Mirage Rock makes me miss Band of Horses. There are just enough touches of the original scruffy indie folk-rock band in Band of Horses’ latest album to make me nostalgic for everything that I loved about them when they first […]
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Emmylou Harris & Daniel Lanois: “Wrecking Ball” at Marathon Music Works, Nashville, October 24, 2012
I first heard Emmylou Harris quite by accident on the radio station WBAI in 1970 while visiting New York for my writing gig in Philadelphia. It was a short set, perhaps just 30 minutes or so in the studio, but […]
Old-time fiddler Rayna Gellert has a new record out that marks a beautiful new direction for her. Over the years, old-time American music has grown many roots and branches: southern fiddling, country blues, bluegrass, gospel… the list goes on. And then there […]
You just raised $12,233.45 on Kickstarter for that first album of songs that you’ve been working on for three years. Playing dives, libraries, parks, house concerts, open mics and the occasional bar where everybody talks over your set, your day […]
Wonderful Rootsy Blues Rock Country (and Klesmer) Album by the Amoreys. You have to love an album that starts with a guitar solo and ends with klesmer. Well, you don’t, and that’s the pity. The Amorey’s “Tip of My Brain” […]
Don’t think the copy editor-vexing capitalization used on the title and liner notes of ‘feathers&fishHooks,’ the latest release by new Nashville artist Rayland Baxter, signals anything but a love for fun. Indeed, Baxter, who has become something of a constant […]
Nick Ferrio is a country singer-songwriter from Peterborough, ON who has played bass for The Burning Hell for the past six years. Now, Ferrio is venturing out with a solo effort of exquisite country songs under the cleverly named (and […]
A country legend’s farewell studio session Three years before his untimely passing in 2002, Waylon Jennings spent a few days laying down what would be his last studio performances. Recorded in his friend (and steel guitarist) Robbie Turner’s home studio, […]
On the cover shot of his latest, Mystic Pinball, John Hiatt looks like a blurry version of Tom Waits. But when you open him up, it’s vintage Hiatt at his hyena-yowling best. “We’re All Right Now” is a great opener, […]
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