The Banjo Jamboree in Čáslav, Czech Republic, is Europe’s oldest bluegrass festival. It’s been on my bucket list for years and I finally had the chance to play there last summer on the occasion of its 44th anniversary. Even though […]
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OK, so I finally heard the Eric Church song “Springsteen.” (Showed up in my Twitter feed as an Austin City Limits performance: #countryfail.) To be honest, I didn’t listen all the way through. I’ve heard this song before. Well, figuratively. […]
Moses Guest’s “Light” is a sterling display of musicianship, vocal presence, and charisma bundled into one package. The track opens with a progressive guitar intro, with clean riffs complementing raspy vocals to seamlessly blends southern rock, pop, blues, country and […]
In the Fall 2016/Speak Up! issue of No Depression in print, singer-songwriter Allison Moorer wrote about her experience performing with other artists as part of the Voices of A People’s History — a show concocted of musicians and poets, moved by Howard Zinn’s book […]
“Last year was a son of a bitch for nearly everyone we know,” Jason Isbell sang at the outset of his show at Seattle’s opulent Paramount Theatre on Tuesday night, instantly energizing what he had to know was a copacetic […]
When I was a high school teacher, lo these many years ago, as the school year began to draw to a close members of the senior class would sometimes say, “Let’s start a tradition!” with the idea that they would leave their […]
On Americana Music Show #369, you will hear the debut album from the The Texas Gentlemen and it’s got that classic FAME Studio sound you like. You will also hear country rock from Eli Cook, Lukas Nelson, and Brandy Clark. […]
This is the week we have all been waiting for. Let’s face it, we – the Americana Music Association headed by Jed Hilly and the rest of us – have changed Nashville, and significantly influenced other genres as well. No longer […]
Mavis Staples just announced plans to release a new studio album, titled If All I Was Was Black. The album marks Staples’ third outing with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, who wrote and produced all of the album’s songs (Staples co-writes with […]
In my younger and more vulnerable years, back in Boston in October of 1989, I scored a right and left cross of The Waterboys and Bob Dylan. On a Sunday night in October, with the leaves turning on the Common and cold […]
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