John Smith is a folk guitarist and singer from Devon who has toured with artists like John Martyn, Iron and Wine, and Gil Scott-Heron, so his pedigree was not in question. It’s just that the two acts that had preceded […]
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It is always a treat to see Willie Nile perform. He delivers – at least the times I have seen him – a fabulous show, replete with great songs that are accompanied by wonderful stories. He has been performing since […]
The poet Gary Short is telling us—me and pals David Shirley and Ryan Pierce—about his first few months in Oxford, Mississippi. Jake Fussell was one of the first people he met at the Blind Pig, a bar on the Square. He remembers […]
Every good venue will on occasion book a cover band, but this is Nashville and this is 3rd and Lindsley on a rainy Friday night, and this is not your ordinary cover band – not by a long shot. The […]
March 13 1965 Johnny Cash was booked to record “Flowers on the Wall” but couldn’t make it. Columbia Records allowed The Statler Brothers to record it and it became a huge hit. The song peaked in popularity in January 1966, […]
I’ve had the pleasure of seeing some really top notch performers over the years, but this past Saturday was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. I was lucky enough to go see Elton John in Orlando this past […]
Perhaps more than ever in its history, Nashville is a city asserting itself on the national scene. The larger image of the city is one of Southern cosmopolitanism, a fitting home even for hipster aristocracy such as the Black Keys […]
Marty Stuart knows who EmiSunshine is. So do those who have clicked the YouTube video of her singing “Folsom Prison Blues,” last March in Knoxville’s Market Square 1,681,526 times and counting. But, in the greater world of country music, EmiSunshine, […]
The rockabilly formula of a cute flower-in-her-hair lead singer, tattooed stand-up bassist, and stoic guitarist seems to be one that’s working these days; every city has at least one of these groups ready to take the Friday night masses into […]
As I was getting ready to go out the other night, my teenage son was doing the same. With his Spotify playlist blasting through the computer speakers, I heard a Patti Smith song and paused to tell him the story about the […]
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