There is a new outlaw in country music and he is definitely the most wanted young hombre to blaze the Americana trail in quite some time. By sheer chance, I first heard Sturgill Simpson this past fall during the Americana Music Association […]
This weeks medicine show was a mix of old reunion and new friendships. Its 19 years since I visited Vincent McCallum at his Portuguese venue in an olive grove with Martin Stephenson & Gypsy Dave Smith, he keeps a trail […]
When I joined the T-Bones back in the early 1990s, I was appalled to discover they couldn’t play covers. What sort of “country band”–genuinely from the country, to boot–could not fill a night with country and western classics, rockabilly, Cash covers, and […]
It was 1996 and I was a senior in high school. As a huge fan of Tori Amos, I was determined not to miss her Pittsburgh performance at the Benedum. Back then, if you wanted to get tickets to a concert, you had […]
BenJarvis Dumas is the wide-open, high-energy, can’t-stay-seated drummer for the Wild Feathers, a rising Southern rock band from Nashville. Dumas thought he had missed his chance in music and was living a domesticated life with a day job in music […]
Just imagine it’s 75 degrees with a beautiful blue sky, and your taking a ride through the country. The windows are down and the wind smells great. Now all you need is some travelin’ music. It just makes you feel […]
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison are getting ready to take a break from each other. Now don’t get alarmed. It’s not what you think. The tuneful toast of Texas twosomes who helped make Austin awesome aren’t for a split second […]
Last year Giovanni Russonello took to the Atlantic magazine to draw a narrow line from Bob Dylan’s “Americanarama Festival of Music” showcase and the lack of diversity in the genre overall. (“Why Is a Music Genre Called ‘Americana’ So Overwhelmingly […]
It’s so great to have Candi Staton back. Not that she ever went away, but on her new album, Life Happens (Beracah/Fame), her voice resonates with a force that shouts, “I’m here to tell you that bad stuff happens in […]
On Monday 26th May, a Steven Fromholz Memorial Concert will be held at Threadgill Theatre as part of the 2014 Kerrville Folk Festival. A reminiscence of the Memorial Concert will form the fourth and final part of this tribute to the late musician. […]
