Welcome to a brand new No Depression column looking at Americana radio and the people behind the microphones who pick the music we hear. I’ve been in and around radio for many years and have met a lot of DJs […]
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Travis McNamara and Will Koster were in the crowd when Tim O’Brien began singing “Megna’s” at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. About halfway through the tune about a neighborhood grocer who sells melons and strawberries, Koster turned to McNamara declaring he […]
Steve Earle, Tim O’Brien and Peter Rowan performing at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA.
Chameleon finds former Hot Rize hotshot Tim O’Brien puttering around co-producer Gary Paczosa’s garage with a “hillbilly apparatus” that includes guitar, mandolin and bouzouki. O’Brien plays the hell out of them, swinging minor-key blues on “Where’s Love Come From” and […]
Always prolific, Tim O’Brien is releasing two separate albums at the same time on September 13. The roster for Cornbread Nation and Fiddler’s Green boasts many of O’Brien’s frequent pickin’ partners, A-list players all — Jerry Douglas, Kenny Vaughan, Dan […]
Tim O’Brien’s recordings are always musical journeys. Traveler — the first O’Brien album to put a tight focus on his fine songwriting since 1997’s When No One’s Around — focuses on movement and exploration, and what may or may not […]
Most great albums play like great novels — tightly woven pieces that come off as a whole by the time you are finished with them. Listening to Tim O’Brien’s newest endeavor, Two Journeys, is much like reading a wonderful epic. […]
You’d have to be a dog-kicking drunk to dislike Tim O’Brien, and while I used to trip over the late Chow when he’d sprawl into the wrong corner of darkness, it was never intentional. O’Brien’s credentials, stumbling quickly to the […]
Given that Bob Dylan’s catalog has pretty much been interpreted to death by all manner of song stylists by now, an album of all-Dylan covers would seem a rather risky proposition, but Tim O’Brien proves more than up to the […]
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