“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” — Tennessee Williams In the midst of these more than troubling times, as even more walls are being erected to separate us, as […]
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It is shaping up to be, to quote Frank Sinatra, a very good year. Music-wise, at least. Given the strength of the albums below, and with nearly another six months to go, it will be a mind bender to put […]
As radio show Mountain Stage begins its 35th season this coming weekend, it’s an opportune time to look back at this past season, some highlights, and one significant event. (Here’s a link to a previous column devoted to the show’s history.) […]
When you enter the stage entrance at the Culture Center on the grounds of the State Capitol Complex in Charleston, West Virginia, where Mountain Stage calls home, you pass half a dozen or so poster boards on easels that list the date […]
It has been an invigorating year for me in music: I saw nearly all of the Mountain Stage performances, a dozen or so festivals from Big Ears in March to Shakori Hills in October, many dozens of stand alone performances […]
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between Nellie Mckay celebrated the release of first album, Get Away From Me, in 2004 by appearing at the SXSW festival that March. Little did the indie and […]
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