Nashville singer-songwriter brings the mountain ballad tradition into the present day Jim Lauderdale makes guest appearance; Ketch Secor (Old Crow Medicine Show) co-produced. NASHVILLE, Tenn. — High Atmosphere, the latest album in the remarkable career arc of singer-songwriter/visual artist […]
1.0 As an artist, what’s important to you? Love, truth, soul. 2.0 Tell us about recording your new CD, “Something New.” I worked on it for a couple of years. Most of the time was spent thinking about it rather […]
Aimee Mann announces her first tour of 2011 with a string of spring dates across the east coast beginning in April. Aimee and her three piece band, made up of long time collaborators Paul Bryan and Jamie Edwards, will play […]
Normally, there aren’t very many surprises to be found by going on Facebook in the morning. So and so can’t sleep, this or that movie was great last night, incoherent ramblings from the bottom of a whiskey bottle, etc. This […]
The first album I ever bought (with money saved from bagging groceries at Kwik Chek) was the Webb Pierce Story. Daddy had loved singing along with his song, Wondering, and I loved his honky-tonk records like Honky-Tonkin‘, and Truck Drivin’ […]
The first time Charlie Louvin discovered the young, Merle Travis-style guitarist Ben Hall playing he asked, “When can you go to work with me?” When Hall replied that he couldn’t just yet, as he was studying music at Belmont University, […]
Playlist for A Patchwork Quilt Saturday 5pm-6:30pm Live! February 12, 2011 91.7 fm KALW San Francisco 500 Mansell Street San Francisco CA 94134 http://www.kalw.org Kevin Vance, host & producer kevin_vance@yahoo.com past playlists can be found at http://folkradio.org search archives with […]
Josh Slone is good, real good. He knows how to make a song his and get into it, and make it come alive. Slone has been blessed with a great voice plus the tight high lonesome harmonies are great. […]
Susan Werner is not your stereotypical blues singer. She takes what a guy I used to work with many years ago told me, “The blues ain’t the way you feel, it’s the way you live each day” and turns it […]
Road Trips Volume 4, Number 2 Review by Doug Heselgrave For the third installment of this bootleg series, I’ll take a closer look at a new release from what must be the most often recorded band of all time. […]
