Having just returned from Nashville and the ever-growing Americana Music Association Conference and Festival, I have to say the highlight for me is the conversations with other music industry types who share a deep love and vast knowledge of great music. Eric […]
Bob Dylan has been a part of the American musical consciousness since the early 1960s. In other words, a man now three-quarters of a century old has fascinated, irritated, entertained, intrigued, and inspired Americans for more than half a century. […]
Music takes us places we never expected — or even wanted — to go. It can take us to the heights of ecstasy or the depths of despair. It appeals to us and sometimes repels us, too. Our earliest memories, even pre-memories, […]
I’ve known Brad Hunt for many years and he always seems happy and usually has an amusing story to share. I always remember and love that he accepted an Americana Music Award for Sonny Landreth, walking to the podium in […]
Bluegrass songs often seem to lie in a realm of nostalgic haze, the memories of days gone by. Somehow we yearn for a day somewhere in the past where things were better, life was simpler, people treated each other with respect […]
I went to a small Quaker boarding school in suburban Chester County, Pennsylvania, during the late 1950s. A small group of guys, mostly two years ahead of me, regularly sneaked down to Sunset Park in the southern part of the […]
Many people think of bluegrass music and hillbilly music in the same breath. Old-time, a description often applied to string band music as it developed in the first third of the 20th century in the mountains, hills, and hollers of […]
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