Monday 15th October Although Mary Chapin and Shawn are best friends and have played on each others albums for many years, this was the first time that they have actually toured together as a duo without the safety net of […]
0
Language barriers can make it a helluva hard time to really understand a music, so it’s no surprise that most reviewers and music writers think of Cajun music as being something separate than country music. If you listen to the […]
I’ve been sitting on this album for a little bit now, afraid that anything I could say about it would only diminish how much I really love it. I’ve jealously guarded these songs, savoring them, enjoying them, singing along to […]
I am partial to discovering music by artists who are also considered world artists. Listening to musicians from islands, Europe, Africa and Down Under only to discover how they have taken specific Americanization’s and applied it to their own heritages […]
I have never under-estimated records or CDs received from artists or managers with no affiliation with a record company. Some people complain that projects such as this are filled with lots of effort, little musical quality and shallow production values. But, Canada’s […]
Many music fans across the world know Buddy Holly as a brilliant 22 year old singer/songwriter but few know the true story between Buddy Holly and his mentor Norman Petty. Norman was Buddy’s co-writer of choice as you will see […]
If the twenty-something woman strumming an acoustic guitar on the corner of 4th and Congress was singing for her supper Thursday, she undoubtedly went home hungry that night. Folks, welcome to Austin, Texas, Live Music Capital of the World. On […]
This is Ed, not Bruce. I just wanted to take a moment before I share Springsteen’s words with you to say that I’ve been thinking a lot about the upcoming election here in the US. Yesterday after the second presidential […]
This CD is a very refreshing and delightful piece of music. It is recorded in the fairly traditional bluegrass way. This group is five men, who got the name of their group from the Balsam Range of mountains in North […]
Steve Earle took to the Austin Ventures stage Saturday evening — all denim, beard and hat — to challenge the reverb-heavy sounds of Bassnectar on the stage next door. It felt familiar, kind of like an ACL 2011 scheduling misstep that […]
SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
SUBSCRIBE NOW
SUBSCRIBE NOW
