Abigail Washburn grew up a suburban girl obsessed with China and it was that winding, silk road the ultimately led her to the very American world of folk and bluegrass music. How’s that for a road less traveled? It starts […]
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Seldom Scene issues its first Smithsonian Folkways album next week with guests including Emmylou Harris. Mike Auldridge passed away in 2012, but the group includes founding member Ben Eldridge as well as Lou Reid, Dudley Connell, Ronnie Simpkins, and Fred […]
The question came crossing the parking lot, barely out of Hampton Coliseum that January night in 1985. “So, do you have someone for your extra ticket tomorrow night? She had turned it down weeks ago, saying she was sure Bruce […]
Susan Tedeschi says when she and Derek Trucks talked about uniting in a band after a decade of marriage they knew there were risks. Tedeschi was a perennial Grammy nominee, both for rock and blues. Trucks had played with Buddy […]
The list of Bela Fleck’s collaborators is a head-spinning kaleidoscope through modern music. Sam Bush and John Cowan in New Grass Revival, a group that redefined acoustic music. The out-there rhythm section of Roy and Victor Wooten and the polymath […]
Joe Ely remembers the last time he played a songwriters show in Virginia Beach quite well, thank you. He was on stage at the Pavilion in 1991 with John Hiatt, Guy Clark, and Lyle Lovett when Lovett invited an old […]
For Garland Jeffreys, the 13 years between albums before 2011’s “The King of In Between” were a time to focus on raising his daughter. Savannah is 17 now, a songwriter with a considerable following, so Jeffreys again has directed his considerable […]
For Miss Tess and her band, the Talkbacks, it seems the best name was one that didn’t mean much of anything too concrete. The Brooklyn-based singer and her band make swinging, jumpin’ modern vintage music that nods to the traditions […]
Browse through Alejandro Escovedo’s considerable body of work, notably his group efforts with the pioneering bands Rank and File and The True Believers as well as his solo discs beginning in the early 1990s, and you’ll find only a handful […]
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