We’re big fans of honeyhoney at ND, so it’s no surprise that we’re also stoked on the solo tunes of the duo’s Benjamin Jaffe. In early 2018, Jaffe will release his debut collection of solo material, titled Oh, Wild Ocean […]
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That photo is a beauty, isn’t it? Wish that old jukebox was mine, but it’s just a stock photo I found somewhere in space and snatched for this week’s column. The plan was to write an update on the Doug Sahm […]
Place pulls Southern writers so strongly that they can never fully move away from their Southern ground. Although he lived in Oxford, Mississippi, and spent years in Hollywood cranking out scripts, William Faulkner created his own little postage stamp parcel […]
In recent years Boston has become known as a hotbed of innovation in bluegrass music. Bands like Crooked Still, The Infamous Stringdusters, Chasing Blue, The Lonely Heartstring Band, and the Boston Boys have either come together in the American Roots […]
Richard Thompson has embarked on a UK solo acoustic tour that crosses the Atlantic next month. Before his second date I had the great pleasure of talking to him about, among other things, acoustic records, songwriting, and new ideas. Thompson has […]
Songwriters often find inspiration in personal trauma, and can sometimes find healing in such inspiration, too. Such was the case for Trout Steak Revival’s Will Koster, who found emotional healing in writing about a brain injury that left him in a […]
It is not often you get to see two legends whose lives have been so intertwined as Stephen Stills and Judy Collins. With over a hundred years between them and the heights they achieved, one less in the know might be […]
Bill Monroe once said in an interview with George Gruhn: “Bluegrass is a pure music. You follow the melody right, and you don’t put in no hot, know-it-all fiddle that don’t belong in there” (Ewing 2006, p. 195). Bluegrass music […]
Powerhouse Nashville guitarist JD Simo may never forget a night when he played at the Saxon Pub in Austin, Texas, about 13 years ago. He remembers the evening, though, not for his band’s performance but rather for the prowess of […]
The region of East Tennessee should be proud to boast that it hosted arguable two of the most important recording sessions in country music history in the late 1920s. Located merely 25 miles apart, Johnson City, Tennessee and Bristol, Tennessee, […]
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