This past weekend, my bass-playing husband and I packed up our two boys and headed west from Austin to the Kerrville Folk Festival. Kerrville — a bastion of hippie songwriter-dom — is an 18-day festival in Texas’s gorgeous hill country. […]
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In the Atlanta suburb of Decatur, Georgia, there lies an intimate listening room called Eddie’s Attic. Eddie Owen opened it in 1992 and it’s long since become a premier stage for some of the best talent this country has to […]
My previous post was about venerable Fox Run House Concerts in Massachusetts, which has been running since 1997. Today I want to tell you about my absolute favorite gig in Austin, TX: Wyldwood Shows. Wyldwood is another house concert and, […]
So far I’ve written only about traditional music venues and festivals. But it’s time to start talking about the beauty of house concerts. To the uninitiated, a house concert might seem like a strange undertaking – show up to a stranger’s […]
In 2006, I was in the first year of my road-dogging, still fresh-faced, energetic, and full of my signature hopeful positivity. I had made a record with my dear friend Jim Brunberg, the owner of Mississippi Studios in Portland, who’s […]
In southern Utah there is a tiny town called Monroe, somewhere in the middle of Fishlake National Forest. Drive west of the stunning red rock and hoodoos of Moab and down a lonesome road. Go east off the highway and […]
I started playing gigs when I was 18. The first gig I ever played was at the Star E. Rose on NE Alberta Street in Portland. You couldn’t call it a club, really. It was a friendly coffee shop with […]
When Rebecca Loebe told me that she had scored us a gig at the Birchmere, I was thrilled. She and I were headed out on tour together in the fall of 2009. We had 35 shows in 33 days. Thankfully, […]
In my last column, I mentioned that the Kerrville Folk Festival is the main reason that I expatriated from Portland, OR and have found myself living in a 1972 ranch house in South Austin with a husband, two kids, and […]
What really got me into touring full time was my first trip to the Kerrville Folk Festival in 2005. Growing up in Portland, OR, I always figured there wasn’t much for me down in Texas, but an 18-day camping festival […]
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