Andy Hall of The Infamous Stringdusters was pondering just how many different songs the band has been playing in its live show. His sound engineer recently surprised him with the answer. “He’s become sort of our archivist,” Hall says by […]
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Elana James was a broke intern at Harper’s magazine in New York City when she placed the ad in the Village Voice music section, hoping to join a band. “I missed playing Western music so I put this ad in that wrongly stated that […]
Jack Williams has always been a bit of a musical sponge. The national touring folk musician began on his mother’s ukulele. He played jazz trumpet, studied classical guitar, and even took up the lute in a Renaissance band. From 1958 […]
Travis McNamara and Will Koster were in the crowd when Tim O’Brien began singing “Megna’s” at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. About halfway through the tune about a neighborhood grocer who sells melons and strawberries, Koster turned to McNamara declaring he […]
Mark Dvorak acknowledges his plans are a bit ambitious as he rattles off a laundry list of projects on tap over the next year and a half. “The first one is It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie, which is […]
Dig into the résumé of folk singer-songwriter Bill Staines and there’s one item that sticks out. It’s not the fact that he’s now in his 50th year as a professional musician. It’s not that his catalog of songs has been […]
Aaron Jonah Lewis does write the occasional song, such as “Bell & Anchor Rag” and “Route 77,” both of which appear on The Corn Potato String Band’s debut album, Volume 1, released last year. Songwriting, however, has never really been […]
Ernie Hendrickson admits he has an ulterior motive for booking his current tour swing through Michigan. “To tell the truth,” the singer-songwriter says by telephone from his home in Chicago, “one of the reasons I booked this tour is because […]
It’s not always easy for independent touring musicians to find an affordable place to stay. When a friend’s couch or a fan’s guest room isn’t an option, it’s either the van or a cheap motel. So, when Daniel J. Daniel of […]
Lindsay Lou and Joshua Rilko, the husband-and-wife core of Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys, were backpacking Central America’s so-called Gringo Highway when they met a man who had the secret to love. “He told Josh there were three steps to […]
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