Edie Brickell woke up Christmas morning ahead of her family. Sitting in her Connecticut kitchen, she went to her computer hoping her musical partner Steve Martin sent her a present of a new banjo track—and he did. With her dogs […]
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Have you had enough yet? For the past five weeks, your ears have likely been assaulted with the annual barrage of snappy little tunes that can easily get on anyone’s nerves. The holiday may only come once a year, but […]
These days, buying an album is a radical act of patronage. Way back when, my mother and her younger brother waited in line to buy the new Beatles album on the day it came out. Aside from the radio, […]
Blackgrass, a dark sub genre of Bluegrass, creates an ominous cinematic soundscape that blends instrumental and storytelling influences from bluegrass traditions with virtuosic strings, alternative old world instrumentation and raw gritty vocalizations seeped in desperation and pain. Deconstructing traditional song […]
It’s easy to remember what rocked our ears all summer long, and a no-brainer what the best album of the late-summer/autumn was. But what about the music that eased us into the New Year? Let’s dig through the piles and […]
December 12 was an unseasonably warm day for Warren Haynes’ 27th Annual Christmas Jam, held each year in the Smoky Mountains enclave of Asheville, North Carolina. It was so warm, in fact, that not only were some folks in T-shirts, but […]
Classic country music, the stuff of AM radio and the Grand Ole Opry, is a study in contrasts. There’s glitz and grit, reveling and wallowing, wretchedness and showmanship. Country music’s greats wore their battered hearts on sequined sleeves. From Bakersfield […]
1 The Orpheus myth offers a fertile metaphor on the relationship between inspiration and creative maturity. Anne Wroe writes in The Daily Beast: Orpheus … contains within himself two sides of the poetic character. … Traditionally, Orpheus was first a […]
It was certainly not the grand finale David Corley envisioned when he embarked on his first European tour to support his highly acclaimed debut album, Available Light. Before his final song at the TakeRoot festival in Groningen, the Netherlands, on […]
A delightful holiday party and a sudden Manhattan downpour both militated against my making a benefit gig for which I’d bought tickets for myself and two friends last Monday night, but I was determined not to miss it. People did come […]
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