My wife and I first drove up the steep hill to the top of the Wilkes Community College campus in late April of 2003. We had heard of the groundbreaking music festival known as MerleFest several years earlier, but now we […]
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When considering the handful of radio stations across the country that play various kinds of roots music, WDVX in Knoxville aways comes up near the top of the list. So this week I talked to their music director, Nelson Gullett. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start […]
Fayetteville, AR, is one of my five most favorite cities in the country. The northwest corner of Arkansas is an idyllic little area. Its rolling hills are covered in lush greenery and water springs out of everywhere. It’s full of […]
When you can lay claim to being the longest running music television show in America, it seems only fitting that you create a hall of fame to honor those that have been apart of it. Over the course of 41 […]
Tom Russell’s talent and penchant for experimentation have fueled some terrific projects over the course of his four-decade, 28-album career, but never more so than in recent years. In 2013, for example, he issued Aztec Jazz, a genre-bending classic that […]
Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark traces the life of music pioneer Guy Clark, who, with his wife Susanna, shaped the contemporary folk and American roots music scene much like F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald […]
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 […]
Imagine you’re in Austin about 30 years ago and you hear music coming from a little bar. You step inside this hole in the wall and see one of the most deservedly acclaimed singer/songwriters on the Texas music scene performing […]
Judging by the evidence here, a “workbench song” is one that Guy Clark has lovingly cobbled together, usually with an old friend or new, for no other reason than it sure is fun to cobble together songs while nursing cups […]
Editor’s Note: Guy Clark passed away on May 17, 2016, according to his longtime friend and colleague Tamara Saviano. In his memory, we’re re-running this cover story from 2002. May he rest in peace. Guy Clark lives on a quiet […]
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