A new year arrives full of promise of what’s to come, and while there may be plenty to dread, depending on your politics or personal situation, at least music seems poised to delight us — and soon! The past week […]
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The tavern floor is littered with the detritus of year-end lists, torn up in disgust or frustration or mild disagreement. What’s next? What comes to take the place of the short-lived glory of the books that sit on shelves unopened […]
When you enter the stage entrance at the Culture Center on the grounds of the State Capitol Complex in Charleston, West Virginia, where Mountain Stage calls home, you pass half a dozen or so poster boards on easels that list the date […]
Rodney Crowell once told me that talking about songwriting is “like doing card trick on the radio.” Everyone who’s ever sat down to write a song quickly discovers the challenge she faces in coming up with a subject about which […]
This week, I’m featuring the photos of C. Elliott from Tucson, Arizona. While she and I have chatted about photography for quite some time, I was unaware till recently that we lived in Cincinnati during the same time, she in high school […]
NIGHT 1 of 5 Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016 On any given night, Nashville can an embarrassment of riches when it comes to entertainment options. And this week AmericanaFest compounds that “problem” for fans of roots-rooted music. Take opening night for […]
Country singer, guitarist, and songwriter Chely Wright’s coming out as a lesbian in May of 2010 not only liberated a woman from a secret she’d held since she was eight years old; it inflamed preexisting concerns within Music Row about […]
Americana Fest 2016 has ended. Once again, it was six nights and five days when an international community gathered around its common love and respect for a kind of music that is raw, honest, earnestly human, universal. We could break it […]
Guy teamed up with producer/engineer Miles Wilkinson again for 1992’s Boats to Build after being courted by Kyle Lehning, who had been hired to manage the Nashville office for the revamped Asylum Records label. Lehning released Boats to Build as […]
There was a sign backstage at the Guy Clark tribute concert at the Ryman that said: “Guy’s songs are more interesting than your stories.” But that didn’t stop people from talking and by the next morning, there were still Guy […]
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