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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Half an hour northwest of San Antonio sits a spacious music and drinking hall called John T. Floore’s Country Store. Elvis Presley’s played there, as have Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, George Jones, Merle Haggard, and a multitude of Americana legends […]
This week we talk to Mary Tilson, who hosts a popular and long-running show on Berkeley, California’s powerful and ultra-liberal KPFA, which was the first listener-supported radio station in the United States. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio? What […]
When considering the handful of radio stations across the country that play various kinds of roots music, WDVX in Knoxville aways comes up near the top of the list. So this week I talked to their music director, Nelson Gullett. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start […]
I’m not the biggest fan of Ray Wylie Hubbard’s music. I mean, I’m a fan, just not the biggest. Therefore, when I tell you that his economical, cleverly structured memoir, A Life…Well, Lived (Bordello Records, 174 pages, with Thom Jurek […]
“It’s better than Mr. Tambourine man, right?” Hollis Brown guitarist and co-founder Mike Montali quips about the name of his five-piece, New York-based band that is starting to get an international buzz. Keyboardist Adam Bock, though, gets to the heart […]
Some came from New York, some from Las Vegas. Others traveled from rural America, where family farmers struggle most. No matter where they followed the white line from, all came to Farm Aid 30 for the same two reasons: the music and the […]
Raised on Canada’s Eastern shores by music-loving parents, David Myles has known no bounds when it comes to his obsessive fascination with various musical genres. Myles has numerous albums to his credit in his homeland, and is a recipient of […]
I doubt that anyone could have missed the news this week that, 40 years ago, Bruce Springsteen released his Born to Run album. Somebody somewhere was working hard behind the scenes, getting the word out. Stories popped up all over major television networks […]
Family, friends and filmmakers recently gathered at the Cinefamily Theatre on Fairfax in Los Angeles for Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove — the long-anticipated documentary about the under-appreciated Doug Sahm, produced by Joe Nick Patoski, author of books […]
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