It’s been a particularly interesting week to live in Nashville and be someone who writes about music. This week, a mashup of six top country songs went viral. The songs were virtually identical besides not being very good. It was […]
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It isn’t every night you get a chance to see a living legend in Belfast. So, as soon as the news broke that The Out to Lunch Festival had booked Booker T. Jones, I quickly noted the date in my brand spanking […]
I was a late-comer to Martin Stephenson and the Daintees. I tuned in during the early ‘90s to classics that had been written in the previous decade. They were a very specific mix of political and spiritual, literary and realist. […]
Scott Avett is well-accustomed to crowds. He and the rest of The Avett Brothers have been performing for arenas full of fans for years now. And Scott is used to baring his soul; his songs are personal and hold no punches. It was […]
Of the too-many notables in the music world who passed away in 2014, one did not, perhaps, get his due in many roots and Americana publications. His name was Neil Reshen. Many of you are asking, who is Neil Reshen? […]
“The Kinks at the Harold Pinter Theatre, tonight. What time?” my husband asked. I felt faint, even sitting down, for just a second: I was dreaming. Then I remembered — oh yes. The Kinks, the musical. We were celebrating a new year with […]
As history continues to repeat itself in the race-plagued streets of the United States, and on the war-weary battlefields of the Middle East, people are again turning toward music to voice feelings that cannot be spoken, to comfort hearts that cannot […]
I have been hearing about this band Ten Ton Man for quite some time. They’re described as “gritty Americana”, which I couldn’t agree more. With a deep baritone vocalist Paul Livornese fronting the group, Ten Ton Man leads you to […]
By now, most of you have read the story of Doug Seegers’s long stretch as a homeless street musician to his rediscovery and recent celebrity. In this recent show at Gypsy Sally’s, he described the incident of being filmed by […]
Donna Hughes has built much of her reputation writing songs for — and working with — some of the finest artists in contemporary bluegrass. Alison Krauss recorded her song “My Poor Old Heart” for her Grammy-winning album Lonely Runs Both Ways. […]
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