Best 10 Tempest Bob Dylan Carrie Newcomer Rodney Crowell Kin This One’s For Him Various Iris Dement-Sing The Delta Mercy Land(check date) Bruce Springsteen Leonard Cohem Ernest Troost Kuve at McCabe’s […]
Best 10 Tempest Bob Dylan Carrie Newcomer Rodney Crowell Kin This One’s For Him Various Iris Dement-Sing The Delta Mercy Land(check date) Bruce Springsteen Leonard Cohem Ernest Troost Kuve at McCabe’s […]
The L.A. Americana scene is a funky mish-mash of styles, talents and inspirations where streams of veteran celebrities casually rub shoulders with local artists in much the same way that used to occur in Greenwich Village a half a century […]
“Thirty years of running has left me standing with my back to the cold, and it’s left me most days wondering if I’ve ever really learned a thing at all. But I’m trying to move on.” — Justin Townes Earle […]
Q: When did you decide to become a singer? A: When I was about three, I sang for the first time, and I knew I had an amazing voice. I never “decided” to become a singer. It was simply who […]
Chapter Two: Legacy versus Legend On a bluff overlooking a bend in the St. Johns River, boys in short-sleeved shirts and ties mingle with attractive girls in summer outfits, pausing from intellectual pursuits to watch planes landing in the distance […]
Friday 7th December 2012 This has been a spectacular year for live music in the North East with the Evolution, Split and SummerTyne Festivals drawing huge crowds and World Class artists playing at the Sage Gateshead and the Stadium of […]
Various Artists Get Quiet About It: A Tribute to Jesse Winchester (Mailboat) Looking at Jesse Winchester’s career in retrospect, it’s actually surprising that there’s been no sort of tribute before. After all, Winchester is something of a national treasure, given […]
Every form of music has its fallen heroes – the artists whose careers had only just begun – with remarkable promise and inimitable skill – when they were suddenly, tragically over. The loss of Gram Parsons when he was just […]
Apple has announced that future computers will not come equipped with a CD drive, because everybody can download or stream anything they want now and the drives are heavy and cumbersome and break and irrelevant. Though I am painfully sell […]
It’s time to present my 7th Annual Best Albums of The Year Awards. As in year’s past, my voting consists of albums that I physically have in hand which were acquired over the last twelve months. Many of the selections […]
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