If I was a baseball player you might say I’m in a slump. I feel as though, when I’m up to bat, I swing at air. If a ball speeds toward me, I reach up to catch but it just sails through […]
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Part One: 1980 In December 1980, I was 16 years old and living in the small mill town of South Berwick, Maine. Maine School Administrative District #35 was comprised of the two towns of South Berwick and Eliot, where Marshwood High […]
Ever since I started this column, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to learn the background and inside stories from these invisible radio “artists.” Scott Greenberg, who currently works in Charlotte, North Carolina, has bounced around different stations through the years, always […]
My grandfather liked to say he was an “Okie from Muskogee,” having lived in the Oklahoma town for a period before moving to East Texas with my grandmother. I remember him telling me this numerous times, especially when Merle Haggard’s […]
The life and death of horns in Americana music produced by Caucasians can be traced back to two classic rockers, Bruce Springsteen and Glenn Frey. Watching Springsteen on his River tour last month in Seattle, Jake Clemons—succeeding his late uncle […]
How do musicians’ memoirs really fare in a crowded market? As much as we might clamor to learn about the lurid details, the stories behind the songs, or the tragic or comic moments of the lives of our favorite artists, […]
I knew it was over when Britain’s largest supermarket chain, Tesco, announced that they would begin selling vinyl in their stores. Not raincoats or reclining chairs or shiny boots or garden hoses, but actual record albums. What has been a […]
Hello, America. If you’ve been not only under a rock but clean below ground lately, you will not know that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band embarked last month on The River Tour. When The River was released in 1980, […]
Interstate 20 spans 1,535 miles, from Texas to South Carolina. It’s highly possible that Lucinda Williams has a memory – if not a song – for every stop on this highway that snakes through her native region. On her new […]
Michael Timmins sees the newest Cowboy Junkies album, Notes Falling Slow, as “a nice stepping stone to whatever our next recording project will be.” The four-disc Notes Falling Slow, released in October, follows 2012’s wonderful five-disc box set, The Nomad […]
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