In Nashville, there are great songwriters and big hitmakers. In the space where those two populations overlap, that’s where you’ll find Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally, and Josh Osborne. And what an absolute pleasure it was to spend a Tin Pan […]
City Winery (in Nashville and elsewhere) is set up and sold as a listening room. And, when the calendar is full of acoustic singer/songwriters and small jazz ensembles, that makes absolute sense. But, sometimes, a more emboldened band or artist […]
Drew Holcomb is an interesting case study. Though he crafts readily accessible melodies, he doesn’t pander lyrically to the lowest common denominator. He’s not up there singing, “Oh, baby baby.” He’s singing about gratitude for a lost love, acceptance of […]
Downtown Franklin, Tenn., provided the perfect setting last Friday night for Gretchen Peters’ album release party/performance. Like the record, the town’s Main Street is charming, pristine, and just a little bit out of the way. And, also like the record, […]
Most singers blessed with robust voices these days are content to fly their melodies as high and wide as possible, forsaking the song for the histrionics and allowing auto-tune to do the rest, with no real craft to be found […]
As the B-52s head toward their 40th anniversary next year, Kate Pierson is keeping herself busy this year with her first-ever solo album, Guitars and Microphones. The timbre of Pierson’s voice is so charmingly iconic that, even when applied to […]
When you’re a singer/songwriter armed with little more than a guitar and your talent, you have to find ways to stand out from the crowd. That’s why the pairing of Robby Hecht and Natalia Zukerman last Friday at the Bluebird […]
This year, the Nashville Ballet’s Valentine’s program finds them teaming up with local singer/songwriter Matthew Perryman Jones for a reprisal of their 2013 collaboration, “… but the flowers have yet to come” as part of Attitude. The three-part performance also […]
Like Mickey Newbury before her, singer/songwriter Lori McKenna writes sad songs. And, like Patty Griffin, she has the sad voice to back it up. In between, though, McKenna is one of the funniest performers this side of Kenny Rogers. After […]
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