Mention the word “free” in this economy, and there’s a good chance that folks will click on my post today to find out what we’re giving away. Or so Melody Walker is hoping. Because she has a new album out and […]
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Just a quick one this morning to acknowledge that yesterday would have been Johnny Cash’s 80th birthday, and to actually sort of ask a question or spark a discussion. Through the miracle of my iPod shuffle goddess yesterday morning, his […]
I made it through the first seventeen minutes of the Grammy Awards before I went upstairs to where the kids hang out and watched a couple episodes of The Wire, Season Five on DVD. My wife was doing work in […]
Even if Linda Chorney doesn’t take home an award for Americana artist of the year or whatever she’s been nominated for and despite the three and a half hours of televised multi-national major music corporation and record label masturbatory love fest, […]
Getting ready to run out this morning; too much on my plate. But as I scanned the news, it caught my eye that Don Cornelius, the heart and host of the American television program Soul Train passed on early this morning […]
If I haven’t been been a huge Pines fan for a few years, if I didn’t think Red House Records is one of the greatest indie record labels in business today, if their incredible banjo player Michael Rossetto wasn’t someone […]
You might think in this day and age of fast-flying megabytes and high speed connective connections you’d pretty much find out information about someone special with the whiz of a search engine and a series of clicks. No. Not always […]
Lucas Diltweiler from Pine Bluff , AK. would be the first to tell you how shocked he was a couple of months ago when he received a letter from NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences) advising him that he had been nominated for “best hummed […]
Go to a show or festival these days that feature folk or Americana music and it seems that you can always find a group of people off in the corner who are enjoying a lively discussion about one of the […]
Twenty-two years ago this month the body of guitarist Jackson Whitman was found in a dark alley by a very drunk man who literally stumbled and fell on top of him. The man’s last name (if I remember to spell […]
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