Rod Picott so vividly conveys the lives of those on the edge, struggling to earn a living or those just too exhausted to carry on. Much of his inspiration is personal; he has lived that life himself. A trademark of […]
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Rod Picott is one of our too-little-known songwriting treasures. Like Hemingway, he peers into the jangly tentativeness of the relationships between men and women. Like Harry Crews, he captures the spectral gothic shadows that haunt rural settings. Like Townes Van […]
A great poet and storyteller needs only a guitar to deliver the emotional rawness of soul searching and the ragged desperation of trying to come to terms with one’s place in the world. East Nashville’s Rod Picott creates stark, haunting, […]
Karen Miller, host of The Miller Tells Her Tale podcast and Now That’s Americana on CMR Nashville, was one of the first music podcasters I heard and I always admired her passion, as well as her Scottish accent. Now we get to find out about her […]
After over 20 years of consistantly excellent albums, Slaid Cleaves comes full circle with the release of Ghost on the Car Radio, on his own Candy House Media label. In a preview, Joseph Hudak of Rolling Stone called Cleaves “a master […]
As summer winds on, the number of new crowdfunding campaigns continues to be down (among roots musicians anyway. Summer seems to be peak crowdfunding season for heavy metal acts). But there are always a few new campaigns worth talking about. […]
“Confucius say: before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” With that opening statement Anne McCue launched into her first song of the evening, “Dig Two Graves” from her newest album Blue Sky Thinkin’. Anne, who hails […]
Part One: 1980 In December 1980, I was 16 years old and living in the small mill town of South Berwick, Maine. Maine School Administrative District #35 was comprised of the two towns of South Berwick and Eliot, where Marshwood High […]
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