Summer tour starts this Saturday in Kansas City! Click over to http://trampledbyturtles.com/ for full details. We’ll also be hitting Crested Butte, Steamboat Springs, Jackson Hole, Ketchum, High Sierra Fest, Salt Lake City, Rochester MN, Denali, Anchorage, Haines, Skagway, Juneau, Sitka, […]
Mark Chesnutt – Outlaw (Saguaro Road, 2010) Like many fine artists discarded by the mainstream Country music machine, Mark Chesnutt’s artistry has grown even as his commercial fame has waned. Having parted with his last major label (Columbia) after an […]
Clint Eastwood – Cowboy Favorites (Collectors’ Choice, 2010 Reissue) With so much incredible material in the Cameo-Parkway vault, most of which hasn’t seen reissue in fifty years, one has to wonder why Collectors’ Choice decided to make this 1963 television […]
Anderson Fair Retail Restaurant is a legendary Venue in Houston, Texas that has featured great Americana and Folk music for over forty years. Some of the artists that got their start at this iconic venue include Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovett, […]
From CountryMusicPride – 6/21/10 by Jim Simpson Out of the wilds of Idaho and Alaska, Megan McCormick has settled in Nashville. Her fiery debut, Honest Words, hits you from the opener, “Shiver”, a down-and-dirty song of obsession and addiction, and […]
Find more photos like this on Americana and roots music – No Depression The last show of Richard Thompson’s Meltdown Festival 2010 was last night – Broken Bells, with Lone Wolf opening to a full (maybe not quite sold out) […]
The Avett Brothers have confirmed a few fall dates. Highlights include two Midwest shows with Grace Potter & The Nocturnals and an appearance at New York’s Radio City Music Hall (10/13). This is the first time the Avett Brothers have […]
I had the recent good fortune to, not only listen to Mary Gauthier’s new album “The Foundling,” but talk to her about it. I’m running a contest right now at my blog (Katie Darby Recommends) to give away a copy […]
It would be awkward to describe John Prine as an elder statesmen of Americana music, American songwriting, or anything else. This is not because Prine lacks the talent, credentials, and history to deserve such a title (or one with more […]
I saw Willie Nelson for the first time in my life a few weeks ago. Like many folks here I am a huge fan of Mr Nelson yet I left the concert disappointed. Here’s the review of the gig I […]
