“I tell bands I record with today that if you can quit playing music, you probably should,” says Eric Ambel. “But that was never an option for me.” Over the course of three decades, Ambel has been, among other things: […]
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Kilkenny is a small medieval city in Southeast Ireland, noted more for the prowess of its hurling team than as a notable musical landmark. (Hurling is Ireland’s native field sport, played by teams of fifteen using curved wooden sticks or […]
“I’ve never seen anyone open their mouth that wide,” one suitably stunned patron says of Shannon Wright, and it’s true. When Wright reaches for one of the bellowing climaxes that pepper her idiosyncratic lullabies and folk-drone anthems, she throws her […]
While smoking pot isn’t technically legal in Vancouver, you can pretty much puff away without anyone, including the cops, giving you a hard time. Marijuana is the west coast of Canada’s #1 cash crop, which means scoring is no more […]
It’s been a hoot reading some of the reviews of Graham Parker’s latest album, Your Country, especially those that accuse the British-born, New York-based singer of jumping on the alt-country bandwagon. With all due respect to the venerable and puissant […]
When Del McCoury introduced his band, he pointed out that his two sons — mandolinist Ronnie and banjoist Rob — had been born a quarter-mile away at the York Hospital. Del then said hello to a dozen siblings and in-laws […]
It was just before 2pm on Sunday afternoon that a seismic shift very nearly overtook Merlefest in its 17th year. On the far corner of the festival grounds at Wilkes Community College in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains […]
Songwriter-guitarist Dave Kirby died of cancer April 17. The husband of singer Leona Williams, Kirby was best-known for co-writing such songs as “Is Anybody Goin’ To San Antone”, “Memories To Burn” and “There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang”. He was […]
Renowned as a firecracker performer with little regard for his health, the future or musical fashion, Ray Condo was just shy of his 54th birthday when he died of a heart attack in Vancouver on April 15. Born Ray Tremblay […]
Over a decade after its debut, the All Music Guide website and print editions are the be-all, end-all for fans, collectors, journalists and researchers. The Second Edition of their Guide To Country proclaims that it “reviews and rates 10,281 recordings […]
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