Heaven Pinetop Perkins Blind Pig April 17, 2012 By Grant Britt Merle Haggard never had much use for piano players. “Can’t get ’em to play what they’re supposed to play,” he said in a ’95 interview. “They play everything on […]
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James Maddock – CD Review – Wake Up and Dream – Casa del Fuego Release While driving to work one morning I turned on the Centenary College FM radio station WNTI and was pleasantly surprised by the tune they were playing. […]
Steep Canyon Rangers, the band who backed Steve Martin in 2010 as the Merlefest headliners will play on the Watson Stage this Friday by themselves as one of the festival’s knee deep chart of premier performers before heading off to […]
Hello music lovers! As a musician from Belgium (of all places!), I recently (self-)released ‘The Roadmaster’, a tribute CD to Spooner Oldham, the legendary keyboard player and songwriter from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. I recorded the album with Holland’s Sunset Travelers and traveled to […]
My CD collection is heavy on honky tonk, the tail-shaking blues and soul infused variety. Many of my favorite love songs come cloaked in cynical wit and delivered with just the right amount of bad boy swagger, with vocals that […]
It was surprising to find, amidst the glitz and glitter of Las Vegas, a band playing with honest passion and emotions. However, that’s what Vintage Trouble, a band from Los Angeles (no less) displayed during their near 90-minute set of […]
Carole King – The Legendary Demos (Hear, 2012) Demos are an industry currency that fans don’t often get to hear. They’re an audio notebook in which songwriters sketch their vision, either for themselves, or more intriguingly, for those to whom […]
It’s hard to be objective when the first song on Magpie Parables, “Sundance Squares”, opens with all the roots music things that get me worked up: the standard, feel-good chord progression of I-V-vi/IV-I-V; a low, growling voice relieved by clear, […]
Louisiana is an eclectic melting pot of conservatism and oil industry execs mixed with innovative, eco-friendly artists. It’s no secret that Santorum won over the state, yet despite cuts in arts funding, from the Sazerac-infused community emerges a strong-willed and […]
“Merlefest always attracts such a diverse range of artists, the people that come to see that kind of line-up want to experience so many types of music; Merlefest really shows the people who are working at their music and bringing […]
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