(Jambands.com) Suze Rotolo, who accompanied Bob Dylan on the cover of his second record Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, passed away on Friday after a long illness. Rotolo, 67, died in her Noho apartment, just a short distance from where the photo for […]
Song Story #2: Kaithola by Melody Walker While attending college in 2007, I wrote a grant which allowed me to travel to Kerala, India to study music for one month. I wanted to learn the South Indian or “Carnatic” […]
As anyone who got within earshot of me can attest, by the end of SxSW last year I had had it. Austin had defeated me. I was tired of being drunk, tired of walking and just plain tired. In a […]
Ok, so anyone who even remotely knows me knows that my love of Justin Townes Earle is no secret. When people ask me why he’s one of my favorite musicians out there these days I often reply with: imagine Hank […]
Raven Kristina Stykos with Phillip Aaberg Sweetgrass Music – 12-15- 2010 It’s not often that the poetry of words can be so well matched with its counterpart in sound and no one does this better than […]
At first I was a little disappointed that the “new” car I bought following my accident didn’t come equipped with a CD player. While not an essential by any means, I have always loved listening to my favorite albums in […]
Slithering Beast Delicious EP Self-release/cdbaby ***1/2 Soulful Southern Boogie to get your little feet twitching Formed in 2006 by Louisville singer-songwriter Nick Dittmeier; Slithering Beast is the collective name for an assortment of his friends and associates in […]
Canadian singer/songwriter Diana Pops makes a provocative and promising first impression with her recently released debut EP, For Bright Minds In Dark Corners. With her own rich piano playing at the forefront, she draws on rock, classical and melodic-pop elements […]
It has been announced that California Country Singer/Songwriter Terry Hanson has been nominated by the Los Angeles Music Awards for “Country Artist Of The Year” 2011. Terry Hanson will receive his nomination at The LAMA Showcase Series @ The Whiskey […]
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican February 25, 2011 Johnny Cash was no stranger to gunfighter ballads, but I only recently learned that at one point, fairly early in his career, he also took […]
