I guess it’s time to call you out. Over the last few years, the selection committee had been announcing nominees that made many folks scratch their head and wonder. It seems that the ballots sent out to your over 600 […]
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Talk about true love. Matilda Scaduto and Diadorius Bryant met in the spring of 1945 in Milwaukee. She…..a hotel elevator operator of Italian descent, and he…..a musician from Georgia. Two days after meeting, they eloped and settled down in Moultrie, […]
I’ve gotten to know Tim Lynch from seeing him at festivals and emcee-ing at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. I immediately liked him for his passion for music, and I quickly learned he brought that same enthusiasm and dedication to all his endeavors. […]
“I’m an old hippy and I don’t know what to do, should I hang on to the old should I grab onto the new?” – The Bellamy Brothers, 1985 That condundrum was a hit three decades ago, when the Bellamy […]
I travelled to Manchester for this gig, since like too many darn American musicians Margo Price was not gracing Oxford this time round. I was keen to go because there has been a fair amount of hype around Price and […]
When Jay Dee Maness started playing pedal steel guitar at age 10, he certainly couldn’t have imagined that 13 years later he would be playing on one of the most important albums in the history of pop music. Maness was […]
There are a number of ways I could characterize my entry into country music fandom. And probably in a few months’ time I’ll be using that line again and choosing a different example (it’s a cheap opener, okay?) – but […]
Great songwriters can slay us with their humanity, their willingness to say the things we won’t say, to play the sounds that awaken parts of us we never knew existed. Roots music is full of those songwriters, whether it’s Hayes […]
Posthumous releases are always hit-or-miss. After all, demos and rehearsals were never created to be shared with the general public. And, while they can provide collectors and completists with some perspective into the mind of an artist, they don’t always […]
Hiding out in the upper right corner of the states, in Rhode Island, we have “Boudin” Dan Ferguson, whose philosophy and “work” ethic I greatly appreciate. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio? What other stations have you […]
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