Some albums are worth the wait. Back in 1979, Jim Lauderdale had come to Nashville, just out of college in North Carolina, to try to get something started in the music business and to make friends with George Jones and […]
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Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale
Group performance of Paradise at the John Prine trbute show on Cayamo
Jim Lauderdale and Brandi Carlile perform The Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
Labels matter. Record labels, that is. I came of age when my go-to labels were Flying Fish, Rounder, and ECM. They had not just an identity, a personality, they had taste. They knew what was good and filled in the […]
Festivals often seem intended to test one’s endurance. Multiple stages demand that choices be made, oftentimes at the expense of missing one artist in order to see another. Dragging yourself the distance between far-flung venues drains both time and energy […]
Something very exciting is happening in central Georgia, with Macon’s “The Creek” joining the group of full-time Americana roots-based radio stations. I love that they broadcast from downtown Macon. They are very community-based and their sound honors the South. Here’s a […]
Karen Miller, host of The Miller Tells Her Tale podcast and Now That’s Americana on CMR Nashville, was one of the first music podcasters I heard and I always admired her passion, as well as her Scottish accent. Now we get to find out about her […]
As I have seen some other folks writing about what the first six months of 2017 has brought to the world of roots music, I thought I’d chime in with some personal favorites. Before I get comments about why not this […]
We celebrated America’s Independence Day this week, but “Americana” music (whatever that is) celebrates music and musicians from all over. Take Jim Lauderdale, for example: His latest release, London Southern, takes a look at American soul music through the lens of […]
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