On January 7, Susan Cowsill opened her monthly Carrollton Station show with Lucinda Williams’ “Drunken Angel”, dedicated to her brother Barry. He had remained in his longtime home New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina bore down on the city, and he […]
If the death of a parent can leave the survivor unmoored in a sea of questions and doubts, the passing of a beloved stepmother, father and mother within little more than two years must have felt like drowning. Yet Rosanne […]
She was born Louise Certain, near Lebanon, Tennessee, not far from Nashville — and certain and focused she would be. The first woman to be a full-time manager of a major act in the history of country music, she was […]
Singer-songwriter BRYAN HARVEY, who led the guitar/drums duo House Of Freaks in the 1980s and later played in the alt-rock supergroup Gutterball, was found brutally murdered in his Richmond, Virginia, home along with his wife and two daughters on January […]
JANETTE CARTER, the last surviving child of Carter Family founders A.P. and Sara Carter, died January 22 in Kingsport, Tennessee, after a long battle with various illnesses. She was 82. Janette and her brother Joe, who died in March 2005, […]
Poison Idea guitarist Thomas Roberts, better known as PIG CHAMPION, was found dead in his Portland, Oregon, home on January 30th. He was 47.
As much as I am drawn to Steve Earles music and re-spect the work hes done this last decade to rebuild himself, its hard to guess why there need be a second biography on the heels of Lauren St Johns […]
It could be no more amusing or surreal: Snow falling, indoors, onto the stage of a high school auditorium in small-town Illinois, making a Neville brother, exiled from New Orleans, flick flakes from his shoulder while singing the praises of […]
Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska is not the most obvious choice for a tribute concert — or any concert. As far as I know, Springsteen himself has never attempted what the New York Guitar Festival presented on the opening night […]
It’s about time. I mean, sure, it was good to see Bonnie Raitt and her band in town and on this stage, which she referred to as “hallowed ground,” on the face of it. But what I’m reporting is that […]
