, the stage lights echoed from […]
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It’s a typical follow-your-dream story. Rob Stroup was in tenth grade and Matt Brown in eighth when they started playing music together in the small town of Newberg, Oregon. Brown went off to Denton, Texas, for college, where he caught […]
Dave Moore has been something of an enigma throughout his career. A singer of great warmth, resonance and passion, a songwriter of startling clarity, and a masterful musician on guitar, harmonica and button accordion, Moore, has nevertheless remained in the […]
“When I was in junior high, one of my teachers said to my parents, ‘I think your kid’s got the calling,’” says Johny Huber. “And I think they thought I was going to be a preacher or something. A couple […]
Gravel-throated growler Gary Floyd was quite a fixture on the San Francisco — make that American — rock scene for several years, first with his Texas-transplant punk juggernaut the Dicks, later with the idiosyncratic Sister Double Happiness. When the husky […]
I’m proud to say I’m a bluegrass singing man For it’s a lonesome sound, and the music of our land I’ve worked that hard road, played a lot of shows I sung many a song with Mr. Bill Monroe I’m […]
It’s tough, gritty, heavily influenced by displaced Appalachia, and never takes itself too seriously. The music of Johnny Smoke is a lot like the city of Dayton. The band has been around Dayton in various incarnations since 1995. The current […]
Last October, Sire Records threw a party 30 miles outside Nashville to showcase Mandy Barnett’s nearly completed album, I’ve Got A Right To Cry. The event took place at Bradley’s Barn, the renowned recording studio of the project’s producer, the […]
Mary Lee Kortes didn’t come to New York City to be a singer. The Whitefish, Montana, native wanted to be a book editor. But jobs in New York’s publishing business are notoriously hard to get. “Look what Jackie O had […]
Although most storytellers understand that one of the first principles of writing is to write about what you know, putting that dictum into practice can be a tricky proposition. When conveying a sense of place, it often helps to get […]
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