Maybe Janet Bean learned a lesson from Louisville homeboy Muhammad Ali — her first solo album floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. The element of sonic surprise draws the listener in, as arrangements benefit from the textures […]
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Jimmy Ryan is one of those names woven into the fabric of Americana music. He’s not atop the marquee, mind you, a la Lucinda Williams or Buddy Miller, but his contributions are considerable. He’s perhaps best-known as one of the […]
It’s only natural for young composers to dream of one day meeting their musical idols. But not many take matters into their own determined hands the way Lizzie West did three years ago, when — with her dog Figaro and […]
There are eclectic artists and then there is Maria McKee. She first emerged as the teenage dynamo fronting mid-’80s roots-rock hope Lone Justice with that voice and them moves and those looks. Few bands showed so much promise and remain […]
For a lot of visitors to the northern Mississippi hill country, more than a man, and more than a musician, passed when Otha Turner died on February 27 at age 94. Mr. Otha — and he was known, respectfully, as […]
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