As we’re deep into the holiday season, you can’t help but hear the jingle-jangle Christmas music that is played endlessly at every store and mall in America from Thanksgiving to New Year’s. While some people seem to add a pep […]
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Somewhere last night, a child was born while his dad was at a gig. A wife worried at home, anxious about her husband on the road. A teenage boy looked into the stands to see if his father had managed to […]
‘Tis the season of ghosts and goblins, trips to the pumpkin patch and apple orchard, lots of candy and a reminder to visit your dentist. While some live in a climate without benefit of experiencing the change of seasons, this […]
I would imagine most people know Compton as the epicenter of late ‘80s hip-hop and a city dominated by crime and gang violence. Smack in the middle between Long Beach and Los Angeles, just south of Watts, back in the […]
Although Napa Valley used to be known as the place for fine wines, there are now grape-growing regions all over the US. Just west of Napa is the picturesque Sonoma Valley, where we find a small community radio station, KSVY, where Timothy […]
Wayne Henderson brought his massive array of musical skills to Virginia Beach, VA, recently. With his acoustic partner, Helen White, Wayne played a showcase of traditional and popular tunes along with two of Helen’s original waltzes. Another in a strong […]
Peter Cooper, the Senior Director, Producer, and Writer at the Country Music Hall of Fame, hits home runs every time he steps up to the plate. When he was covering music for the Tennessean, you could count on Cooper to deliver […]
Bluegrass music spent about four decades doing its best to try to establish a unique genre fully separated from country music. The origin came, as this column has often pointed out, on Dec. 8, 1945, with the addition of Earl […]
About a week after last November’s presidential election, I started getting emails from writers who were working on stories for this issue, asking for extensions. Though a couple of them had to do with the typical things — tracking down […]
The ‘Way out West’ Series No 1 Music hath charms. Music hath charms. And, among those charms is its uncanny ability to forge bonds of fellow feeling and friendship between people born in wildly different times, places and cultures. […]
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