Springsteen fans who want to read about the man and his music have long been able to opt for everything from biographies to books about the albums to coffee-table photo collections. Now comes Gillian G. Gaar’s Boss: Bruce Springsteen and […]
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Chris Stapleton is a killer! He’s the one instance whereby I can think murder is gorgeous. He gets into the guts of an electric guitar like few I’ve ever seen. He grabs at the resonant heart of the powered box […]
Most of the time, our Friday release day spotlight falls on artists who fit squarely within the scope of stereotypical “American roots music.” This week, we’re lifting up a handful of albums that deliver the unexpected. While North Carolina’s Chatham […]
The weather is cooling a bit, the stages are going up, the kegs of FreshGrass IPA are being rolled in, and the banjos will soon be tuned. Yes, it’s time again for the FreshGrass Festival. This will be my third […]
To continue going beyond the limits of just DJs that I interview, it seems like the perfect time to get to know Jed Hilly, the very busy head of the AMA and ringleader at the upcoming Americana Music Festival & Conference (Sept. 20-25th) […]
Armed with my records and a sharpie I piled into my car with my daughters, Caitlin and Elizabeth, and made the 1.3 mile journey to one of my favorite places, Buffalo Records in Kearney, NE to hear one of my […]
Bob Weir met Jerry Garcia at Dana Morgan’s Music Store in Palo Alto, early in 1963. Before the Beatles came along and influenced them into forming an electric rock band, the pair’s group were known as Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug […]
Every great songwriter is also a great storyteller. It’s no wonder, then, that Odie Lindsey names Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, and Townes Van Zandt as some of his influences. In his new collection of short stories, We Come to Our […]
The first of two nights in London, this was a keenly awaited pleasure for what looked, and soon sounded, like an audience of long-standing fans. It’s been five years since the Jayhawks played here and longer still, before that. Last […]
Memory is a strange and wonderful artifact. When I was a teacher, students who were seniors referred to school habits as traditions, though much of what they referred to this way had just been initiated when they were in middle school. Family […]
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