Cruz Contreras had just written “Hard to Please,” the song that would eventually become the title track for the Black Lillies’ fourth studio album, when he asked his son, Cash, to give it a listen. “I had originally written it […]
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It was by chance that Iris DeMent opened the book of Russian poetry sitting on her piano bench to Anna Akhmatova’s “Like A White Stone.” She’d never heard of the poet before, but a friend had loaned her the anthology, […]
As an actor, Jeff Daniels’ career has often seemed like a contradiction. From his role as intrepid anchor Will McAvoy in HBO’s The Newsroom, for which he won an Emmy, to current supporting turns as Apple CEO John Sculley in […]
Vince Gill was feeling a little lost when he got the call from Dire Straits cofounder Mark Knopfler. After three solo albums, Gill and his label RCA Records, had parted ways. While Tony Brown, who Gill met working in Rodney […]
Amy Black stands in a mostly empty apartment in Boston. She’s on clean-up duty while her husband, Ryan, drives a packed U-Haul with the couple’s Mini Cooper in tow to their new home in Nashville. After nearly three decades in […]
Bug Jennings runs through a list of phrases that have been used to describe his alt-country outfit, The Defibulators. “There was ‘Hee-Haw on mescaline,’ and ‘Carter Family-meets-Ramones,’” the singer-guitarist says by telephone from Brooklyn, N.Y. “Someone called it ‘trucker punk,’ […]
As a folk-rock fan who grew up admiring the greats of the genre, singer and guitarist Rob Nance decided it was time to broaden his own music in the hours spent on the highway between towns. “I wanted to take […]
For the past month, Cassadee Pope has quietly been slipping her new single, “I Am Invincible,” into the set list of her live show. But when she took the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum stage July 25 to perform the self-empowerment […]
Boise is a place caught between two worlds. The city, which rises on a high desert plain in Southwestern Idaho, is both urban and wild. The Boise River snakes its way past monuments of industry, while mountains rise to the […]
Three days after Buddy Guy closed down the Blues Tent with a blistering set on the final day of the New Orleans Jazz Fest, he’s back home in his sweet Chicago. “I just got in last night, but I’m feeling […]
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