There’s something deep into the core of New York City singer-songwriter Riley Etheridge Jr.’s new release, The Straight and Narrow Way, that carries with it a deeply Stax/Muscle Shoals realized sonic bloodline. It’s this sense of the music from these […]
By day, Ernest Troost is an Emmy award winning composer of film and television music. His best known score is for the camp-horror classic, Tremors. But, by night, his blood is filled with the blues of the Piedmont region of […]
If any Texas born country singer-songwriter could be considered a cosmic cowboy it would have to be Michael Nesmith. After even a brief perusal of his 70’s solo albums it becomes clear if Gram Parsons coined the term “Cosmic American […]
Her voice is smokey, rough, and sweet at the same time. She’s has been described as one part bourbon; two parts honey. Her path to success has been strewn with personal tragedy. It’s been an earthbound trail of loss that […]
“The reason man created stringed instruments: David touched them with a lover’s fingers and they moaned that true love right back at him. Wood and wire and flesh spoke.” —Jerry Jeff Walker Every American artist worth their salt has a […]
If Louisiana native singer-songwriter Rod Melancon’s debut solo album, My Family Name, was a Valentine to Hank Williams and the Outlaw Movement of the 70’s, then his outstanding new album, Parish Lines, released March 4th on Medina River Records, is […]
There is an audacity rides along side artistic growth. It involves taking risks, speeding up the ride and hitting the accelerator to see how fast and how much madness your engine can handle. After his 2010 debut, My Family Name, […]
There is a point, when listening to a music created with a specific vision where looking back connects us to the present and the shows us the road to the future. The Far West, who have just released their sophomore […]
“He passed away, that doesn’t mean he’s gone.” Arlo Guthrie Sometimes it seems life spins us through a series of circles and cycles. Along the way we find the wise ones; heroes we call them. Our cultural heroes sit uncomfortably […]
by Terry Roland There is no one more infectious in their passion and energy for music than Richie Furay. The former co-founder of Buffalo Springfield and Poco, now going into his 70th year, shows no signs of letting up. In fact, […]
