Now that Nashville has a successful Americana radio station in WMOT, I’ve been listening to the station while poking around the website. I was intriguged by a weekend show hosted by a musicologist and performing musician named Greg Reish. Bill Frater: Where and when […]
It’s already a pretty stacked summer music season, but Neil Young is adding some fuel to the fire with the announcement of his new album Hitchhiker. Out August 4, the album features previously unreleased music recorded in 1976. The albums’s […]
Some die-hard Neil Young fans have mentioned that the mercurial rocker’s most recent live shows with Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real are the best ones he has ever performed. I have found that hard to believe, because I […]
Jeremy Nail wasn’t aiming for a complex album when he recorded My Mountain last year. “When I started working on this group of songs, I wanted to make something simple and poignant,” says the Austin-based singer-songwriter. “There was an intimacy […]
Online and in the pages of our quarterly journal, we’ve talked a lot about how music and politics intersect. I think it’s safe to say we’re not onboard with the “shut up and sing” crowd. Sometimes musicians make a statement […]
Some fans regard the Posies as one of America’s great power-pop bands, but singer/songwriter/guitarist Ken Stringfellow wishes the Seattle-based band would be looked at in a different way. “I’d like to be remembered for our songwriting,” says Stringfellow, who co-founded […]
My first dirtbox pedal was given to me as a gift by St. Louis’s one and only mastering engineer, Brad Sarno. He gave it up without hesitation when I said that I liked how well it warmed my Marshall tube […]
It has been too easy in recent years to dismiss Neil Young as an eccentric crank, to quit paying attention. As topical and timely as its material may be, Peace Trail (out Dec. 9 on Reprise) is as close to […]
Forty years have passed since the the Band walked out on the stage on Thanksgiving for their farewell concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom. It was one of the landmark concerts in rock and roll history and, arguably, the greatest […]
Where do great songs come from? Author, Fredrick Buechner, says his prose comes from the place where he dreams. John Prine compared songwriting to fishing as he refers to ‘catching’ songs. For North Carolina singer-songwriter, Mitch Hayes, his best songs […]
