2005

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 […]

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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 […]

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“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 […]

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TOWNES WITHOUT PITY: It has probably been said before that the life of TOWNES VAN ZANDT could make a heck of a feature film, but who would believe it was nonfiction? So perhaps filmmaker Margaret Brown’s decision to tell Townes’ […]

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History hasn’t truly recognized the Browns (Jim Ed, Bonnie and Maxine), the trio of Arkansas siblings whose 1959 single “The Three Bells” became one of the Nashville Sound era’s biggest crossover success stories. Their hit streak wasn’t lengthy, lasting roughly […]

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“Little” Milton Campbell, who thrived in East St. Louis and kept the blues flame burning among black audiences in the south for years, died in his sleep on August 4 after suffering a massive stroke. It’s a mystery why he […]

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One of pop music’s most beloved myths is the one about how the Beatles brought rock ‘n’ roll back from the dead. It goes something like this… Rock ‘n’ roll passed away on or about February 2, 1959, when Buddy […]

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Twenty years ago in a near-empty hotel bar in Columbus, Ohio, I nervously laid out 25 black-and-white prints in front a photojournalism god — a picture editor — who, for a bit of groveling and a cold beer, agreed to […]

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