Musical cross-pollination among bluegrass players, country singers, and rock and rollers dates back to at least the 1960s folk revival, with the chasms between each genre narrowed ever since by genre-defiant acts ranging from The Byrds and the Grateful Dead […]
Mike and the Moonpies‘ Mockingbird came out in October 2015. I’ve been to their hometown of Austin Texas a handful of times but always managed to miss them. This top-shelf alt. country, rockabilly, honky tonk band has had weekly residencies at […]
Sometimes Lizz Wright, the minister’s daughter, and Allison Moorer, the ex-marine’s daughter, close in on a note and sound almost like the same woman, but they’re not. Their experiences of being female and southern and alive are entirely different, and […]
