CR Humphrey, who is better known under his nom de musicien Old Gray Mule, is a hell of a good guy. It’s clear when you see him play live, when you hear the soulful licks he lays down on tape, […]
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Often when you hear a band who sits at the, some would say unlikely, crossroads of country and punk, it seems the punk tag is only given a passing nod, more evident in band members’ tattoos than in the music. […]
It was a part of the deal for me, sometimes consumed before the music was even played. Vinyl had them. CDs had them. Even fricking cassettes had them. And in the pre-internet age when all of the information I sought […]
Nate Burrell has once again generously allowed us to feature his great photography on Now This Sound Is Brave. This Record Store Day found JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound in St. Louis where they made an in-store appearance at […]
“You’re a little bi-polar,” he tells her, “and you get on my ass about drinking my liquor and smoking too much grass.” She parries. “You know, you’re no Johnny Cash.” “Woman, what’d you say?” “I said, you ain’t the Man […]
Musically, one of my favorite things about 2011 was getting into Ohio’s own beautiful chamber folk rock group, the Ridges. Their evocative music still makes me happy when I hear it, and I’m even happier that this talented crew was […]
Written by Jennifer for Now This Sound Is Brave. When I came to the end of this book, I closed the back cover slowly, and rested my fingertips on it, pulling myself back to the present while the the […]
One of these days, I will master the art of showing up to the Grog Shop at Just The Right Time – not too early, not too late. This past Friday was not that day. I missed all of Heelsplitter […]
“Like a dead dog on the highway…” sang an unmistakeably German voice. It was the kind of lisping German accent that my American ears associate with camp villains in bad movies. Then in came the banjo. What? “Like a […]
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