Country music, like the blues, depends on authenticity to escape the tendency to become its own caricature. Often this is harder to achieve than it appears, especially in country, where the symbols of the everyman have been co-opted by dumbed-down […]
Barbed Wire, opens with a drumbeat like the pure sure-fired rhythm of a strong passionate heartbeat. Then, singer-songwriter, Sarah Pierce launches into a familiar tag line for the Americana musical landscape: ”I grew up living in a small town,” she […]
