Songwriter Jonatha Brooke is a strong performer in every sense of the word. Carrying herself as the dancer she is, in possession of a nimble soprano that can go from a whisper to a roar, she is adept at owning […]
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The until-very-recently Texas-based Tom Russell is a whirling dervish of creative energy, curiosity, cowboy poetry, and virtuosity. It’s hard to do justice to the work of such an accomplished songwriter who has lyrically painted a portrait of the American West […]
“Today my album is one year and one day old,” Kris Delmhorst said early in her show at The Freight & Salvage of her widely acclaimed 2014 release Blood Test. “So it’s no longer my new album. But we’re going […]
A sound recipe for indie musician survival is to share a tour bill and road miles, and cross-pollinate each other’s audiences while you’re at it. Such must have been the thinking that brought together veteran musicians Steve Poltz and Grant […]
One of the great tragedies in American music was the far-too-early passing of Patsy Cline, at age 30 in a 1963 plane crash. Cline not only pioneered country music for women, she brought a whole catalog of great songs to […]
Maria Muldaur has had an epic music career, period. The New York-born, California-based singer has roots in American music as deep as any artist alive today, and her forty (40!) records traverse jazz, folk, cajun, blues, and pop music. Forty […]
Its not exactly a secret that HowellDevine play Mississippi Hill Country, Country and Delta Blues very, very well. The California-based trio — featuring Joshua Howell on guitar, harmonica, and vocals, Pete Devine on washboard and drums, and Joe Kyle Jr. on upright bass — is […]
After more than a quarter century of touring the country, it should come as no surprise that country stalwart Suzy Bogguss can make a far-from-home stage feel like a living room. Accompanied by the excellent Charlie Chadwick on (folding!) bass, […]
Singing earnest, solid rock songs with infectious hooks, The BoDeans have always presented an urgent, heartfelt hopefulness. Founded by Waukesha, Wisconsin, buddies Kurt Neumann and Sam Llanas in the 1980s, they laid out a template for a winning brand of […]
One had the sense of seeing a living legend when Junior Brown brought his ‘guit-steel’ driven rockabilly, honky-tonking, surf-rock bonanza of a show to the Freight & Salvage stage on Tuesday. A consumate and one-of-kind entertainer, the multi-Grammy/Country Music/International Bluegrass-award […]
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