Earlier this year I watched the film documentary SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN. It told the story of how two South African fans tracked down Detroit based singer/songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, a cult hero in their country, decades after he had released a […]
A leading voice in of an oft neglected branch of Americana , Gothic and insurgent country, the beautiful and talented Rachel Brooke inhabits the forlorn and high lonesome like few contemporary artists can. Brooke has a way of stylistically casting […]
The wintry breath of Alaska envelops the homespun folk of singer/songwriter Lindianne Sarno, otherwise known as simply Lindianne. On her latest album, American Man, Freedom Songs from the Peace Line, Lindianne crafts heartfelt, unpretentious acoustic music that have a certain […]
Adventus is the official coming out party for The Departed, an arrival, but the soft opening has been going on since Cross Canadian Ragweed disbanded a couple of years ago. The Departed played 200+ shows during that time, but they’re […]
I once had a U.S. colleague who got so confused by political correctness that rather than describe the celebrated British athlete Daley Thompson as black, she referred to him as a British African-American. It is with that in mind that I […]
Montgomery Chapel, San Anselmo. The doors look familiar, don’t they? Forty years ago Van Morrison posed on the steps with an acoustic guitar and a ripped pair of jeans and Michael Maggid’s iconic photograph became the front cover of Saint […]
Interview with RANDY BERGIDA 1.0 – What’s the best thing about The Letter Yellow’s WALKING DOWN THE STREETS? I really connect to these songs. They were extremely natural to write and being that the majority of the songs were written one after […]
Even though she mainly plays piano Teresa James has certainly taken many of her moves from the Bonnie Raitt playbook for her new album Come On Home. The immaculately produced album features a mix of blues, soul, boogie and Cajun […]
I like to think that the new Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale album, Buddy and Jim, is entirely my fault. In June of 2011, my father and I visited Nashville for the first time and had the chance to see Jim […]
