Anyone who has been to AmericanaFest can tell you, Americana music is not limited to America or even American artists. Americana is not a genre specific to a single nation. Rather, it is a state of being, a mindset, a calling. […]
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Glen Hansard’s music is not readily pigeon-holed, mixing and fusing rock, folk, and soul. He’s pop enough for Broadway, roots enough for FreshGrass and HSB. Nor is Hansard’s music easily forgotten, such is his flair for melody, way with words, and instinct […]
Seoul, South Korea, October 23rd Where I am now, in a downtown hotel in Seoul seven and a half thousand miles from Stockholm, people are talking about the Nobel Prize in Literature. There were a variety of just-concluded literary conferences in […]
We are living in dangerous times, St. Louis singer/songwriters Jeff and David Lazaroff say, and we all need coping mechanisms to get through an increasingly negative election season in which African-Americans, Hispanics, Muslims, and others have been targeted as “other.” […]
Jude Johnstone says it’s difficult to identify the best concert she has attended but gives the nod to Bonnie Raitt. Johnstone, who has opened several shows for Raitt, points to Raitt’s performance on May 24, 2015, at the Avila Beach […]
As the holiday season rolls around and the air begins to get colder, many artists turn their attention from the summer touring season to the studio, where songs coalesce into new albums. For some artists, that also means some time […]
The Mavericks brought their traveling rock and roll party to Durham, North Carolina to celebrate a Friday night at the beautiful, 90-year-old Carolina Theater. If there is a band that has more fun on stage than The Mavericks, I have yet to […]
I guess it’s time to call you out. Over the last few years, the selection committee had been announcing nominees that made many folks scratch their head and wonder. It seems that the ballots sent out to your over 600 […]
Talk about true love. Matilda Scaduto and Diadorius Bryant met in the spring of 1945 in Milwaukee. She…..a hotel elevator operator of Italian descent, and he…..a musician from Georgia. Two days after meeting, they eloped and settled down in Moultrie, […]
“This is really a drag—and a bore,’’ the doomed jazzster Chet Baker tells director Bruce Weber in Let’s Get Lost, in response to (sympathetic) inquiries about his drug habits. The same could be said of the recent controversy over the decision […]
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