Many of you who have been reading my articles over the past almost-ten years also follow my Facebook page, Americana and Roots Music Daily. I started it up about three years ago and it can best be described as an […]
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The end of the year is approaching, but new music releases haven’t gone in to hibernation just yet. Here to keep you WARM is a new album from Jeff Tweedy (you can also read a review of his brand new memoir right here), […]
Go By Ocean brings us a musical dream this afternoon with the new video and single for “Fading.” The piece which is heaven sent, brings a charming look into the world of Go By Ocean which has us on the […]
This fall, one music memoir stands above the gelatinous glut of words that have oozed onto bookshelves and into our lives. Jeff Tweedy’s Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. — the […]
Both the Wandering Hearts and Ruston Kelly should feel 2018 has been a good year. Their performances at London’s Islington Assembly Hall were ample evidence that each in their completely different ways should appear in several “best of 2018” lists. […]
In my last column, I mentioned that one of the things I was most looking forward to about my upcoming months off the road was practicing music. It’s difficult, bordering on impossible, to maintain a serious practice routine on tour, […]
The holidays are here again, and some of our favorite roots artists have gotten in the spirit this year by releasing new albums of music for the season. By and large, they’re not content to rehash the classics, either. They’ve […]
For years the only Christmas album I had was Ella Fitzgerald’s Wishes You a Swinging Christmas (1960). Not that I had anything against the holiday season, but they all seemed to contain the same songs sung in the same heartfelt […]
Despite the best efforts of my local big box store, which has been playing Christmas music since mid-October, to start it early, the holiday season now is officially upon us. This time of year sees an uptick in crowdfunding campaigns, […]
One of the preconditions for a great gig is that the artist/band are actually enjoying themselves on stage. This was the final night of their European tour, which may have given a supplementary boost to proceedings as Israel and his band […]
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