To say that Lawrence Peters plays country music may be a bit misleading. After all, he turned off country radio in 1979 when, he says, “it became unbearable to listen to.” He hasn’t returned since. So calling Peters a country […]
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Nora Jane Struthers takes the stage at The Livery, a former horse stable brought back to life as a rustic brewery in the downtown Arts District of Benton Harbor, Michigan. It’s late August and the heat from the crowd lingers […]
The Adam Ezra Group has built its reputation on self-described “sweaty, passionate,” and enduring live performances. In fact, the Boston area ensemble’s shows have become so notable that its fervent Northeast following has swapped more than 100 live bootleg recordings, […]
Wild Ponies was performing a cover of the Patti Smith version of “Gloria” at a benefit show when guitarist and vocalist Doug Williams was struck by the line “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine.” “It just made me […]
Henhouse Prowlers, the Chicago-based bluegrass outfit, had played Africa before. In 2013, the band was chosen to do a month-long tour of the African countries Congo, Liberia, Mauritania and Niger as part of a State Department-funded program called American Music […]
Mathew Thornton is a man of many talents. Five years ago Thornton, his wife Kathy, and their daughter Molly opened the Union Coffee House & Café in Buchanan, MI, where he runs the weekly Sunday Music Session in the old […]
Paul LaRoche grew up as part of a white middle-class family in the small farming community of Worthington, Minn. While he knew he was adopted at birth, it wasn’t until after the death of his adoptive parents that he discovered […]
Joni Bishop is a renaissance woman. While she may be best known as a singer-songwriter in the American folk music scene, the Nashville, TN-based Bishop also has been lauded for her work as a visual artist, painting portraits of the […]
Kathy Mattea checks her shoe count as she finishes packing for a holiday-themed tour. “You have to make sure you have enough shoes and makeup,” she says by telephone from her home in Nashville, “and those are the things I […]
To say Suzanne Vega was skeptical that her song “Luka” could be a hit would be completely understating it. “It was my manager at the time, Ron Fierstein, who heard in it a possible hit,” Vega says by telephone before […]
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