Thanks to the generosity of George Kaiser Family Foundation and the University of Tulsa, The Bob Dylan Archive has found a home in Tulsa. The archive, which contains over 6,000 items of Dylan related writings, recordings and memorabilia, will be […]
As we head into IBMA week in Raleigh, I’m thinking about where we’ve come from and where we’re headed. My guide for the past few days has been a wonderful book recommended in a column a few weeks ago by […]
Sigur Rós blew minds Saturday with a celestial live performance at the Hollywood Bowl. Blew. Minds. I had never seen the Icelandic group in person, only ever having been deeply mesmerized by their recorded work. I wondered how it would […]
Americana Fest 2016 has ended. Once again, it was six nights and five days when an international community gathered around its common love and respect for a kind of music that is raw, honest, earnestly human, universal. We could break it […]
What is Americana? I heard that question asked many times this past week in Nashville, by first-timers and folks who knew nothing about AmericanaFest. I do not attempt to answer that as I subscribe to what Charles Mingus said about jazz: […]
Guy teamed up with producer/engineer Miles Wilkinson again for 1992’s Boats to Build after being courted by Kyle Lehning, who had been hired to manage the Nashville office for the revamped Asylum Records label. Lehning released Boats to Build as […]
The new Tyler Keith and the Apostles record, Do It For Johnny, dropped on 9/9. I wrote the liner notes. Here they are: You’re in a movie. In the movie is where you feel right. All the women look like […]
Spending Thursday evening in Cleveland was a long way from a night in Nashville during AMA week, but there was a saving grace being at Music Box Supper Club. Toasting some nice autumn ale with my wingman and partner-in-crime Dale […]
Neil Young is one of rock and folk’s most mercurial and exciting live performers. Many of his shows through the years were spellbinding, and it’s difficult to pick a best show or tour. I remember incredible performances by Young with Crosby, Stills, […]
After an excellent opening set by Ben Glover of whom more soon, this was a performance of the purest country music; an acoustic set featuring Brandy Clark accompanied by Miles Aubrey, each with a guitar. No band, just songs, some […]
