John Moreland doesn’t say much when he hits a stage. He simply sits down and plays his songs. For a songwriter like Moreland, this is his hello, his goodbye, and everything in between. And as an audience member, you’re all […]
John Moreland doesn’t say much when he hits a stage. He simply sits down and plays his songs. For a songwriter like Moreland, this is his hello, his goodbye, and everything in between. And as an audience member, you’re all […]
It’s time again to look at some of the people behind the scenes of radio. Lindsay Reid is promo guy for the highly respected company Thirty Tigers, which does marketing, promotion, and management for some of the best artists around. What got […]
We love the mingling of past and present that so often happens in roots music. We revere the sounds from the past while cheering on the folks who find an entirely new way to bring those sounds into the modern […]
Twenty miles west of where the Missouri river diverges from the rib of the Mississippi sits the town of Ferguson. This northern suburb of St. Louis, once a blip on the map, now remains lodged like Jerusalem in the viscera […]
Link Wray, Charley Patton, Howlin’ Wolf, Monk Boudreaux Shine Among the Many Native American Creators of Blues, Jazz and Rock Celebrated in Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World rumblethemovie.com This brightly-edited, fast-paced yet thoughtful new documentary […]
Summer may have just begun, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t already looking forward to AmericanaFest in Nashville, as well as its accompanying Americana Music Honors and Awards. Ahead of the show, the Americana Music Association has just announced this year’s […]
Even though the summer solstice has just peaked over the horizon and the pages of the books of summer have not yet wilted, the books of fall are already littering the ground with tales of sex, drugs, and wretched excess […]
Here’s To Life!: The Story Of The Refreshments There was a brief time in the mid-’90s when a small Arizona bar band took popular music by storm. Following a heralded appearance at SXSW, Tempe’s The Refreshments were signed by Mercury […]
Some years ago, a leader of a national band hired a new lead singer, whose voice, energy, and personality soon helped to raise the band’s profile. After a while, the band was developing a larger audience while booking better and […]
Admittedly, it’s not always easy keeping up with Grammy-winning guitarist Warren Haynes. A musician with a seemingly insatiable muse, he divides his time between his longstanding commitment to his band Gov’t Mule, his solo projects, and his family, with primary […]
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