The timing was too perfect not to be deliberate. It was as though Canada Post had expressly arranged to end the postal strike in order that this CD arrive in my mailbox during the Calgary Stampede. What better time to […]
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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings interview Part II By Douglas Heselgrave In the first part of this interview, Gillian and David discussed how they first got interested in roots music, their early acceptance from the ‘hard core’ bluegrass community […]
Ok, I’m pretty damn late to the Tune-Yards party (and, sorry, I refuse to use the tUnE-yArDs typography preferred by Merrill Garbus, the creative force behind the project.) As a somewhat insular roots music fan, I don’t spend a lot […]
Talking with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival Part One July 15, 2011 Vancouver By Douglas Heselgrave Gillian Welch and David Rawlings on the Main […]
Rev. Peyton is one of the greats in modern Country Blues! Have seen him several times here in his home state- always a great show! This’ll be a great album!
So, a couple of months after the Great Escape, I headed some 700 miles north and west for my second festival of the year… My first visit to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides for […]
Shannon McNally could be like one of those characters in Treme, the critically acclaimed HBO series about New Orleans musicians surviving in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Actually, Shannon McNally should be one of those characters. She already knows the […]
At the wonderful Songwriter Festival in Visby I enjoyed sharing the stage with friends. Here’s an impromptu version of Way Down with Annika Fehling – who organized the festival and wrote the song with me – and my friend A.P. […]
What Grayson Capps brings to country music, if you can call it that, is a real sense of danger. From the first of “Highway 42,” a tune that jangles like a loose fender, I was thinking about those long-haired […]
As the resident curmudgeon emeritus I claim the right to vent here and again. As one of the co-founders of what once was a music magazine in print and all that foolishness I like to imagine that my music geek […]
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