(One of a series of essays on each song from ‘The Foundry EP.’) You see, we’re not really giving up redheads. That’s a piece of irony (or what have you). Yes, there was a redhead who was once not kind […]
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Long removed from the promise of the truly stirring Long Black Train, Josh Turner’s new album, Punching Bag, proves that Music Row, Nashville has elevated cliche to art. This album is about as involving as a slice of store brand […]
What does it mean today for an individual to discover a band? Not that many decades ago, I would find new music mostly from what was played on the radio, or possibly what I read about in the press (Rolling […]
The measure of any emerging band seeking fame and fortune in America is the ability to survive any number of Armageddon moments on their first major tour. Or as the Dunwells like to refer to it, their “Lollageddon” incident. The […]
Natural Beardy was fortunate enough to join forces with the Pickathon Music Festival for the 2012 Pickathon Beardy Sessions. Over the course of three scorching days, filled with excellent people and superb music, we filmed a handful of videos that […]
As fantasy football players go, you’re hoping to find someone that can run, catch, and score. So if you apply the same context to a musical artist, you might want to draft someone like Kate Tucker.This talented singer/songwriter who has […]
Rob Young’s book Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music, started life looking at the increasing popularity and electrification of folk music during the late 1960s and early 1970s. But as he delved further back into the inspiration behind acts such […]
Its been 18 years since the last Shoes studio album, an extraordinarily long time in the world of Rock, although hardly more than a nano-second in the career of a band whose career spans nearly 40 years. This is Shoes […]
Bitter-sweet songs of love from a mature viewpoint There appears to a vibrant music scene in Northern Ireland at the moment with a few young singers and bands slowly coming to the attention of the radio stations and publications across the […]
Americana/Roots Festival Founder Mike Aiken Welcomes David Olney, Elliot Lurie, Bonnie Bishop, Susan Greenbaum and more to Smithfield, Virginia, September 28-29 Nashville, TN (August 15, 2012) — Mike Aiken, Americana/Country/Roots national recording artist and founder of Smithfield Music’s Aiken & […]
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