By 2012, Country Music had fully transformed from the gold-spun ballads of everyday tragedy into assembly-line pop, retrofitted with patriotic bromides and blue-collar pandering. Reigning jester of this unabashed profiteering, Dierks Bentley, penned the ultimate anthem of reductive garbage “Home” — […]
Amanda Shires at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN (March 11, 2016)
John Prine, Jason Isbell and Chris Smither at the Ryman Auditorium (March 11, 2016)
Here’s a Radio Friendly first: two brothers who share a radio show, “Tangled Roots” on WHUS, and we get answers from both of them. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio and what other stations have you worked at […]
Jason Isbell at Bluesfest Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
The festival market has gotten so saturated that, once the unofficial kickoff to festival season begins with Indio, California’s Coachella, you can count on at least one festival every weekend throughout the Summer. While there are plenty of genre-specific festivals […]
Modern day country music is a tough scene to break. There are the obvious barriers of the multi-billion dollar industy such as getting past the wall of producers and songwriters working on music row pumping out songs as if they […]
We began the year at the Celtic Connections in Scotland, then traveled to the Carrribean for the Cayamo Cruise. Last week, we hit SXSW in Austin, Texas, and now we head to another hotbed of Americana and roots music: Australia. It’s festival […]
