September is upon us and while that is just another ordinary month for most folks, it’s a big one for fans of roots music. September is the month where several thousand of us take over Nashville for a week to […]
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The best music takes on a life of its own, but it’s important for fans to ensure it doesn’t become a shut-in. Consider rock and roll’s recent slide in popularity (to some extent at the hands of the banjo). Rock may […]
This story first appeared in the online edition of the Madison weekly Isthmus. By Marc Eisen Well, that was embarrassing! I nodded off listening to overly ambient music at the Arts + Literature Laboratory, the great new creative space at […]
Speaking from personal experience, I can tell you that programming and managing an internet radio station is a labor of love. It also might just be the future of radio. Danny Birch of Radio Vagabond certainly has a passion for music, which […]
When considering the handful of radio stations across the country that play various kinds of roots music, WDVX in Knoxville aways comes up near the top of the list. So this week I talked to their music director, Nelson Gullett. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start […]
Story time with Billy Joe. (Kids, leave the room.)
A touch of Texas in New York never comes amiss, and on December 17 Billy Joe Shaver brought much more than a touch along with him and his top-flight band. Celebrated songwriter, singer, raconteur, and man who loves living, 75-year-old […]
Dressed in a faded denim jacket, shirt, jeans, and beat-up brown cowboy hat, Billy Joe Shaver strode onstage and unceremoniously dropped his jacket and plastic bottle of water in front of a monitor, waved to the crowd and launched into […]
Billy Joe Shaver’s tenacity is legendary; from parental abandonment, hard farm labor, two severed fingers and an eighth-grade education, he became an outsider songwriter in Nashville and graduated with Waylon Jennings’ Honky Tonk Heroes. His perseverance as a performer grew […]
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