The ambitious new album See The Light, from Alabama quintet Fiddleworms is a cavalcade of styles with literally a parade of guest musicians including the University of North Alabama marching Band. The eleven original tracks are interspersed with snippets of […]
“Have you talked to Jesse Winchester? You can’t talk about the best songwriters and not include him.” ~ Bob Dylan Way back in the early 70s my then girlfriend told me I had to listen to this new singer-songwriter that […]
DATC: Gary, tell us what Document Records is and what makes it special? Gary: It is rather unique! I was a CD reviewer when I first encountered it. From the 1970s onwards there were labels that were reissuing pre-war country blues. Artists’ works […]
So, here we are again, tramping the streets of Brighton, squeezing into some unfeasibly small spaces to see bands we’ve never heard of… I’d been feeling somewhat underexcited by this year’s Great Escape because it the only one of hundreds of names on the […]
Outlaw country three years before RCA named it There may never have been as iconoclastic a country artist as David Allan Coe. Though his rejection of Nashville norms drew parallels with the outlaw movement, he always seemed a notch wilder […]
The Pistol Annies’ Ashley Monroe shines brightly in the solo spotlight As part of the Pistol Annies, Ashley Monroe’s star power was obscured by the outsized shine of her bandmate, Miranda Lambert. Though the Annies share lead vocals, they present […]
GRAMMY winner Steve Earle is one of America’s greatest living storytellers, but he’s not stopping there. Earle’s 15th studio album, 2013’s The Low Highway, is a road record written about what he experienced from the window of his tour bus while […]
It’s 2013, and most of the blues and R&B performers who once recorded for labels like Vee-Jay, Specialty, Chess, Aladdin, Duke and Peacock have departed for hopefully happier shores. However, the music that once emanated from these vintage labels – […]
He’s really funny, he’s got great songs, he plays great songs by others, and he surrounds himself with great musicians. All that makes for a great show, and Wednesday night at Thalia Mara Hall in Jackson, Mississippi was no exception. […]
