This month marks the seventh year that I’ve been a featured writer and columnist at No Depression. I began to put words into pixels at the beginning of the post-print era, when this roots music community initally came together from a group of hardcore follwers spawn from […]
Interstate 20 spans 1,535 miles, from Texas to South Carolina. It’s highly possible that Lucinda Williams has a memory – if not a song – for every stop on this highway that snakes through her native region. On her new […]
I have been a huge fan of Derek Trucks for years, having first come across him through the Allman Brothers Band. Leaving aside the connection with Uncle Butch Trucks, mainstay of the ABB’s rhythm section, Derek embodied everything Duane stood […]
A New Solo Album – Ashes & Dust From Storied Guitarist Warren Haynes Featuring Railroad Earth Grammy-Award winning vocalist-songwriter and admired guitarist Warren Haynes will release a new solo studio album featuring the Americana band Railroad Earth and entitled Ashes & Dust on July 24 2015 via the […]
On October 29, 1971, Duane Allman, the soulful lead guitarist who passionately wove expressive and fluid guitar solos into the music of iconic artists like Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, King Curtis, Derek and the Dominoes, and the Allman Brothers, died […]
The Allman Brothers Band had it all planned last March, celebrating 45 years with a farewell concert at the Beacon Theater. They’ve held court there nearly every year since 1989. Closing out that run this March 2014 would have been […]
