Last year at the Americana Music Conference in Nashville, I started talking to a guy about the nice Western shirt he was wearing and about how much I love Western shirts too. He told me his story about moving to the States […]
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Wedged between two holidays that celebrate heart and history, this year’s Folk Alliance International conference will be convening in Kansas City with over 2,500 attendees that include those who make the music, those who write about it, those who bring it […]
Everyone seems to be buzzing about a new disc about to drop form Galax, Virginia-based Dori Freeman, and it’s not even set for release until next week. Nonetheless, our pal Mike Seely has that bee in his bonnet and has […]
Every once in awhile, the great singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson—son of Richard and Linda—will get a clip of unsolicited music sent to him over the Internet. These tunes are typically bad to the point of amusement, he says, adding, “Unless you’re […]
What makes a vocalist great? Occasionally, you can point to a specific contributory factor—a four-octave range, for example, or a distinctive falsetto—but most of the time, the source of greatness is elusive. You just know it when you hear it. […]
Sometimes you listen to new music and it just takes a while to sink in. It’s not always that you need time to assimilate complexity when it’s presented to you – deep lyrics, layered meanings and arrangements, for example. No, […]
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