Roots music, that blend of folk, blues and country, served as the building blocks for much of the popular music of the 20th century. In Romancing The Folk, Benjamin Filene examines the history of the American folk music tradition, and […]
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Randy Casey is driven like a man with a life’s calling; it just gets a little tricky trying to figure out what that calling is. He’s an outstanding cook, an avid sports fan, a gardener, and, yes, a musician. He’s […]
The songwriter bemoaned the state of popular music, which marginalized the serious artist and glorified the shallow and inane: “I could hire out to the other side, the big money side….But I decided a long time ago that I’d starve […]
August found the heart of Austin, Texas, beating in a mournfully irregular fashion after the loss on August 20 of John “Mambo” Treanor, arguably the city’s most prolific, eccentric and best-loved drummer. Mambo, 48, died after what is usually referred […]
Festivals Acadiens in Lafayette, Louisiana, is held annually over the third weekend in September. After the events of the 11th, organizers consulted with local police and clergy, then declared their intention to proceed with this year’s festival. Their press release […]
“When you were alive/I was never alone/Somewhere in the world/There was something called home.” Rhymes, plainspoken and plainly felt, open the last song of Last Man On Earth, the 19th album by Loudon Wainwright III, his first set of new […]
Managers rarely achieve notoriety beyond the backrooms and boardrooms of the entertainment industry, but the rotund Colonel Tom Parker would have been a compelling character had Elvis Presley and rock ‘n’ roll been the flash in the pan everybody once […]
Kitty Wells, the Queen of Country Music, went to Georgia in 1974 to record with members of Allman Brothers and the Marshall Tucker Band. It was the first time a big-name country hitmaker had cut an entire album with a […]
“It’s a weird thing in the Information Age. There are people that know more about what you’ve done than you do,” says a chuckling Kevin Salem. “Like, I had forgotten that I had ever done anything with the Silos.” You […]
Song dogs, according to legend, are a canine breed that lived at the dawn of creation and howled their despair at the heavens. Canadian singer Jimmy Rankin dubbed his debut solo album Song Dog in honor of those four-legged singers. […]
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