I’ve seen Hot Club of Cowtown a couple of times in the last year or so and have thoroughly enjoyed them – the clincher on this 520 mile round trip (it was a weekend, thank goodness) was the first UK […]
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(Originally published Dec. 30, 2009, CountryMusicPride.com) Some artists sneak up on you from out of the haze of a purple dusk, tap you on the shoulder and hand you a precious box. Tiny Television’s Mission Statement (Magnolia Records, 2009) is […]
(Originally published Jan. 15, 2010, CountryMusicPride.com) It’s been eight years since Freedy Johnston’s last album, so what does he open with on this new one but an accordion and a ukulele. Welcome back Freedy, welcome back. Recorded in Nashville at […]
My blog is at: semi-regular raves ‘n’ rants. Alejandro Escovedo bolted into his show at The Jewish Mother Saturday night counting “1,2,3,4” and leading his band into the bracing rock of “Always a Friend,” perhaps the catchiest and most ear-friendly […]
Springfield MA music writer/..broadcaster/..screenwriter Donnie Moorehouse chose the top 5 local releases for 2009 in this weeks “Weekend” section of the Springfield Republican… LiveWire Awards: 2009’s Best Local Discs By Donnie Moorhouse January 14, 2010, 8:50AM Looking back, it was […]
Gifted with the opportunity to write press materials for Patty Griffin’s upcoming release, Downtown Church, I took the excuse to load a bunch of classic Specialty golden age gospel reissues onto that newfangled iTouch which continues to confuse and confound […]
www.nocomebacks.co.uk I fully expected to hate this: two ageing Brits in cowboy hats, one ageing Texan whose star has long faded, a bunch of singing cowboy songs and a drum machine. What can go right? I mean, I’ve been to […]
http://www.myspace.com/johnsieger John Sieger, from Milwaukee, has been through several incarnations as musician and band leader and along the way has produced several albums under his own name. His previous offering, ‘The Shaming of the True’, was the first time I’d […]
I apologize for not posting here much lately. I had to return to work shortly after the first of the year and have been chasing a major political story here in my town for the paper ever since. The story […]
Rosanne Cash at the Lensic Theater, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 10, 2010 by Amy Airheart Bianco Rosanne Cash graced our fair city with a remarkable concert this past Sunday night. I was excited to see Rosanne, because she has […]
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