Last year I did an article on five artists not to miss at the Americana Music Association Festival. Try as I might, this year with over 200 artists performing over six days at fourteen venues I find it impossible to narrow it […]
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Apart from a memorable solo show dedicated to Townes van Zandt, I’ve always seen Steve Earle with the Dukes (and the occasional Duchess). This was the first duo for me and not having heard the new record, I approached Steve’s collaboration […]
In the interests of full disclosure I admit right here at the start that there is no way this is going to be an unbiased review. I’m not some kind of “journalist.” I love Steve Earle. Actually I sort of love […]
When Ray Wylie Hubbard took the outdoor main stage in the wake of a New Mexico cloudburst late on the third day of the Second Annual Music on the Mesa (MOM) Festival at Taos Mesa Brewing, the sound got hot, loud, […]
As usual, there always seems to be exciting releases on the horizon. While I cannot cover everything, here is my fourth edition of some outstanding new roots muisc releases heading our way in the next few weeks. Accompanied, of course, by ND’s […]
It’s unfortunately happened to too many talented musicians. They release record after record and get good reviews, but — for reasons sometimes unexplainable — the albums don’t sell. Consider Dirk Hamilton, who released four albums on big labels — two […]
As I continue to spotlight some amazingly dedicated radio programmers from other countries, Dutch DJ Jos Van den Boom is the first to mention the universal, worldwide question of what to do with all the CDs we accumulate. Bill Frater: Where […]
When I was a kid, the place was called Spec’s Music — a chain store that sat at the far corner of a WalMart shopping center. My development as a musician and music fan could be traced by the albums […]
This week, I’m featuring Cayamo’s Journey through Song, a week-long floating music festival on the Norwegian Pearl. As you can read in the Southern Rambler’s articulate review of this year’s cruise, for many attendees, Cayamo is a musical family reunion — about 70 percent of […]
Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle debut their new material on Cayamo 2016. They will be embarking on a world tour this spring.
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