I’ll never look at the Waffle House the same way. The one out by the Assault & Battery Lane exit, 65 South out of Nashville, called Harding Place before the name change. It’s actually on Sidco Drive, a parallel runner […]
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Earl Scruggs, known as the pioneer of the 3-finger banjo style, has died at the age of 88. Before Scruggs, the banjo was played in a claw-hammer fashion. Pioneering a new way to play, Scruggs added metal picks onto the […]
This is just a very quick post to let you know Earl Scruggs has died. The legendary banjo picker, who created and defined Scruggs’ Style banjo playing, died this morning in Nashville, at the age of 88. I saw Scruggs […]
Whew – just found out about this a little while ago… this is a hard one… a truly sad day… Earl, our prayers and our hearts go with you. ________________________________ more here
Unlike the thousands of Beatle cover bands playing their hearts out every night at Japanese sushi bars, Irish pubs and Holiday Inns all thoughout the Upper Midwest, these guys on the left don’t even pretend to look like John, Paul, […]
Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Perhaps not the first place you think of when you thinking of teeming indie scenes or even Americana music. But why not? The wide open spaces, the dramatic profile of the Grand Tetons and vast sweeps of […]
First published on Blogcritics.org. It is true that as often as not live performance albums don’t measure up to studio recordings—production values may be limited, there are no retakes for performance flaws, comic banter, planned or ad lib may not […]
A review by Douglas Heselgrave The most recent release of informal music from Ravi Shankar may be the 92 year old sitarist’s best recording ever It is hard to remember the last time I enjoyed listening to a CD as […]
Omar and The Howlers Essential Collection RUF Records *** AH Too much of a good thing? A couple of years ago, a friend made me a ‘Best of’ Omar & the Howlers to play in the car […]
Nanci Griffith Sage GatesheadThursday 22nd March 2012 Alan Harrison Opening act, the Kennedys, had a nice line in Country-folk with a quaintly English edge to it and songs like When I go and The Midnight Ghost, which was based on […]
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