Poster by Michael Cavanaugh from previously unpublished photo by Jeffrey Kliman. Can you name a musician Rolling Stone magazine puts five ahead of Tom Petty in their “Most Important Artists of All Time” list and who died over four decades […]
With the volume of books published every year, many books are forgotten almost as soon as they are published. This week’s column looks back at a handful of recent books that merit another look. Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the […]
In two weeks, a patch of pastureland near a small Montana town will be transformed into one of the premier music festivals in Big Sky Country, as the Red Ants Pants Music Festival kicks off in White Sulphur Springs. This […]
During a performance in Chicago last month, Emmylou Harris told Rodney Crowell that he was starting a song in the wrong key. He glided into his response: “She remembers the keys, but I remember all the words.” Indeed, after 40 […]
“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 […]
Shawn Colvin with Emmylou Harris and Buddy Miller There are some artists who should lean their catalog toward cover songs rather than original compositions. Shawn Colvin is not, however, one of them. As wonderful as she is as an interpreter […]
This past weekend, my bass-playing husband and I packed up our two boys and headed west from Austin to the Kerrville Folk Festival. Kerrville — a bastion of hippie songwriter-dom — is an 18-day festival in Texas’s gorgeous hill country. […]
The Birthplace of Country Music organisation has announced the release on May 12 2015 of Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited. This album celebrates the impact that the 1927 Bristol Sessions in Bristol (Virginia/Tennessee) had on the country music […]
After too many years as a relatively unknown artist, Gretchen Peters is finally getting her due. Critics are raving about her spectacular new album, Blackbirds, and in October she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Fellow musicians […]
What was going on back in 1995, when No Depression was founded? Well, to start with, Uncle Tupelo was no more. Son Volt debuted with Trace, while Wilco released A.M. Trace won the first round in that little set to, […]
