A bucket-list trip. A whirlwind five days. 30 miles of walking and wandering through the vibrant streets of Austin, Texas. Tacos and barbecue for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And, a 30-mile commute to downtown Austin from Round Rock every day, […]
I was crawling around the concrete floor downstairs in the basement of The Strand, the massive indie bookseller just south of Union Square on Broadway in Manhattan, looking for nothing in particular when I came across a worn paperback about […]
The Blue Mountains Music Festival is held annually at Katoomba, in the World Heritage Area of the Blue Mountains, 50 miles west of Sydney, Australia. The 23rd Festival was a musical feast held in glorious autumn weather. Acts ranged from […]
Cosmic American Music is hard to define, and often easier to define by what it’s not. Michael Grimshaw in his essay “Redneck Religion and Shitkickin’ Saviours? Gram Parsons, Theology and Country Music” writes: “Parsons’ mission was the creation of a new way forward, […]
One valuable source for my columns is the comments and discussions people write on the various hangouts and forums devoted to bluegrass and acoustic music that I subscribe to, including The Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum and the Mandolin Café. Those […]
One valuable source for my columns is the comments and discussions people write on the various hangouts and forums devoted to bluegrass and acoustic music that I subscribe to, including The Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum and the Mandolin Café. Those […]
The Americana Music Show is a podcast full of hand-picked, road-tested music to turn your commute into a road-trip. On this week’s episode Calvin is featuring a doubleshot of country soul music from a fun band called the Yellow Bellied […]
Longtime contributing photographer and ND’s first photo section editor C. Elliott recently received the Rialto Theatre’s Michael McGrath Partnership Award. It is a community partnership award for her impact on the downtown Tucson, Arizona, community, and her dedication to and […]
Blue Rodeo’s catalog is vast and filled with so many outstanding albums that it’s easy to overlook the excellent solo albums released through the years by members of the Canadian band. A new album, Constellation, was just released by Jim […]
Chuck Berry was a walking contradiction. An inquisitive and highly intelligent student, born into a stable middle class family, who found himself incarcerated at 19 after an armed robbery spree with a broken pistol. A black man in his thirties […]
