When the Country Music Association made the decision that network tv time was too valuable a commodity to devote to the Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees, something had to be done. After all, the men and women being inducted […]
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“The first time I ever heard the name Elvis Presley… was the first time I saw him play live,” began Marshall Chapman, dusky voice pouring out like slow smoked honey, reading from her Good Bye Little Rock & Roller. “They […]
When the Americana Conference has hosted Bonnie Raitt, Richard Thompson, Don Was, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, the Civil Wars and Emmylou Harris as part of the Mercyland show, Chris Stamey, Casey Chambers, the Wallflowers, Billy Joe Shaver, Jim Lauderdale and […]
With her valentine shaped and Tinkerbelle tuft of a ponytail, Sylvie Simmons may not seem like a death-defying truth seeker, but she is. I’m Your Man, her exhaustive bio of noted songpoet/ladies man Leonard Cohen, received the mainframe treatment by […]
You could spend several hundred words recapping who won, who played, who presented. It’s a laundry list of the best of singer/songwriter, root,s and other organic forms of music. Indeed, several hundred words wouldn’t do the night justice. Or you […]
What is a life lived in music worth? Take away the Grammy Awards, the gold and platinum records, the being the first country artist to pull the Michael Jackson hat trick of 5 #1 singles off a single record (the […]
For Jackson Browne, like James Taylor, a summer stop in Cleveland, Ohio is like the swallows returning to Capistrano. Throughout the ‘70s, the socially conscious singer/songwriter’s tales of hope, loss and following Running on Empty, the road became the soundtrack […]
Back bar of Tootsies looks a little like a Hell hole, Not dark enough for the worn in – or worn out, depending on your perspective – room to have the dingy romanticism of authenticity, its mostly a sad little […]
“So here I am on my stool tonight Yeah, I’m practicing for the afterlife, Cause when I’m nothing but a pile of bones I’m gonna come back as a country song.” “I meet a lot of teenagers,” Alan Jackson says. […]
Eighty-eight minutes after taking the stage, Kix Brooks returned, black shirt soaked, hair damp when he took off his hat to put an acoustic guitar over his head. He’d played an exhausting set that recast some of the songs his […]
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