Bill Morrissey passed away yesterday. I came across his music about a decade ago and it grabbed me. His songs make you nod in agreement, chuckle in recognition, and cry in empathy. He played my house concert series and was […]
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It was the nightmare I’d feared for over a decade of hosting 60 house concerts: a rogue storm, threatening almost from the time Tara Nevins and Carol Elizabeth Jones took the stage, finally unleashed a torrent about an hour into […]
“I’m on the 90-year-plan,” Garland Jeffreys cracks. When you’re helping to raise a 15-year-old daughter and your first album in 13 years is about to hit the market, there’s a reason to map out an ambitious future. Jeffreys […]
Tara Nevins has been one of the main songwriters and vocalists in the roots band, Donna the Buffalo, for more than two decades, building a collection of fine roots albums and a widespread fan base known as The Herd. […]
My piece on key moments in Dylan’s career is up on Smithsonian to celebrate his 70th. Though I’ve seen him many times, he remains fascinating, maybe even more so the more I learn about him. The Top 10 Moments […]
A song from his album, “Inclusions,” due in May, has been posted to his site. This tune, at least, is yet another new direction from an artist I’ve come to appreciate more and more over the past year. […]
The Low Anthem “Smart Flesh” (Nonesuch) The Low Anthem’s first major label effort is a haunting masterpiece, a new generation’s “Music From the Big Pink.” Like the mystical alchemy The Band conjured in a West Saugerties, New York, house, […]
Greg Trooper “Upside-Down Town” (52 Shakes Records) When the Hammond B-3 kicks in to start this album, trailed by Trooper’s resonant, soulful, alt-country vibrato, it’s clear one of America’s best (and underappreciated) songwriters is taking us along for another […]
Eric Brace, front man for Last Train Home, and Peter Cooper, a Nashville songwriter and journalist, released “Master Sessions” last month, one of 2010’s delights, an alluring album featuring a couple of their boyhood heroes – pedal steel guitarist Lloyd […]
Here are the discs that were most memorable for me in 2010. Kevin Welch “A Patch of Blue Sky” (Music Road) That Kevin Welch isn’t a household name is a crime for fans of finely wrought, soul-searching, and soul-touching songs. […]
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