As I’ve detailed in two blog postings elsewhere, the National Endowment for the Arts has proposed in its 2012 budget the end of National Heritage Fellowships and Jazz Masters — both 30 year programs — and Opera Honors (begun only two years ago). […]
Also this week, I’m happy to say Rick Cornell has given me permission to publish his interview with Jason Perlmutter and Brendan Greaves from Carrboro’s Paradise of Bachelors label talking about their recent release, Had A Vision, a compilation of […]
Recently, this community has had a debate about the best country singer. DBT fancies themselves as a rock-n-roll outfit, but I submit that Mike Cooley’s contributions are pure country. As of today, Mike Cooley has to be one of the […]
A “pod” (display case) filled with artifacts associated with the life and career of the late Sam Cooke is now on display at The GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles in recognition of what would have been the late artist’s 80th […]
Outlaw David Allan Coe has made the cover of the UK magazine Country Music People. Dougls McPherson did a 7-page interview with the country music outlaw and pondered the question: “Is David Allan Coe the most interesting man in country […]
Attention purists! Do not click on this article. Just take my word for it that you will not like The Shape of Bluegrass to Come, meaning both the EP by Last False Hope and the future of the bluegrass genre […]
by Nick DeRiso While much of Tony Joe White‘s 2010 recording “The Shine” feels so bare-bones as to be undercooked, the muscular “Tell Me Why” bubbles up with the rough moral drama of a storyteller’s yarn. Still standing, despite years […]
Robert Santelli, a long-time associate editor at Backstreets magazine has developed what has been described as a unique multimedia exhibit for the Smithsonian. This spring, in Asbury Park NJ, this roots music exhibition will be hosted at the Asbury Park […]
Grant Peeples‘ Okra and Ecclesiastes (Gatorbone Records) proves you don’t have to come from Texas to be a great singer/songwriter. Florida’s answer to Ray Wylie Hubbard, Terry Allen and Butch Hancock did go to Texas however to hook up […]
Press release Iggy & the Stooges, Raw Power Live: In the Hands of the Fans, a new live album to be released on April 5, 2011, is the vinyl document of the reformed Stooges’ (Iggy Pop, Scott Asheton, James […]
