As a very small girl, Kimmie Rhodes was taught to sing by her dad, which sounds like a normal, sweet interaction between a father and a daughter doesn’t it? For Kimmie, it was different. Her father had been orphaned during […]
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Back in the summer of 1996, I had the good fortune of booking Townes Van Zandt for one of his last performances in the United States. Earlier in the year, Ed Pearl, the founder of the Ash Grove, the legendary […]
First Album In Seven Years By Legendary Singer-Songwriter of “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues,” Whose Songs Have Been Covered by Elvis Presley and Jackson Browne I could begin this review by citing all the hits this man has written […]
And lay me down easy where the cool rivers run/ With only my mountains ‘tween me and the sun — Townes Van Zandt, “My Proud Mountains” A Westerly Cultural Travel Journal I recently drove back out to Colorado, which is not […]
A couple months before high school ended, senior year, I bought a ticket to see R.E.M. in Tampa, with Radiohead opening. “Creep” had only just hit and Radiohead was still somewhat obscure, but there was something about the languid melancholy in Thom […]
When you can lay claim to being the longest running music television show in America, it seems only fitting that you create a hall of fame to honor those that have been apart of it. Over the course of 41 […]
In my last column, I mentioned that the Kerrville Folk Festival is the main reason that I expatriated from Portland, OR and have found myself living in a 1972 ranch house in South Austin with a husband, two kids, and […]
What really got me into touring full time was my first trip to the Kerrville Folk Festival in 2005. Growing up in Portland, OR, I always figured there wasn’t much for me down in Texas, but an 18-day camping festival […]
Days, up and down they come Like rain on a conga drum Forget most, remember some But don’t turn none away Everything is not enough Nothing is too much to bear Where you been is good and gone All you […]
The late Townes Van Zandt was the best songwriter in the whole wide world, Steve Earle said in an oft-cited quote, “and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.” Seventeen years after Van […]
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