This weekend expatriate California punk forefather and current Scandinavian resident Gary Heffern ( of The Penetrators) released a video for an epic new tune from his upcoming album Gary Heffern & Beautiful People, “Hand of the Devil.” It’s a nine-minute […]
News this week of the passing of Jack Hardy elicited many tales of how he affected lives of both listeners and of fellow performers, an inspiration to many but truly known by only a few. My familiarity with Hardy comes […]
In addition to this blog, which I post on far too infrequently, I have a personal one that also covers music, albeit of a much wider variety than what one encounters in the ND universe. I also post too infrequently […]
Take the link below for a wonderful reminiscence of Larry Jon Wilson, who passed away Monday afternoon, June 21st…It’ll explain who the cute kid is in this picture with Wilson, too: Larry Jon Wilson, RIP (Guest Post on Music That […]
I’ll confess–I listened to mainstream country radio in the 80’s (the pre-Garth Brooks era), and one of my favorite songs was Ronnie Milsap’s “Smoky Mountain Rain.” The first song other than Sunday school tunes or church hymns that I can […]
“Sometimes you throw a kegger and a bunch of people show up, and you have a good time; sometimes you put out some wine and cheese for a small group of friends, and you still have a good time–This is […]
There are ambitious bands out there, that make sprawling, ambitious albums, and then there are bands like The Restoration, who go above and beyond simple ambition into something approximating obsession. The South Carolina band’s debut album Constance is an unflinching […]
I’ve talked up the intriguing talent of Zach Seibert here before, but with a few new things on the horizon I thought I’d reiterate those comments…His latest project is a gospel duo album with Todd Mathis of American Gun, which […]
Photo credit: Robert T. Reid “She’s country as hell, when she cries,” sings Lindsay Holler on the title track to her latest disc, the Helltembre EP, and that line could just as easily describe Holler herself as it does the […]
By any stretch, the music of South Carolina’s Haley Dreis is pop music, just the kind that hasn’t yet found a popular audience yet. A classical music student at the University of South Carolina who put out an excellent self-released […]
