A few weeks before his death in 1953, Hank Williams was having a problem getting through a matinee performance in San Diego due to an over-serving of what iconic country comedian Minnie Pearl referred to in her account of the […]
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Michael Ubaldini – ‘The Rock n roll Poet’ – is a singer songwriter of Raw Folk & roots music w 21st century words- the songs sound old and new at the same time -songs filled with Protest ,Social rebellion,sex,romance ,poetry […]
https://www.axs.com/interview-with-michael-ubaldini-16793
I didn’t plan to submit a column on this topic, but then again I rarely know what will spill out of my slightly scorched and damaged brain cells until I fire up the old 11” MacBook Air, turn up the […]
Click the album titles for reviews and song samples. Various Artists – At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight. There is no way to overstate the historical sweep and artistic brilliance of this 20-disc, 2-book box set. Raspberries – Pop Art Live. No band […]
Country music in America has long marketed towards and embodied an eclectic blend of common folk: typically, southern, lower-class, God-fearing, hard-working, blue-collar white men, found in Appalachian homes and hollers scattered well beneath the Mason-Dixon line. From the earliest decades […]
Hank Williams was one of the most prolific figures of country music in the first half of the 20th Century until his untimely departure from this cold, cold world in the backseat of a Cadillac on New Year’s Day in […]
Growing up in Westwood, Massachusetts, singer-songwriter Jenny Reynolds appreciated all of her mother’s records—except one. “Before I was old enough to go to school, my mom and I used to listen to her records, including the Kingston Trio, Bob Dylan, […]
Clad in a black hat onstage at Seattle’s Tractor Tavern on Thursday night, Sunny Sweeney remarked that she’d move to the Pacific Northwest in a heartbeat, just so she could wear a hat every day. But that wouldn’t feel quite […]
Bluegrass emerged out of a bubbling world of country music that was changing from a simply regional music in the 1920s into what became known as Country & Western and was sold to the world as appealing to a strong, but […]
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