Listening to Tracy Nelson sing is like being inside a pipe organ. Her magnificent instrument makes your whole body vibrate. It’s churchy as all get out, but there’s plenty of sinner loose in there as well. Whether looking out of […]
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When Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival began in 2001, at the urging of fellow West Virginia native Hazel Dickens, it was called Strictly Bluegrass. But, in 2004, in order to reflect the wider changes in roots music, the word “Hardly” was added. […]
Tracy Nelson’s Mother Earth was one of the first San Francisco bands to embrace country music, after relocating to Nashville in 1969 (before moving to Nashville was cool) and releasing Mother Earth Presents Tracy Nelson Country. Drop the first three […]
Recorded at the West Tennessee Detention Center in December, Live From Cell Block D follows in the tradition of prison recordings by Johnny Cash, B.B. King and others. But Tracy Nelson went one step further, performing separate shows for male […]
On her 20th album since 1965, Tracy Nelson returns to the formula that made her 1993 release In The Here And Now an artistic success. She mixes up blues, rhythm & blues and gospel-harmony ballads, most of them addressing past, […]
Godmother of Americana? Perhaps the music of Tracy Nelson fits no more comfortably within the categorical confines of such terms than it did when she began recording it more than a quarter-century ago. Even so, these reissues suggest that this […]
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