This summer’s runaway small-screen “must see” TV show was HBO’s miniseries Sharp Objects, adapted from a book of the same name written by Gillian Flynn. I won’t spoil it for those who have yet to see it, but it takes […]
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Country music in America has long marketed towards and embodied an eclectic blend of common folk: typically, southern, lower-class, God-fearing, hard-working, blue-collar white men, found in Appalachian homes and hollers scattered well beneath the Mason-Dixon line. From the earliest decades […]
In 1960 I was an eight year old boy with a teenage sister who watched American Bandstand every day after school and had a Tele-Tone 45 rpm portable record player in her bedroom. With a big fat plastic spindle, she […]
A few weeks ago I published a review of an album by a young band that kicked off with the sentence “X is joining a new wave of Southern bands and artists that are re-examining their white Southern identity.” In […]
Bluegrass music spent about four decades doing its best to try to establish a unique genre fully separated from country music. The origin came, as this column has often pointed out, on Dec. 8, 1945, with the addition of Earl […]
Folk singing and songwriting duo the Chapin Sisters – comprised of actual sisters Abigail and Lily Chapin – are readying their first album of new material in five years, Today’s Not Yesterday. It promises to depict the pair coming full circle, […]
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