Laura Marling’s latest album, Patterns in Repeat, was inspired by the birth of Marling’s daughter and the singer-songwriter’s initiation into motherhood, but still covers broad thematic ground. Throughout the venture, Marling reflects on her life and the world into which […]
Listening is inevitably a subjective process. That said, I do my best to practice suspending or expanding my default filters in order to be more receptive to forms of aesthetic excellence that might not be congruent with my preferences. For […]
The use of the music video has long been part of the promotional kit, the combination of image and sound an effective vehicle to enroll the senses (and checkbooks) of potential viewers / listeners. In addition, in a field where […]
The holidays are nearly upon us, so why not give the gift of vinyl this year? Lots of younger folks (sometimes referred to as hipsters) are looking to get into vinyl, and those dusty old covers of ’70s country stars […]
It began a couple weeks back, when Eliza Gilkyson asked me, “Where does folk music fit within the Americana genre?” She asked it somewhat rhetorically, somewhat quizzically, since she has always regarded herself as a folksinger. I have ruminated on […]
I’m in Albuquerque, stop #1 on a southwest book tour for my latest collection, strange theater. I had a friend who lived in this city for years, a small home out near the petroglyphs, and who was murdered in 2014. […]
When you can lay claim to being the longest running music television show in America, it seems only fitting that you create a hall of fame to honor those that have been apart of it. Over the course of 41 […]
