If there’s one song in the booze-soaked history of country music that tells it how it is, it’s Merle Haggard’s 1966 hit, “Bottle Let Me Down.” The song describes the tragic moment when the alcoholic bottoms out and admits the booze […]
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Alicia Michilli is a rather tiny personage with a rather large voice. She hails from Motor City – Detroit and has a healthy respect for Motown Artists. Although she is only in her her early 20s, she has a deep love […]
The Misty Mountain String Band is a musical force like no other. With the release of their new record, Red Horizon, the group goes above and beyond the call of musical duty, to bring an impressive record to the table. The […]
As usual, there always seems to be exciting releases on the horizon. While I cannot cover everything, here is my fourth edition of some outstanding new roots muisc releases heading our way in the next few weeks. Accompanied, of course, by ND’s […]
If we can go ahead and choose the best album of the year, it’s clearly Bonnie Bishop’s Ain’t Who I Was. From the very first groove—and groove is exactly right on for this sensual soul singer—of the album, the Muscle […]
Hard Working Americans brought their “traveling cavalcade of chaos” to a packed Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh, N.C. playing to a Sunday night crowd looking for a good time. From the opening chords of his “Mission Accomplished” Todd Snider and his […]
It’s unfortunately happened to too many talented musicians. They release record after record and get good reviews, but — for reasons sometimes unexplainable — the albums don’t sell. Consider Dirk Hamilton, who released four albums on big labels — two […]
In years past, I’m told Sarah Shook could be could be found playing ballads and dirges on an acoustic guitar at City Tap, the bar and restaurant in in the quaint town of Pittsboro, North Carolina outside Chapel Hill. That was […]
The world of crowdfunding has exploded in recent years. More and more indie artists are skipping the traditional label system and going directly to their fans to fund their projects. It has become so popular that even established artists have […]
As I continue to spotlight some amazingly dedicated radio programmers from other countries, Dutch DJ Jos Van den Boom is the first to mention the universal, worldwide question of what to do with all the CDs we accumulate. Bill Frater: Where […]
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