The phrase “Appalachian roots music” may call to mind a robust fiddle sound and danceable mountain rhythms, but there’s more to this region’s musical tradition than just that. Asheville-based River Whyless taps into other areas with their latest, and you […]
Despite a storied career as one of Nashville’s most well-travelled troubadours, Tim Easton’s never been content to play any role expected of him. Instead, he’s cast his gaze on songs that offer compact vignettes, flush with rich characters and telling […]
Is there such a thing as “Alaskan music”? If you’re like me you might think of a cliché image of the flannel-clad lumberjack, corn cob pipe dangling from his bearded face, sitting on the porch of a log cabin noodling […]
The lobby in Kansas City’s Westin Hotel is full of folks: folks in jeans and glasses, folks in plaid and boots, folks on computers and cell phones, and folks lugging around various musical instruments. There are the dredlocked folks by […]
As the year begins to round third and head to a close, I have been preaching the Americana gospel about new record releases from singer-songwriters that hail from all parts of the country. Stationed here on the frontier of Northeast […]
Tim Easton at Fond Object – East Nashville during the 2014 AMA Festival
Tim Easton plays and sings like an old man. For the record, that’s meant as praise, not a taunt. He often sounds as if he’s channeling any number of discovered-late bluesmen, as well as Doc Watson and everybody’s favorite great-uncle […]
From the subway vocal echo to the scrappy acoustic settings, Tim Easton’s fourth album draws a back-to-busking baseline, as informal as his first album Special 20, and as lyrically blunt as anything he’s ventured. Easton recorded episodically and itinerantly, in […]
