Taking in a show at the Ryman Auditorium is an otherworldly experience. Doesn’t matter if it’s a full band, singer/songwriter or when three giants of music decide they are going to tour together. That’s what you got why Ry Cooder, […]
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My wife and I first drove up the steep hill to the top of the Wilkes Community College campus in late April of 2003. We had heard of the groundbreaking music festival known as MerleFest several years earlier, but now we […]
(First published at Isthmus online.) MADISON WI: I searched for musical extremes in 2015. Jon Mueller’s prog drone (Shitty Barn, Spring Green, June 10), Gangstagrass’ confounding bluegrass hip-hop (the Frequency, Oct. 16), Tim Berne’s avant garde jazz (West End Conservatory, […]
My first “Through the Lens” weekly slideshow showcases eight artists who performed during the Americana Music Association Festival, which concluded two weeks ago in Nashville. However, as I was browsing the photos, I found that we had just two No Depression photographers […]
Cheryl White, Buck White and Ricky Skaggs on the Skaggs side of the stage.
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