One year, just before the International Bluegrass Music Association left Louisville’s Galt House hotel complex for Nashville, the Avett Brothers were invited to join the festivities. “For three or four days the hotel is bluegrass central,” remembers bassist Bob Crawford. […]
Since the release of her self-titled Rounder debut in 2004, Alecia Nugent’s pretty much heard it all — the bluegrass “rules” that insist an artist is supposed to play an instrument; that a bluegrass album is supposed to have banjo […]
“I got a rock.” When Charlie Brown first uttered those words one fateful Halloween, he sounded crushed. But for Seattle producer and engineer Tucker Martine, the exact same discovery — albeit many years later — triggered an epiphany. As a […]
1 Wilco, Kicking Television: Live In Chicago (Nonesuch) 2 My Morning Jacket, Z (ATO) 3 Neil Young, Prairie Wind (Reprise) 4 Johnny Cash, The Legend Of (Hip-O) 5 Ryan Adams, 29 (Lost Highway) 6 Sufjan Stevens, Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty) 7 […]
It’s about the music: And, “It’s about finding the answer” I wanted to voice my appreciation for your words in the January-February 2006 issue of your fantastic publication. I’ve not been subscribing to your magazine for long, arriving at your […]
I never imagined, when I spent a brief stretch fifteen years ago doing some volunteer work at PopLlama Records shortly after I’d moved to Seattle (the first time), that one day I’d be doing some volunteer work taking care of […]
Margaret Brown’s first film, Be Here To Love Me (Palm), is a flowing, lyrical, often revealing and complexly saddening exploration of the life of Townes Van Zandt, a strong cinematic experience that’s bound to last, and welcome as such in […]
KEEP ON TRUCKIN’: Showing no signs of slowing down, the DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS release their fourth album in the past five years on April 25 when New West Records issues A Blessing And A Curse, the Athens, Georgia, band’s seventh disc […]
Considering his nickname, “Wicked Pickett,” some might have expected soul giant Wilson Pickett to go out in a blaze of infamy. But those who witnessed his frenetic live performances were probably less surprised to learn he passed of a heart […]
In its dirty little heart, pop music is cannibalistic and no respecter of tradition. But country music exists in a world where the relationships — between rural and urban, old and new south — have become scrambled, hard to read. […]
