This year, y’all. This bafflingly, uncompromisingly bad year affects the mind in strange ways. Sometimes the synapses spark ineffectively through sludge. Sometimes the sense of defeat is overwhelming, inescapable. And sometimes one is overcome by a sort of punch-drunk giddiness […]
Tom Gillam is not only a recording artist but also a morning DJ in New Braunfels, TX, which is outside of San Antonio and home of the classic honky-tonk Gruene Hall. He also hosts the Cosmic Power Hour on KNBT and still […]
Giving Live at the Barn a spin transports me right away to upstate New York — wide streets with colorful brownstones, barber’s poles perched on corners, weekend parades through town, fireworks, and happy farmlands sprawled out across the horizon. Close your eyes and you’re spending […]
When Ray Wylie Hubbard took the outdoor main stage in the wake of a New Mexico cloudburst late on the third day of the Second Annual Music on the Mesa (MOM) Festival at Taos Mesa Brewing, the sound got hot, loud, […]
Jason Samuel is a regular attendee at the Americana Music Association Conference in Nashville every year. When I’ve seen him there, I’ve always appreciated his enthusiasm for the music and for radio. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in […]
