Although vinyl LP sales hit a 28-year high in 2016, tallying $416 million in sales. CD sales, while still much larger, decayed as digital downloads, and then streaming, displaced physical media. Vinyl has spread from independent record stores to major retailers, from […]
There’s a difference between honoring your roots and getting mired in nostalgia. Just ask Jerry Douglas, whose Flatt & Scruggs-inspired Earls of Leicester straddles the gulf between those two concepts with poise and apparent ease. Despite the fact that they’re […]
Aaron Neville has spent much of his musical career harkening back to the classic eras of soul, doo-wop, gospel and crooning. But never has he fused the past and present in as galvanizing fashion as he does on Apache (out July […]
“I dreamed I saw St. Augustine Alive as you or me” – Bob Dylan “I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine” from John Wesley Harding 1967 St Augustine in Florida is America’s oldest continuously occupied European settlement. It was founded by […]
