EDITOR’S NOTE: As 2018 comes to a close, we’re looking back at some releases from the year that we didn’t get a chance to write up when they were released. Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite’s No Mercy In This Land was released in […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: As 2018 comes to a close, we’re looking back at some releases from the year that we didn’t get a chance to write up when they were released. Dan Baird and Homemade Sin’s Screamer was released in September. Halfway […]
Stephen Kellogg is a nice, hardworking guy. He’s played over 1,500 shows over the last decade. Named Armed Forces Entertainer of the Year, he’s been invited to speak to students at Columbine High School about social justice. He’s even given […]
We roots music fans are a curious lot. We’re often torn between wanting our artists to be heard by everyone and wanting to keep them all to ourselves. In a perfect world, the ultimate goal, of course, is for the […]
The passing of Tom Petty on Oct. 2, 2017 hit hard. Occurring just days after the completion of the Heartbreakers’ 40th-anniversary tour at the Hollywood Bowl didn’t make the news any easier. The music world has lost several talented artists […]
When writer Robert Palmer’s film Deep Blues (building upon his classic book of the same name) was released in 1991, it revealed the blues of the North Mississippi hill country to the world. It’s the first time most audiences outside […]
THE CICADAS WERE OUT in full force, buzzing in celebration as the August summer heat had mercifully subsided, at least for a few days. I ordered coffee (black) and took a seat at a tiny round table outside Caffé Driade, […]
When pulling campaigns for Crowdfunding Radar, I typically visit three sites: PledgeMusic, Kickstarter, and IndieGoGo. Being the “big three” crowdfunding sites, they host the vast majority of campaigns that run. But in the past few years, a fourth platform has […]
Rodney Crowell closed 2017’s magnificent Close Ties with “Nashville 1972,” a warts-and-all recounting of his first year in Music City surrounded by the likes of Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. Those giants are no longer on this plane, but […]
As someone who’s been at the forefront of at least two musical uprisings – the electric blues/rock boom of the early ‘60s with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and as a solo artist during southern rock’s heyday in the ‘70s […]
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