Blackie and the Rodeo Kings‘ most recent album, Kings & Queens, is a series of duets with some of the best voices in the music industry including Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris. An album like this poses an interesting problem: […]
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1.0 – What’s the best thing about Barn Sessions? Perhaps that it’s real, it’s live, and you can see a mouse suddenly appear behind John’s lovely head in the “Hiding”‘ video. That’s just my personal opinion. 2.0 – Did you have […]
Rapping with Kinky Friedman is always a great experience. He’s been a guest on my Dirty Roots Radio show twice prior to this interview. The process isn’t without its challenges, though. You don’t so much “interview” Kinky as you just […]
While the rising popularity of Americana music in the past decade is an encouraging sign, watching one exceptionally well-grounded roots group sprout right before your eyes is truly a thing of beauty. The Nashville tag team of two Cryar sisters […]
26th November 2012 The two guitarists from support band The Rivals started the evening by facing their respective speakers and creating a cacophony of feedback, before whizzing through 8 Stranglers influenced, Nuggets era Garage-Punk songs in 25 minutes. Each song […]
Back in 2009 we met up with First Aid Kit when they supported Fanfarlo at the small Hanbury Arms venue in Brighton. At the time the sisters from Sweden, Johanna and Klara Söderberg had only released one mini album and […]
THE RADIATORS The Last Watusi (Radz) 3 CD live set that represent the best of each of the final 3 shows at Tipatina’s in New Orleans. The first night was an all acoustic affair mixing Rads originals with covers by Bob […]
A selection of live two- and three-man blues The Deep Blues Festival is a Minnesota celebration of alternative blues music, originally run from 2007 to 2010. After spin-offs in Cleveland and Ortin, WA, festival organizer (and BBQ restaurateur) Chris Johnson […]
According to a post at The Grateful Web unheard Townes Van Zandt releases, that have been locked away as a result of multiple label acquisitions of the initial Poppy Records recordings, will finally see the light of day with support […]
If I was a bass guitarist, I am not sure who I would rather be in today’s alternative rock scene than Ms. Jessica Dobson. Over the past ten years she has joined Beck, Conor Oberst, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the […]
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