Jason Samuel is a regular attendee at the Americana Music Association Conference in Nashville every year. When I’ve seen him there, I’ve always appreciated his enthusiasm for the music and for radio. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in […]
For my money, nothing encapsulates the Lone Star ethos better than Texas Monthly’s slogan: the national magazine of Texas. The state’s certainly big and bombastic enough to be a sovereign entity, with its own swagger, cuisine, culture, and way of […]
“Sing a Train Song”: this deft and touching tune by one of East Nashville’s finest – or maybe its finest – is easy to hear as a familiar trope; train songs abound in American music for good reason. But in this […]
It’s been eight years since Record Store Day kicked up its heels and sauntered onto the scene — an opportunity (excuse?) to descend on your local record store and spend a sizable budget on actual physical copies of recorded music. […]
Ernie Hendrickson admits he has an ulterior motive for booking his current tour swing through Michigan. “To tell the truth,” the singer-songwriter says by telephone from his home in Chicago, “one of the reasons I booked this tour is because […]
“They say a neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.” – Jerome Lawrence I would add that a […]
Hank Williams was the king of country soul My daddy took me to see him in Lubbock but he didn’t show Now the people got mad and they all went home The first thing we did was put his records […]
This is a collection of Todd Snider’s trunk tunes, but, considering his highly regarded songwriting chops, it’s no surprise that even his odds and ends hold some golden nuggets. There are rough-edged demos of songs he developed further (“Missing You” […]
The title of Todd Snider’s sixth studio record references Bob Dylan’s 1969 classic album, but with an underdog twist — if you live on the east side of Nashville, you’re probably a working-class stiff or a blue-collar artist with your […]
