After a bit of a hiatus, I’m back. Temporarily, anyway. It’s been all work and responsibility here in the Turnbull house. I feel a bit like the mounds of ice at the end of my driveway, frozen up and rounded […]
Since leaving the Carolina Chocolate Drops last year, founding member Dom Flemons has been busy. He’s been touring around, opening for Reverend Payton’s Big Damn Band and others, released a workshop video on How to Play the Quills, has been […]
“It’s been three years since you left this tired town” is how Del Barber started his Vancouver show. “All the folks still ask why you never come around.” The song was Can’t Turn Around from his 2012 album Headwaters and about half way through the Winnipeg […]
A bit late for many of you, perhaps, but I just went to see “Inside Llewyn Davis”. Needless to say I have been shuffling along ever since listening to pre-electric Dylan and remembering my first winter visits to Greenwich Village […]
Americana/roots music was introduced to me through the talents of Bill Mallonee. A friend invited me and my wife to a Mallonee house show that he was hosting. As a theatre artist who operates somewhere within that vague category of […]
Folk School? St. Louis, home of the Blues? That’s right. In a world that is dominated by high tech gadgets, a fast paced world where everyone needs to get there first, there are some who realize the importance of recognizing […]
A new superhero is fighting for freedom, justice and the Nigerian way in the mean streets of Lagos. And – oh, yes – he can dance too. Meet Captain Rugged, the creation of Nigerian musician Keziah Jones. He is the […]
BREAKING NEWS— On April 1 ABCKO records will release Herman’s Hermits: The American Albums, an eight-CD box set that replicates all of the band’s LPS as released in the United States from 1965 to 1969, complete with original liner notes and, […]
SUZY BOGGUSS Lucky (Loyal Dutchess) Suzy Bogguss didn’t set out to craft a Merle Haggard tribute record. Some might call that serendipity; she just calls it Lucky. Bogguss and her husband/co-producer Doug Crider were combing through songs to consider for […]
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