This week we’ve got a stack of new releases from some longtime alt-country heroes — including the Jayhawks, Rodney Crowell, and Cowboy Junkies. The Jayhawks — our Spotlight artist for July — have recorded for their own a batch of […]
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The concept of an artist with a multidecade career releasing re-recorded or “unplugged” versions of material originally performed to great success decades prior is too-trodden ground. It’s become a trope, an easy way for a legacy artist to cash in […]
Rodney Crowell closed 2017’s magnificent Close Ties with “Nashville 1972,” a warts-and-all recounting of his first year in Music City surrounded by the likes of Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. Those giants are no longer on this plane, but […]
Rodney Crowell performs a pool deck show on Cayamo 2017
Rodney Crowell performs a pool deck show on Cayamo 2017
One the things I have tried to do with the new and upcoming releases theme of this column to give some exposure to artists and their outstanding albums that might otherwise might either fall through the cracks or not get […]
While I’ve often struggled to find the enduring value of year-end lists of music, I’ve now come to think of such lists as thank-you notes to the artists whose music and lyrics have brightened my days, lifted me out of […]
Singer-songwriters in the round
Rodney Crowell performing on Cayamo 2017
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