Sixteen years into the annual Americana Music Association Conference and Festival, the event shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, what attendees used to casually refer to as a sort of miniature SXSW gathering for roots music people has […]
The Tedeschi Trucks Band closed out their summer touring with some dates along the West Coast with stops in Arizona, Oregon, Washington and California. With their stop in Seattle, Washington, they played at McCaw Hall on the grounds of the […]
Larry Cordle is a slight man with an often serious look on his face that easily breaks into a wily grin. He wears a trim mustache and a small goatee in a time when many men across the nation are […]
Fish were jumpin’ when T Bone Burnett conducted his first conference call with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant to discuss making an album together. The famed producer was up in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the Capilano Salmon Hatchery, perhaps thinking […]
As AmericanaFest begins today, it’s an apt time to look back at some previous years. You’ll also get the perspectives of some of my fellow attendees. I find AmericanaFest is about inclusion, openness, and discovery. From the Awards show at the Ryman […]
Joe’s Field behind the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, or MASS MoCA, in North Adams, MA, is half a lopsided bowl, with a flat playing surface parallel to the museum and to the walled spill of the Hoosic River, and a long grassy shoulder […]
When I talked with Bill Frisell this summer, he was still piecing together the melodic ideas and snippets that he will cohere into a solid composition for a premiere this November 12 at the Strand Theater in San Francisco. The […]
Anyone who doubts that Gov’t Mule is the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world is unfamiliar with Gov’t Mule, has hearing difficulties, or is unworthy of trust on matters related to music. Their force of nature frontman, Warren […]
The 59 th Monterey Jazz Festival was an island of sanity in a sea of pain. The headliner for opening night in The Arena was Mr. Quincy Jones (“Q’’ to those of you in the know, and to the fans in […]
Herb Pedersen just finished an exciting tour playing with Tom Petty and Mudcrutch. Yet, I wonder how many Mudcrutch fans at those incredible full-blown rock shows now remember the name of the talented backup singer, acoustic guitarist and banjoist who […]
