If there’s an award that honors trailblazing, it’s hard to imagine it not coming to k.d. lang sooner or later. From the very start of her career, lang has done things (including capitalization) her own way, creating music that’s fresh […]
This past year has been a banner one for live music. I thought what better way to kick off all the year-end reviews than with the folks who most likely attend more performances than almost anyone else — photographers. Even […]
Country singer, guitarist, and songwriter Chely Wright’s coming out as a lesbian in May of 2010 not only liberated a woman from a secret she’d held since she was eight years old; it inflamed preexisting concerns within Music Row about […]
Aside from family bands, there is no stronger thread in American roots music than the power of a strong collaboration. Whether it’s the importance of paying one final tribute to a great artist who has passed away (see: Allen Toussaint), […]
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 […]
David Torn performing live recently at SubCulture in New York City. Photo © Claire Stefaniat David Torn plays at the The Jazz Estate Few guitarists can make their instrument sound larger more or expansive than David Torn. He’s a self-described “guitarist/texturalist” and […]
Cowpunk, chanteuse, pop crooner, cover artist: K.D. Lang has hung out her share of stylistic shingles over the years, the one constant being her outsized personality and frequently outsized voice. Watershed has no such obvious selling points, but that doesn’t […]
When K.D. Lang’s country-punk act landed her a major-label contract in the late 1980s, it’s safe to say the country music establishment never quite got the joke. “Our music was not well received in Nashville,” Lang says in the Reintarnation […]
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