Perhaps best known for his country-radio hit “Honky Tonk Amnesia,” veteran singer/songwriter Scott McQuaig has just released a new album, A Song Away from You. Q: What was your introduction to music? How old were you, and how did it […]
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THE CICADAS WERE OUT in full force, buzzing in celebration as the August summer heat had mercifully subsided, at least for a few days. I ordered coffee (black) and took a seat at a tiny round table outside Caffé Driade, […]
One valuable source for my columns is the comments and discussions people write on the various hangouts and forums devoted to bluegrass and acoustic music that I subscribe to, including The Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum and the Mandolin Café. Those […]
One valuable source for my columns is the comments and discussions people write on the various hangouts and forums devoted to bluegrass and acoustic music that I subscribe to, including The Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum and the Mandolin Café. Those […]
In addition to profiling DJs for this column (I am open to suggestions BTW), I also like to include some artists that I admire and feel that need to be recognized more. People like Rick Shea. Bill Frater: What got you […]
Nashville already has the Johnny Cash Museum, the George Jones Museum, the Patsy Cline Museum, and, of course, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. As if that’s not enough, Music City is about to add another outlaw to its growing […]
Although the Grateful Dead formerly retired from performing together in 2015 with the series of five Fare Thee Well concerts in Santa Clara, CA and Chicago, IL, the band is certainly not gone. In fact, with a string of recent […]
Remembering the one and only “King of Western Swing” Bob Wills today, on this anniversary of his passing on May 13, 1975. If you own the landmark double album, “Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys – For the Last Time” […]
Anyone can rattle off the names of female artists who have made it big in just about any genre of music, but what about female producers? Women in the studio are still a relative rarity, and there aren’t many of […]
Bluegrass music spent about four decades doing its best to try to establish a unique genre fully separated from country music. The origin came, as this column has often pointed out, on Dec. 8, 1945, with the addition of Earl […]
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