The great John Hiatt playing at this year’s Cayamo.
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What is Americana music? Yes, I know we have an entire association devoted to it. It’s now defined in the dictionary — I have the T-shirt to prove it — and we have this magazine that covers it. But what does […]
The song is a major ingredient of any sacred circle. It’s been true for centuries. In many cultures and tribes throughout history, the communal circle is something regarded as holy. It eventually leads to rhythm, dance, and stories. Then comes the […]
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Andy Hall of The Infamous Stringdusters was pondering just how many different songs the band has been playing in its live show. His sound engineer recently surprised him with the answer. “He’s become sort of our archivist,” Hall says by […]
Just over two years ago Lilly Hiatt and the Dropped Ponies entered the Americana market with their fake it ‘til you make it, feisty ‘Let Down.’ For Ms. Hiatt the album was partly a travelogue of her introduction to the […]
Grammy nominations were announced today (except Best Album, which is an announcement that comes tonight), and I thought I’d throw together a Cliff’s Notes version highlighting the categories and people we ND’ers actually give a flip about (it’s a long […]
As they have throughout so much of John Hiatt’s career, the twin themes of love’s redemption and time’s inexorable passage find a common denominator (much as they did in Slow Turning) in his first release since 2005. The North Mississippi […]
If John Hiatt was once America’s answer to Elvis Costello and the other angry young men of the British new wave, then he, like them, is approaching middle age jagged and subdued. Don’t be fooled by the Mexican wrestler on […]
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