Backed by her wildly talented band, the Twat Biscuits, Nashville drag icon Marlene Twitty-Fargo sang her rump off at City Winery in what was a farewell celebration for the band’s fiddle player/music director, Cousin Vaseline. Digging deep into her catalog […]
As has been proven time and again over the past few years by both critics and charts, Jason Isbell’s star is on the rise. In October, he sold out four nights at Ryman Auditorium, so to catch one of his two […]
“Everyone loves a good ghost story,” producer Neilson Hubbard says, explaining the rhymes and reasons behind his latest project, The Orphan Brigade: Soundtrack to a Ghost Story. “People seem fascinated. People want to know more about it. I think that […]
In a town so over-run with great singer/songwriters, it’s sometimes easy to forget that Nashville’s not the only place they come from. Massachusetts, California, New York, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Oregon all do their part, too. Heck, even […]
Most artists who play at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium comment about how historic the room is and what an honor it is to step on that stage. Maybe all of them mean it, but probably none of them to the extent […]
**Editor’s note: This past spring, Kelly McCartney sat down with Patterson Hood to talk about his buddy and former bandmate Jason Isbell. She wanted to dig into Isbell’s time in the Drive-By Truckers, for a long feature that appears in the 2015 […]
Folk-pop maven Jonatha Brooke hasn’t toured a whole lot in recent years and so was met with easy, eager applause from a roomful of Nashville fans last night at City Winery. Brooke has long been one of the most literate […]
From the first notes out of her mouth, Ruby Amanfu makes it perfectly clear why everyone from Jack White to Weezer wants to sing with her. Quite simply, she’s one of the most elegant singers and souls you’ll ever encounter. […]
Amanda Shires has an interesting way with both language and music. It’s there in her conversation, and it’s there in her songs. The way she chooses and collects words together in both is thoroughly endearing, and the way she winds […]
She “…was as charming as a dream, and as melancholy as a dove left solitary in its nest by the death of its mate.” Honoré de Balzac wrote those words in Despair in Love, and they sprung to mind while […]
