I introduced myself to Greg Vandy at this year’s Americana Music Conference in Nashville, back in September. I knew he was cool because I saw him at all the good shows over the week and then at Arnold’s “meat & three” Country Kitchen. […]
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From the moment they met, Jon Anderson knew a musical collaboration with Roine Stolt would work. “When we first met two years ago, I knew we would speak the same musical language,” the renowned former Yes lead singer tells me […]
Jazz is usually not a part of Orenda Fink’s musical palette, but the 23rd Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival presented the best concert she has ever seen. Nina Simone stepped on the amphitheater stage at Chastain Park on May, 26, 2000, […]
On Jan. 8, 2016, David Bowie celebrated his 69th birthday — though quietly — and also released his new album, Blackstar, to wide critical acclaim. Bowie’s demonstrated his passionate musical genius by traversing musical borders, shifting sounds, forever trying out the […]
While Jason Isbell’s Something More Than Free may have taken the top spot in both the ND readers and critics polls, Rhiannon Giddens dominated the past year just as thoroughly as Isbell did in 2013. She was everywhere — touring North America as […]
Psychedelic Soul musician, Jordannah Elizabeth is releasing her second full record, A Rush , produced by Breck Omar Brunson (Apes) and Steve Kille (Dead Meadow). The record is more experimental in nature than Elizabeth’s first release, Bring to the Table […]
The year 2014 marked the 17th anniversary of Jeff Buckley’s passing, the 20th anniversary of the release of Grace (his only fully realized studio album), and this November 17th brings what would’ve been his 48th birthday. For the most recent […]
In the days before artists approved liner notes, jazz critic Nat Shapiro asked the following questions on the back jacket of the epochal Nina Simone In Concert: “Certainly there is no possibility — not the slightest — of being indifferent […]
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