Emmylou Harris 9/23/11 Fox Theatre Tucson, AZ
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As a very small girl, Kimmie Rhodes was taught to sing by her dad, which sounds like a normal, sweet interaction between a father and a daughter doesn’t it? For Kimmie, it was different. Her father had been orphaned during […]
Monica Heldal’s 2014 debut album, Boy from the North, was described as part Americana, part bluegrass, and part Irish folk. But the Norwegian singer-songwriter points to another genre when discussing the best concert she has seen. Heldal, who is releasing […]
This is the first DJ profile where I didn’t know the person beforehand. It’s also the first DJ who has an “air name” and wishes to keep his anonymity sacred. I found Professor Purple through the Twang DJ Yahoo group, where like-minded air […]
This week we talk to Mary Tilson, who hosts a popular and long-running show on Berkeley, California’s powerful and ultra-liberal KPFA, which was the first listener-supported radio station in the United States. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio? What […]
By now you have read — or should have read — Kim’s piece on the Readers Poll, complete with its Top 50. If you followed the voting, Isbell’s Something More Than Free was first out of the gate and led wire to […]
To paraphrase the great Sinatra song, it was a very good year for No Depression. It was also a year of transition — the folks behind this publication streamlined both the website and the newsletter, and published the first print issue in seven years. […]
Like the Oscars, the Grammys have a tortured history. Each began not so much to reward outstanding efforts in their respective areas, but rather as a self-congratulatory promotional event that somewhat cynically purports to reward art. Sometimes they do reward the […]
It was by chance that Iris DeMent opened the book of Russian poetry sitting on her piano bench to Anna Akhmatova’s “Like A White Stone.” She’d never heard of the poet before, but a friend had loaned her the anthology, […]
“I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham/If I thought I could see, I could see your face.” – Emmylou Harris The year 1975 is notable for many things, including significant albums by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell, […]
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