“I feel like we warned people pretty fair. We’d kind of hint that we might make a record like this someday. We tried to brace people a little bit.” In the days before they changed almost everything, things had not […]
0
Until this August, a bluegrass band fledgling enough to be nominated for the IBMA’s “Emerging Artist of the Year” award had never simultaneously been nominated for “Entertainer of the Year” — deemed ready, already, to compete head-on against veteran top-line […]
You might not expect a man who calls himself the Chocolate Genius to make a subtle, understated record, but Marc Anthony Thompson is not easily pigeonholed. Black Yankee Rock, released in October on Commotion Records, completes an ambitious trilogy of […]
Join Coinman wants to talk about his song “The Hero”. Although he’s never enlisted, “The Hero” is his war experience. Having found the place from which to write it, he’s haunted by it, like a crisis he can’t quite seem […]
A cluster of major life changes struck all at once for singer-songwriter Jon Nolan a couple years ago. Say Zuzu, the band Nolan started with his brother and their mutual best friend, broke up after fourteen years and seven albums. […]
Midnight. September 10, 2005. Nashville, Tennessee. Joe McMahan, Kevin Gordon’s guitarist, engineer and co-producer, stands back by the Station Inn bar and watches the John Cowan Band play to a packed room. “I don’t know about this crowd,” he says. […]
For an artist as ethereally inclined as Laura Veirs, it was perhaps not the ideal weekend to be playing her first major Chicago gig. The music density level around town was way high, what with Farm Aid and the Hideout […]
On consecutive August nights at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Neil Young performed the entirety of his new Prairie Wind with close to three dozen musicians coming and going to fulfill the roles they played on the original recordings. Then, after a […]
I’m writing you from the foot heels of a destructive woman named Katrina. The relationship with any woman comes with the excitement of the initial experience and goes with the repercussions of the convergence of forces. Whether or not the […]
We all know well the trials that have beset New Orleans over these past few months. Most of us appreciate the immeasurable contributions that the city has made to America’s music. We’ve also tracked the survival of the city’s most […]
SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
AVAILABLE NOW
AVAILABLE NOW
