Tom Russell is nothing if not a dedicated advocate for creative Americana. Just two years ago he released “Aztec Jazz” , a compendium of his songs preformed live with the Norwegian Wind Ensemble. He has now created a massive opus […]
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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 […]
Tom’s ancestral and musical triptych finally reaches fruition – Tá sé iontach, tá sé go hálainn More decades ago than he’d probably care to be reminded, Thomas George Russell graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a […]
there ain’t no boat, there ain’t no train to take us back the way we came ain’t no shelter from this hard rain the cure for the pain is the pain Writing this I am weeks away from the death […]
Mary Gauthier’s ‘breakthrough’ album, Mercy Now (2005) was continuously “discovered” and lauded for the two years following its release, earning mentions on a score of year-end “best of” lists, including the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and No Depression. […]
Nashville singer-songwriter Gretchen Peters’ new album Blackbirds is out early in the year, but I am not going to review it as a whole. Suffice it to say that it is good and that parts of it were redolent of Leonard […]
You have to watch the quiet ones. Sometimes the loudest truths are served with a whisper. Gretchen Peters, who has written some of country’s most intelligent songs of life’s complications, offers a hushed benediction for a woman emerging from the […]
Gretchen Peters has done her part to make country radio a tad less unbearable. She wrote George Strait’s “Chill Of An Early Fall” and Martina McBride’s “Independence Day”, two of those mainstream artists’ most respectable hits. And now that success […]
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