Inside the Veterans Amphitheater in Virginia Beach, donation canisters for the local food bank are a familiar sight. Stephanie Gordon, the volunteer manager of the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore, has enlisted twelve staff and volunteers to canvass […]
With the Americana Music Festival and Conference just around the corner (or already in full swing, depending on when you read this column), it’s a good time to be a fan of roots music. Being focused as it is primarily […]
If you were to Weird Science the prototype for a technically perfect, ethereal female singer, you’d come up with someone like Mikaela Davis. Petite, young and blonde, she’s a harpist with a high, dreamy, limber voice who boasts an affinity for […]
Harvey Reid and Joyce Andersen represent a vanishing breed – self-styled, American troubadours in the tradition of those who plied the dance halls, saloons and camp gatherings in this new land long before the advent of what’s become today’s music […]
A roots music group with a vintage sound older than its years, The Carolyn Sills Combo is breathing fresh life and heartfelt twang into the timeless sounds of post-war American music. Nominated for a 2016 Ameripolitan Award and Academy of Western Artist Award […]
Tory Hanna & The Pondsiders share their stunning new video today for “Waiting On You,” and we have the exclusive here! The track is taken from their most recent record, Learning to Share, which has been winning over the hearts […]
It’s about time that we expand the horizons on what “Radio Friendly” means and get to know some of the artists who make that music that we hear on the radio. David Olney is a songwriter who defies categorization, which […]
It’s been nearly 30 years since Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt got together to release their original Trio record, in 1987, and the music still holds up beautifully. Here are three women who have weathered every passing trend […]
The Other Half is a collaboration between star-crossed lovers’ country duet My Darling Clementine (Lou Dalgleish and Michael Weston King) and crime writer Mark Billingham that exists as an album and a stage show incorporating spoken word, forlorn country songs […]
And we’ll have fun, fun, fun until Mike Love and Brian Wilson wax up their pens and ride the tumultuous waves of their lives as Beach Boys as well as their lives outside a band that’s been washed up for […]
