Country music is riddled with opposing forces. Critics, labels, and everyone around them want to push its boundaries with one hand and play by the rules with the other, but where does that leave the well-meaning artist? Sometimes it seems […]
More often than not, it’s easy enough to get a sense of an artist through their songs, and certainly their live performances. Nowhere is that more true than with the Weepies — the husband/wife folk-pop duo of Steve Tannen and […]
Even as the internet pulls citizens of the world closer together, issues push us further apart. At the heart of both matters are the ideas of connectedness and commonality. Whether a community is online or on the ground, the age-old […]
Shawn Colvin with Emmylou Harris and Buddy Miller There are some artists who should lean their catalog toward cover songs rather than original compositions. Shawn Colvin is not, however, one of them. As wonderful as she is as an interpreter […]
With a stellar backing band, Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell took the stage for the first of their sold out two-night stand at Nashville’s City Winery last night. There’s a deep familiarity shared by the two legendary artists who have […]
In case you don’t know the story of Alabama Shakes’ meteoric rise to glory, it all started when Brittany Howard approached Zac Cockrell in an East Limestone High School psychology class about jamming together. She played guitar and sang; he […]
When an audience offers up a standing ovation just for an artist walking onstage, the night is surely going to be a good one, right? Well… yes and no. Stopping in Nashville on her first-ever solo tour and last-ever world […]
It’s a rare and beautiful thing to see artists support each other so readily and joyfully as the members of Ten Out of Tenn do. The Nashville artists’ collective founded by singer/songwriter Trent Dabbs and his wife, marketing maven Kristen, […]
With a “1-2-3-4” click in from drummer Debbi Peterson, the Bangles rocked the pants off City Winery last night in their first Nashville appearance since 1988, and the first of this two-show stand. The group recently released their first EP […]
Reaching all the way back to 1997 to start her show with “Never Again, Again,” Lee Ann Womack set the evening’s tone with a cut that’s about as decidedly country as country gets… which is not to say that she […]
