Fans of Earl Scruggs frequently hold that when he broke with Lester Flatt, his musical partner of 24 years, to form the Earl Scruggs Revue with his sons, he actually was only caving in to his desire to please his sons, […]
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“Stick to singing, sweetie.” Those words will be familiar to many musicians. Artists in every medium have long been told not to speak out about conflict and injustice. They have been told that that’s not their job, that they shouldn’t […]
Born and raised in the Santa Cruz Mountains, The Coffis Brothers & The Mountain Men are a rootsy rock n’ roll band influenced by the early musical surroundings of Petty, Young, and The Beatles. Songwriters Jamie and Kellen Coffis’ – alongside Kyle […]
FloydFest and the Waterfront Blues Festival are, in many respects, opposites. Whereas FloydFest is off the beaten path in the middle of a forest that’s in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Floyd, Virginia, the Waterfront Blues fest is in downtown Portland, […]
Lee Ann Womack may be smoking a cigarette on the cover of her just announced forthcoming album The Lonely, The Lonesome, & The Gone, but her new song “All the Trouble” is a breath of fresh air. In tandem with […]
What do you do when you can play straight blues or Hendrix style hard rock with equal ease and finesse? On the seventh album of his career the phenom from Nelson County, Virginia reins in his inner guitar god and […]
When it comes to his music, President 45 is decidedly VH-1 Classic Dad, with a pinch of Vegas schmaltz. Among his acknowledged favorites are The Rolling Stones’ world-weary, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” and Queen’s as rococo as […]
Shaped note singing, a new form of sacred music, swept through the Blue Ridge Mountains at the dawn of the 19th century, using triangles, ovals and even half-moons to correspond to the notes of the familiar do-re-mi-fal-sol musical scale. In […]
Five decades after “Angel of the Morning” became a Top 10 hit for Merrilee Rush, Chip Taylor gets “the same chill” when he sings it as he did when he wrote it in the 1960s. “I never wrote it as […]
Does anybody know what time it is? Does anybody really care? Old songs tend to drift in and out of our sub-conscious at the most random of times. For some reason the old Chicago song came to mind as I […]
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