For many, it’s hard to live up to–or escape–the shadow of one’s parents. This is especially true in the music industry. While having that famous last name opens many doors, finding success and a large audience is a much harder […]
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In what seems like a faraway galaxy a long time ago, there was a special place known as southeastern Ohio, home of Ohio University–guys with ponytails, girls in overall bibs and, in the rural parts of Athens County, hippies hung […]
In 1989, the year the Mavericks first convened, the divide between pop and country was still relatively wide, despite the progress made by bands like the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Poco and others of […]
Recently I made the trek from my home in Kentucky down to Macon, GA to see my best friend. Over the course of my life I’ve made this trip A BUNCH. However, not since I was 19 have I made […]
Evidently I had been waiting for this and didn’t even know it because when pal and writing colleague Jaimie Vernon plugged me into it, it felt like a 2X4 across the skull. “It” is a concept album maybe not as […]
In an era that has wholeheartedly adopted the phrase, “Any press is good press”, artists, entrepreneurs, politicians, and moms with the cutest baby photos evar recognize the importance of getting one’s name out there in the media landscape. But as […]
Two Degrees of Separation I blogged about Mike Bloomfield and Bob Dylan in December, writing here about their first encounter in Chicago in 1963, the crucial role that Bloomfield played backing Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival, the beautiful licks he laid […]
These days, the blues is pretty much universally acknowledged as integral to the world’s music DNA. Even ad-men get it. But, fifty years ago, when a bunch of English white kids with names like Clapton, Jagger, Jones, and Page first […]
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