Last winter, Christy McWilson found herself at a crossroads. The country-rock band she fronted for ten years, the Picketts, had ground nearly to a halt. But she was still writing, and had recorded early versions of a new batch of […]
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One night just after he’d quit starving in Nashville, but long before he’d settled into a comfortable house in the country with his third wife, Hank Cochran sat alone in the office of the small publishing company he worked for. […]
Before sing-alongs became merely another tedious means of stretching out a concert, before music was done to people instead of by people, before Kenny Chesney was celebrated as the Knoxville area’s shining musical light, Guy Carawan sat in New Market, […]
X was the American Clash. During a brief window between 1976 and 1981, when the definitions of punk rock were still up for grabs, X and the Clash took the broadest possible approach. They didn’t accept the narrow view that […]
Not to imply that my son’s paternity was ever in question, but it became beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt clear that Jace is my flesh and blood when, at the completion of his inaugural crawl towards one of the CD racks, he yanked out […]
The 1990s weren’t so bad for some of the country singers who used to rule the airwaves, despite their virtual disappearance from mainstream country radio. Loyal long-term fans, younger alternative country audiences, and sporadic but intense interest from the media […]
For all the time spent writing and rewriting, learning and relearning, searching and researching, endlessly following that long and winding road traveled by those whose lives are mesmerized by music…it is, ultimately, a matter of the moment. Craft and practice […]
One wall in Marlee MacLeod’s home office is dominated by a large, laminated map of the United States. Black, green and red markered paths denote tours. Self-stick stars adorn cities MacLeod has played; there are veritable constellations, the vast majority […]
Survive long enough as a musician and the trends are bound to come around your way again. So it goes for Ray Condo, who now finds himself playing the kind of music he loved growing up in ’50s and early […]
Though the Rivergods have a long history, their current lineup has been together for less than a year. Capsule, their first album, has been out only a few months, but they believe they’ve already outgrown the record. “It feels that […]
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