There is nothing finer than Gillian Welch and David Rawlings at the Ryman – and no one I’d rather see there. Like the Ryman itself, one does not see or hear Welch and Rawlings; one experiences them. You come under their […]
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Singer -songwriter Eric Taylor’s roots run deep in Texas soil even though he began life in Atlanta, Georgia. But, most of his life has been lived out in Houston, Texas. His first musical love was rhythm & blues. However, he […]
With the deaths of such prominent artists as Prince and Leonard Cohen making headlines in 2016, you may have missed the fact that we also lost the great Guy Clark, who passed away in May. He crafted cogent, plainspoken, memorable […]
Of the making of many “best-of” lists there is no end. Many magazines and newspapers have already weighed in on the best albums or the best books of the year. At best, such lists remind us of some books we […]
Very few music biographies or music memoirs tell compelling stories in a spellbinding way. Most of these books flit fitfully across our view, scattering ephemeral bits in their wake, and leaving few memories of the lives and art of the […]
Guy teamed up with producer/engineer Miles Wilkinson again for 1992’s Boats to Build after being courted by Kyle Lehning, who had been hired to manage the Nashville office for the revamped Asylum Records label. Lehning released Boats to Build as […]
Australian singer-songwriter Bill Jackson didn’t set out to have a career in music, at least not at first. But it kept calling to him. And once he got the right guitar and the right people in his life, he answered […]
During a chance encounter with celebrated Scottish singer-songwriter Norrie McCulloch at SummerTyne 2016 the conversation somehow turned to Guy Clark. By sheer coincidence I had received this book the previous day and was wondering if (at all) I could fit in the […]
There was a sign backstage at the Guy Clark tribute concert at the Ryman that said: “Guy’s songs are more interesting than your stories.” But that didn’t stop people from talking and by the next morning, there were still Guy […]
The summer may be over, but there is plenty of dancing in the street that will greet this fall’s outstanding slate of releases from a variety of folks. A couple of legends, a couple that should be legends by now, some […]
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