A girl named Jenny lights her cigarette. She’s on the wrong side of town. It’s Saturday night. Ben Nichols opens up his car door and promises her an escape before it turns dawn. Will they drive down Thunder Road, too? […]
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“When I’m writing it’s the same thing as when I’m listening to a record. I’m listening to myself,” says Graham Lindsey. “Finally giving myself a chance to sit down and shut up. You never know what is going to come […]
THE PLAYER’S THE THING: The INTERNATIONAL BLUEGRASS MUSIC ASSOCIATION held its annual “World of Bluegrass” week September 25 through October 1 in Nashville, its second year in Music City after many years in Kentucky. The series of panel discussions, performances, […]
If I were to perish prematurely (and I can’t imagine it happening any other way), the music running through my brain would likely be the title cut to Michael Hall’s The Song He Was Listening To When He Died. Like […]
Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium is often called the Mother Church of Country Music. Tonight’s congregants include J.D. Crowe, Don Rigsby, Hazel Dickens, and Bryan Sutton, all gathering in late September to celebrate the release of Bradley Walker’s debut disc Highway Of […]
Before 2006, it was a stumper: What performer, raised hanging out in places such as Louis Armstrong’s house, has sung with Rosanne Cash, David Bowie, Al Green, Steely Dan and Dolly Parton? (You’ve got to love that resume.) New York […]
Everything I really need to know about Johnny Cash can be found among his records and in the steady, proud gaze with which he greeted the camera. I don’t doubt that he was also a difficult, troubled, troubling man; that, […]
“At the time I thought I wanted to be a poet, but what I was discovering was that I wanted to use my mind to create things.” –Joe Pernice Every writer, some writers will tell you, has an ideal reader, […]
Micah P. Hinson did OK by his 2004 debut full-length, Micah P. Hinson And The Gospel Of Progress. With his weathered voice and melancholy originals, the young Texan earned wide critical acclaim — particularly in Europe — and shared bills […]
Mucklewain was billed as a Southern American Rock Festival, and it had the sprawling, lively, and Tennessee-heavy roster to back up all parts of that claim. But it may have been three guys from way the hell up north that […]
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