Shawn Colvin with Teresa Williams and Larry Campbell at the Troubadour in West Los Angeles
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Shawn Colvin with Teresa Williams and Larry Campbell at the Troubadour in West Los Angeles
Shawn Colvin with Teresa Williams and Larry Campbell at the Troubadour in West Los Angeles
Twenty years ago, Shawn Colvin released A Few Small Repairs, a lustrous poetic masterpiece painted in broad swaths on life’s torn and tattered canvas. The album contains some of Colvin’s most memorable work, including “You and the Mona Lisa,” “Nothin’ […]
Crowdfunding Campaigns of the Week will be taking a break next weekend as I will be on-site covering the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival for No Depression. But before we go, we have one more batch of campaigns to send […]
It took until the middle of the final day at 30A Songwriters Festival, as Caroline Spence was singing in a dark tent about watered-down whiskey, for me to remember that not everyone in the audience was a songwriter. For many […]
When Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival began in 2001, at the urging of fellow West Virginia native Hazel Dickens, it was called Strictly Bluegrass. But, in 2004, in order to reflect the wider changes in roots music, the word “Hardly” was added. […]
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 […]
What is Americana? I heard that question asked many times this past week in Nashville, by first-timers and folks who knew nothing about AmericanaFest. I do not attempt to answer that as I subscribe to what Charles Mingus said about jazz: […]
Sixteen years into the annual Americana Music Association Conference and Festival, the event shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, what attendees used to casually refer to as a sort of miniature SXSW gathering for roots music people has […]
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