Starting a new year often involves reflecting on the roads we’ve traveled and casting glances on the ups and downs of our journeys. On their first full-length album ever, Memory Bank, Drew & Ellie Holcomb collaborate on 13 new […]
Starting a new year often involves reflecting on the roads we’ve traveled and casting glances on the ups and downs of our journeys. On their first full-length album ever, Memory Bank, Drew & Ellie Holcomb collaborate on 13 new […]
Former president Jimmy Carter died at age 100 on December 30, 2024. Carter will be remembered as a humanitarian and human rights activist, but he’ll also be remembered as the “rock and roll president.” His close relationship with Greg Allman […]
In times of darkness and despair, books offer hope and glimpses into world far away from our own. The best books entertain us, inform us, shape us, and transform us. Music books often carry us back to times in our […]
“Well, it’s one for the money, two for the show/three to get ready, now go, cat, go.” That’s just what Australian music writer Jeff Apter (Don’t Dream It’s Over), does in his affectionate, straight-ahead biography Carl Perkins: The King […]
Pure Prairie League came Bustin’ Out in 1970 with hit love song “Amie,” and riding the country rock highway with songs like “Early Morning Riser,” “Two Lane Highway,” “Kentucky Moonshine,” and “I’ll Change Your Flat Tire, Merle.” Over the […]
Singer-songwriter Laura Nyro, beloved for her introspective lyrics and rich vocals, left us far too early when she died at 49, following a struggle with ovarian cancer. Now, a 19-CD limited edition boxed set, Hear My Song, honors Nyro’s […]
Texas historian Joe Nick Patoski sums up the experience of attending one of Willie Nelson’s annual picnics as “living inside a Willie Nelson song every Fourth of July.” As Patoski writes in his foreword to journalist Dave Dalton Thomas’ Picnic: […]
In 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival celebrated the lives and music of a group of fictional street singers Willy and the Poor Boys in their hit song “Down on the Corner.” As the four boys gather on the corner near […]
Despite the title of Yonder Mountain String Band’s new album, Nowhere Next, they’re always headed somewhere, blazing new sonic trails and revisiting some familiar musical territory. For the album’s 11 songs (it’s their 11th album, as well), the band […]
On his latest album, Last Leaf on the Tree, country music legend Willie Nelson reflects on mortality and love as he interprets songs by Tom Waits, Neil Young, Sunny War, Keith Richards, and Beck, among others. Produced by his […]