In addition to profiling DJs for this column (I am open to suggestions BTW), I also like to include some artists that I admire and feel that need to be recognized more. People like Rick Shea. Bill Frater: What got you […]
In addition to profiling DJs for this column (I am open to suggestions BTW), I also like to include some artists that I admire and feel that need to be recognized more. People like Rick Shea. Bill Frater: What got you […]
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. […]
The summer may be over, but there is plenty of dancing in the street that will greet this fall’s outstanding slate of releases from a variety of folks. A couple of legends, a couple that should be legends by now, some […]
It’s great to see so many “low power” FM radio stations popping up across the country like Richmond, Va.’s WRIR-LP, where Garry Morse does his “Lost Music Saloon” show on. And, for the first time, a DJ mentions classical music as a favorite […]
This is the first DJ profile where I didn’t know the person beforehand. It’s also the first DJ who has an “air name” and wishes to keep his anonymity sacred. I found Professor Purple through the Twang DJ Yahoo group, where like-minded air […]
Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark traces the life of music pioneer Guy Clark, who, with his wife Susanna, shaped the contemporary folk and American roots music scene much like F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald […]
West Texas meets Southeast Asia in this reissue of an album long considered an oddball curiosity even within the curious career of Terry Allen. Something of a chicken-fried Renaissance man, the native Texan (long based in New Mexico) has earned […]
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