I have this great used bookstore in my neighbourhood; every time I go in, I find some rare Canadian or country music book. I avoid the store, because if I went in regularly, I’d spend all my money on filling […]
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What’s not to like about a formerly homeless black guy who sounds like a crusty blend of Hank Williams 111 and Kid Rock, gritty and nasty, with the raw street sound of Ted Hawkins. William Pilgrim is the band,(actually a […]
My love for music festivals began at Wakarusa 2010- My first real festival experience and being from Arkansas, it just so happened to be in my backyard! I was an impressionable, young 20- year- old and had no idea what I was […]
On episode 137 of the Americana Music Show, Hannah Thomas talks about Georgia being a “musical mashup,” admiring Steve Earle, and listening to the highway men growing up. Plus a Willie Nelson cover of a Dorothy Fields song, Shannon McNally […]
On episode 136 of the Americana Music Show, Steve Dawson of Dolly Varden talks to Rick Cornell about why he moved to Chicago, listening to sad songs in the 70’s and taking his own song writing advice. Plus rock and […]
Birds of Chicago is a collective brought together under the guiding hands of J T Nero (J T & the Clouds) and Allison Russell (Po’ Girl). Tonight the four piece ensemble was made up of our two protagonists accompanied by […]
Live Club Review –Elephant Revival at The Independent, San Francisco So I picked up today’s New York Times to read about the sale, at an auction in Paris, of some sacred Hopi artifacts, over the objection of tribes people (and […]
Bonus-laden reissue of Steve Forbert’s first two albums Steve Forbert fell from recording star escape velocity with surprising quickness. His 1978 debut, Alive on Arrival, was a precociously well-formed introduction, recorded only two years after leaving his native Mississippi, and […]
There is no arguing the case that Joe Bonamassa is prolific. The blues guitarist promotes himself relentlessly, so a recent email hailing him as “beating ” B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughn initially elicited a sigh from me. But when […]
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