Twenty-eight years after it launched, the annual MerleFest, in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, is now halfway into another year. I arrived midday on Friday — day two of the event — just in time to catch Portland, Oregon-based old-time group Foghorn Stringband. […]
Meet Vexine; the Richmond, Virginia band that is taking the world by storm. April 30th sees the group releasing their latest endeavor Little Sin (ZAP Records), a sexy Rock n’ Roll album that will have you on the edge of […]
By 2012, Country Music had fully transformed from the gold-spun ballads of everyday tragedy into assembly-line pop, retrofitted with patriotic bromides and blue-collar pandering. Reigning jester of this unabashed profiteering, Dierks Bentley, penned the ultimate anthem of reductive garbage “Home” — […]
In my continuing effort to highlight DJs from all over the world, I present Rolf Hierath from Germany. He is a big Johnny Cash fan and does no less then three weekly radio shows. Bill Frater: Where and when did you […]
This week we’re highlighting a handful of discs that share one thing in common: our reviewers loved them. Starting with Keb’ Mo’s latest – a double-disc live recording that features a number of favorites from his BLUESAmericana record, and more. […]
Three weeks ago — on April 6, 2016— Merle Haggard died. His unmistakable voice wound its way into our lives in drinkin’ songs (“I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink,” Barroom Buddies”), family songs (“Grandma Harp,” “Daddy Frank,” “Mama […]
The Dead 27s are a riot filled band that hail from South Carolina. They carry the vein of Bluesy Rock n’ Roll that is brought to life with their latest release, “Chase Your Devils Down.” Made up Trey Francis (vocals), Wallace […]
Sylva, North Carolina, lies just short of 50 miles southwest of Asheville, the largest and most cosmopolitan city in the western part of the state. It’s a small town of around 2,500 people, the seat of Jackson County. It’s the […]
Margaret Glaspy is from Califonia but now lives in New York City’s Upper West Side, by way of Boston’s Berklee College of Music. While she was born to two guitarists, she originally took up the fiddle before finally seeing that guitars were her future. […]
To write a live review of a Prince show never occurred to me. You were — God, that past tense jars — so much in the moment, and with the people around you. Who wanted to be making mental notes, […]
