There are bands and there are bands, but occasionally there are BANDS and No Small Children are right now proving that they are one of those. Elementary school teachers by day, they toss off the persona of schoolmar’m at night, […]
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Brown Bird’s Dave Lamb faces a crisis, and his fans have his back in a big way. Spend a few minutes hanging at the warm side of street musicians’ guitar case, lost in the rawness of word and melody, and […]
Rivers flood broad expanses of the Southern imagination. The mythic Mississippi rolls through literature, our watery national spine, by turns torpid and apocalyptic. But there are countless intimate tributaries and every Southerner knows one. Flowing water provides blessed relief in […]
Moving and socially significant Australian country music Though country music is most typically associated with the Southern United States, its impact has been felt all around the world. In addition to Nashville and Texas exports, a strong but little-known strain […]
Morning River Band‘s latest release, To Suzie, described by Fields as “an ode to good riddance,” was inspired by encounters with George Jones and Jim Beam. I am sure a lot will be made of ‘A country band from Philly?’ […]
It was definitely Billy Bragg‘s day, with a strong contender for performance of the year, not just of TGE. In comparison with the other stuff I saw, it’s a bit like wondering how the rest got on when Mo Farah turned […]
Delta Rae might sound like the down-home name of a backwoods country singer but it’s really just Greek to Brittany Holljes. “I think there are a lot of ‘Delta’ bands out there, too, so we kind of get that … […]
If Kat Edmonson ever becomes a household name, she can put it down not just to her talent as a jazz singer, but to some decidedly modern financing as well. The 29-year-old Texan, an old-school chanteuse with a contemporary lilt, […]
By Ken Paulson, Sun209.com There’s a moment on the Chet Atkins and Les Paul album Guitar Monsters (Real Gone Music) where the two playfully compare notes on CB radio and Dolly Parton’s attributes. It’s an exchange that simultaneously signals just […]
How does the co-writing song process differ from the alone songwriting process you just wrote about? Co-writing is quite different from writing alone. When I’m working on something alone I have complete freedom. Freedom to experiment, to make mistakes, to […]
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