Big Dave McLean is back and sounding as cranky as ever, and that’s a good thing. McLean’s new release Better the Devil You Know is produced by fellow Canadian and string wizard, Steve Dawson. This album is McLean’s second for […]
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Puxico, the debut album of much-lauded songwriter Natalie Hemby, is a love letter to a man and a place. George Hemby is the man, and Puxico, Missouri is the place. On her first solo album, she spotlights her considerable talent for […]
Not many groups get this far. Fewer make it and still sound as good, or as vital, as they did in the early days. But the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band aren’t crossing the finish line, they are just passing a […]
In the fall of 2015 The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band celebrated their fiftieth anniversary by packing Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and putting on a concert that honored their longevity and stature in the music business. The affair was nothing if […]
If you like solid blues and blues-rock, check out the new album, Live at the Kessler, from Jim Suhler and Monkey Beat, released over the summer. I stumbled across this record and have been playing it in constant rotation. Suhler and […]
Portland’s Silver Lake 66 releases a solid debut country gem, Let go or be dragged. Backed by an ensemble of Portland’s Americana scene, the duo of Maria Francis and Jeff Overbo deliver an album of straight ahead country music, performed with […]
The Sunday night air was alive with anticipation. The promise of autumn’s cool weather and an evening of splendid music signaled that the dog days of summer were a thing of the past. And who better to celebrate with than […]
Tab Benoit hit the Birchmere stage the way great artists leave it. He started the night with the intensity of vision and ferocity of attack most performers leave for the second encore. And he built from there. Singing “Gonna get […]
Graham Nash took to the Birchmere stage with all the grace of an elder statesman whose body of work and history as an activist long ago marked him as a force for social change. Launching his opening set with “Military […]
In the fall of 2014 I started hearing about an artist from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, by way of Mobile. Her name was Lisa Mills. I had not yet heard her music, but the word of mouth was good — very good. […]
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