If you’re going to write about Steve Earle, we here at Turnstyled, Junkpiled believe, it best be done with some balls. So, we’re kicking off the debut of our new journalism approach series “Sometimes the Song Writes You,” with an […]
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Alan J Taylor met up with Richmond Fontaine’s Willy Vlautin recently at the Greystones, Sheffield, UK. Just after the release of We Used To Think The Highway Sounded Like A River, Richmond Fontaine’s front man and principle song writer […]
Recorded in East Nashville, TN, third studio album is “electric folk for our times”; Taxi Plays Americana Music Festival in Nashville in October. Guests include Tim O’Brien, Barry Sless, and Elizabeth Cook. NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Great American Taxi marks its sixth […]
Walking up to meet Jonny Corndawg at a local food cart pod just over a week ago felt akin to stumbling into some kind of reverse Where’s Waldo book. Up until last week the only interaction I had had with the man was […]
Slaid Cleaves may not be a natural-born Texan (He’s originally from Portland, Maine. He has been in Texas for 20 years, though.), but he knows a thing or two about a thing or two. For starters, he knows about songwriting, […]
George Jones, a legendary country music singer of our time, recorded the theme song for the upcoming episode of Squidbillies premiering, Sunday, Oct. 2 at 11:45 p.m. (ET, PT) on Adult Swim. Watch behind-the-scenes footage of George Jones singing the […]
The penultimate show of a demanding two month long tour of the UK and part of continental Europe saw Po’ Girl play in front of a sold out crowd in Lewes, East Sussex. The evening, promoted by the (local) Union […]
Find more photos like this on Americana and roots music – No Depression Richmond Fontaine The Cluny, Newcastle September 23rd Alan Harrison Following the hate mail I received last year for giving Richmond Fontaine’s POSTCARDS FROM PORTLAND CD a […]
This is the third in a series of blog entries about the songs on the upcoming album “Hello Cruel World”, to be released January 2012. Originally posted at www.gretchenpeters.com/blog. Pelham, New York, 1960s They’re in the front seat, […]
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of seeing Bela Fleck’s Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra with the Nashville Symphony. Overall, the largest impression I was left with is that Bela Fleck is a raging, benevolent maniac. His virtuosity as a […]
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