Nathan, You Had Me at Hello By Donna Mavity Often, the first record you hear from an artist is like the first kiss from your first love. Hard to top. Nothing that follows ever lives up to that initial soul-siphoning […]
Nathan, You Had Me at Hello By Donna Mavity Often, the first record you hear from an artist is like the first kiss from your first love. Hard to top. Nothing that follows ever lives up to that initial soul-siphoning […]
Seattle is building quite a lexicon of electronic based music and the trio Hard Garden aim to add a little blues to the mix. Delta blues duo Son Jack Jr. and Michael Wilde along with mix master Garret Williams have […]
By Ted Slowik Making music is easier than ever. Low-cost technology, easy access to free instruction and the availability of free distribution channels via the Internet means just about anyone can create and independently release music. While this is great […]
Todd Snider was rummaging through his mail during a three-way cross-country phone conversation in early December, when Christmas apparently came early. “Holy shit, I think someone just sent me a bunch of drugs,” the funky folk singer-songwriter announced from Nashville. […]
You’ve never heard my favorite Neil Young anecdote. A decade or more ago, my wife was in an elevator at Saks Fifth Avenue when two men stepped in – and, somewhat implausibly, one of them was Neil Young. Now, she […]
If you need to pick up Valentine’s candy, not to worry: the stores are well-stocked. There’s EASTER candy everywhere, for crying out loud. I walked into the grocery store last week and boom. Teetering stack of mini-eggs. I still haven’t […]
‘Good times and hard times, they’re worth all the telling; it won’t matter to me if you sing ‘em that well.’ In his notes to Larry Kaplan’s Worth all the telling, Sandy Paton (of Folk-Legacy Records) quoted the first two […]
50 prime hits, B-sides, alternates, live tracks and rarities from 1955-1967 Proving himself as savvy in business as he was innovative in music, Buck Owens wrested control of his masters from Capitol Records in a 1970s legal battle. His ownership […]
Sometime in the late 1960’s, Mickey wrote: “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)” for Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. although based out of Nashville with publisher Acuff/Rose, Mickey had crossed over into pop. Then, in […]
It is hard to believe that 2014 will be six years without the physical copy of No Depression. Maybe I’m from an ancient generation that grew up with pens and pencils, books, magazines, newspapers…before this paperless-digital age; that has dismantled […]
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