Country artist’s fine return to his bluegrass roots Clinton Gregory had a run of Top-100 country hits in the early ’90s, but both his releases and commercial success became scarce by mid-decade. He returned last year with Too Much Ain’t […]
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On episode 143 of the Americana Music Show, Todd May plays three tracks from his solo album, Rickenbacker Girls, and talks about dusting off old songs, “thinking like Al Green,” the advantages of living in Ohio, and meeting Exene Cervenka […]
On episode 142 of the Americana Music Show, Javi Garcia plays three tracks from The Great Controversy and talks about learning song phrasing the hard way, his admiration of Chuck Berry, and rewriting the lyrics to one of his songs. […]
On my guitar blog New.Old.Stock., I have a semi-regular column called “These are a Few of My Favorite Tones,” highlighting my favorite recorded guitar sounds. Back in March I dedicated an edition of “My Favorite Tones” to acoustic Americana music. […]
With a career as diverse as the emerging genre we call ‘Americana,’ Jim Lauderdale continues on the same track toward collaboration, generosity and an imagination fused with the influence of Country and Bluegrass traditions. His December, 2012 release with musical […]
Irma Thomas’ lost early-70s soul sides After relocating from New Orleans to Los Angeles, soul queen Irma Thomas largely disappeared from public view for a few years. But a series of singles produced by Jerry Williams (a.k.a. Swamp Dogg) on […]
All twenty-eight of Eddy Arnold’s chart-topping singles For most artists, a twenty-eight track collection of their biggest chart hits would be a fair representation of their commercial success. In Eddy Arnold’s case, twenty-eight #1 singles only very lightly skims the […]
For over 1,000 years a mill has stood at Obermuhle, near Habach in southern Bavaria. The current house on that spot is 200 years old and contains a music club called the Village. The “chief,” Dieter Uebler, inhabits the Village […]
By day three I’m starting to flag, but Canada House at the Blind Tiger looks intriguing: a line-up sponsored by music organisations from three of the western provinces. I’m off to Alberta at the end of July, so this could […]
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