Photographing a Justin Townes Earle concert has become a real pleasure. First of all, I absolutely like his music and I think his songwriting is up there with any other musician known for their writing. It seems I wind up […]
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Two women, both decades older than I, sit at two separate tables in an old bakery down on the Lower East Side. The floor, red with flecked tiles, is even more glaring in the harsh fluorescent overhead lights. The tables […]
It’s rewarding, as a music fan, to observe how a favorite artist grows, matures, and evolves from one album to the next. It’s like spending a time with an old friend when it’s been years since your last visit — […]
What is it that makes Justin Townes Earle so unique? Even as he carries two names that could easily weigh him down—and maybe it has in the past, but not today. He was named after his father, Steve Earle’s mentor […]
Justin Townes Earle has put a little more pep in his step. Following his heavier companion records Single Mothers (2014) and Absent Fathers (2015), he seems to have found some buoyancy in his new release Kids in the Street. Perhaps […]
by Skip Anderson Thirty-five years ago, Justin Townes Earle was born to Americana royalty and given the middle name of the man who arguably is the genre’s founding father. Today, the younger Earle continues to follow in the footsteps of […]
Thousands, maybe millions, of words have been written about the effect crowdfunding has had on young independent artists who no longer have to endure the often arbitrary grind of the label system and can release new music by appealing directly […]
I’ve seen Bill DeVille around the “halls” of the Americana Music Conference for a number of years. I finally struck up a conversation with him and immediately knew he was a kindred radio and music junkie. Bill Frater: Where and when […]
The last full-bore music festival I attended was the 2008 Austin City Limits Festival. A great three-day lineup of musicians, but I remember feeling like a disoriented steer in a roundup in the intense heat and the dust, and being […]
In my attempt to broaden the horizons of what radio people are doing, this week we head to Australia, and talk with Triple R DJ Denise Hylands. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio? Denise Hylands: Back in 1984, I had just […]
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