Game recognizes game: On their new album, All This Time, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams borrow from another prominent Americana couple, Buddy and Julie Miller. Their searing take on the Millers’ “I Love You” matches the almost scarily intense devotion […]
A few years ago, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams opened their set with their version of the old gospel song “Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning.” The moment started quietly enough, with Campbell’s chicken-picked guitar in his slow blues slide […]
While I’ve often struggled to find the enduring value of year-end lists of music, I’ve now come to think of such lists as thank-you notes to the artists whose music and lyrics have brightened my days, lifted me out of […]
We’ve made it to the end of a rough week – the senseless murder of dozens of people gathered to enjoy music together, the death of beloved rock icon Tom Petty, [insert your preferred target of outrage here]. Thank heavens we have […]
If you thought all the significant releases of the year were already out, think again: 2017 is shaping up as a banner year for roots Channel and Americana music. Here are ten more, some already on everyone’s radar, and some […]
As soon as Larry Campbell’s bright lead slides into a minor chord on the first verse of this album’s opening song, “The Other Side of Pain,” you know you’re entering a darker and more shadowy world than the world of […]
The anguish of pain lies within the sweetness of love like a fisted glove in a rose. The agony of love gone wrong twists our hearts and churns our souls even more when our lovers betray us. How do we […]
Levon Helm’s Midnight Rambles were in full rolling glory in the winter of 2011. One Saturday night that December had long been anticipated — for starters, Donald Fagen would be joining Levon’s band that evening. But there were also two guest acts on […]
Larry and Teresa Campbell have been together long enough that certain details of their married life get blurred. Before introducing the opening track from their debut album, the New York born guitarist mentioned that his wife didn’t remember that the first words […]
