There’s an unerring sense of both comfort and vision in the music country singer Laura Cantrell has made over the last two decades. The singer came up in the New York City alt-country scene of the late 1990s and early […]
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ODE TO BOBBIE GENTRY: CELEBRATING A LIVING LEGEND TRIBUTE SHOW FOR COUNTRY MUSIC CULT HEROINE OCTOBER 30TH AT THE BELLHOUSE IN BROOKLYN In 1967, Bobbie Gentry released the Billboard chart topping and Grammy-winning single, “Ode to Billie Joe,” and […]
The original title for this week’s column was “Fish and Music I’ve Caught in the Stream,” and while it was pretty easy to collect some great music from playlists and recommendations on the various digitized platforms that I jump around […]
You know how sometimes there are three volcano disaster movies that all come out at the same time? That’s kind of what happened with Nick Hornby’s novel Juliet, Naked. By complete serendipity, Perry Serpa began work on an album inspired […]
Has it really been two months since my last update on new and recent releases? Well, a lot has happened during that time — not the least of all some more-than-noteworthy releases, roots and more. All of these are, one way or […]
It was a heady and rambunctious year, from bossa novas heard in New York supper clubs to dirt floor juke joints (yes, a few still exist, figuratively at least). It has been satisfying and rewarding time. I view end-of-the-year lists […]
Laura Cantrell has consistently posited herself as a fan first and foremost, not only through her duties as a DJ at famed freeform station WFMU, but also with her 2000 debut album, Not The Tremblin’ Kind. On the latter, she […]
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