I’m in Albuquerque, stop #1 on a southwest book tour for my latest collection, strange theater. I had a friend who lived in this city for years, a small home out near the petroglyphs, and who was murdered in 2014. […]
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Sitting at the kitchen table, drinking Tony White’s beer while listening to him talk about Grace & Tony’s upcoming album, Phantasmagoric, would’ve been worth the price of admission – if I had been required to pay admission, that is. It […]
Had I stuck to my plan, you’d likely be reading about the emergence of cowboy hats in roots music, after the genre enjoyed a brief fling with the fedora. Coupled with prairie couture, this year has seen a subtle shift in […]
I knew Stash Wyslouch from a terrific bluegrass band called the Deadly Gentlemen, which disbanded about a year ago, so I was expecting an evening of bluegrass. What I saw was bluegrass meets acoustic heavy metal. One of the only […]
Wise Old Moon is a band with a penchant for a great groove and introspective, catchy songwriting painted over a rootsy, warm tapestry of sound. The Connecticut based quartet is set to release their sophomore album and while the band has […]
This week, I only chose two videos to share, but they’re doozies. The first is from the eclectic instrumental duo Steelism. The second is another premiere from the Mike + Ruthy Band (I’ll be premiering more from them in the coming weeks). It’s […]
There have been a few times when I’ve had my feelings hurt by omission. A friend once put out a list of his favorite albums of the year and mine wasn’t on it. It’s hard to be out there making […]
Some people are vehemently opposed to awards show and argue that they should be avoided at all cost. Some will even argue that award shows are single-handedly smothering the very life out the genres of music that we love so […]
I went into the Freshgrass experience not knowing what to expect. I knew a few things, this was a festival at a contemporary art museum, I had friends that had played the fest in the past and they loved it, and that […]
Boz Scaggs, best known in mainstream pop music for his classic ’70s disco-era album, Silk Degrees, has always drawn his roots, influence, and musical expression from Texas blues. He began with a blues guitar in his hands as a teenager in Texas. The […]
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