If Nashville’s majestic Ryman Auditorium, with its long wooden pews and stained-glass windows, is country music’s mother church, then the Station Inn, with its dim lights, battered tables and Hatch Show Print-covered paneling, is that church’s funky basement rec room. […]
By now, it should be apparent that Gary Louris can exist in all sorts of different habitats. A member of the Jayhawks since the mid-late 1980s and the group’s kingpin since 1996, he’s seen the band through multiple lineup shifts […]
The dilemma facing BR549 is a credibility problem: With two original members gone, can this be considered the same group? Taking the stage at Johnny D.’s with Chris Scruggs (yes, he’s related) replacing founding partner Gary Bennett on guitar and […]
The soothing and soulful country of Allison Moorer followed by the roots-cum-British-rock of Marah seemed an odd pairing, but in the end, the dichotomy made this double bill all the more appealing. Backed by a polished lineup, Moorer opened with […]
Neko Case didn’t find it too funny. Her Montreal gig was in the showbar of the city’s Just For Laughs humor museum, but then, in classic touring band fashion, her van gave out. It was near midnight before Case and […]
If you build it, they will come: Delbert McClinton, Tift Merritt, Jerry Douglas, Donna the Buffalo, Los Lobos, Buddy & Julie Miller. And that list barely scratches the surface of the fifty acts who gathered at Louisville’s Slugger Field and […]
It’s somehow appropriate that Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography would see the light of day only after the same sort of high-wire act undertaken by any number of projects released over the years by Young himself. Young agreed to participate in […]
In 1997, at age 82, Alan Lomax signed a contract with Rounder Records that called for the release of over 100 albums of his life’s work. Rounder planned to methodically digitize, organize and release Alan’s field recordings, made from the […]
CONTINUING CIRCLE: It’s the third time around for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, with an October 1 release date set for Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. III. Co-produced by Randy Scruggs and NGDB, the collection will follow the previous […]
At some point in the early 1980s, right about when MTV went from high-risk investment to cultural landmark, magazine publishers decided that words were bad. Well, a few words were OK, so long as they were suitably adorned with colorful […]
