Spooner Oldham is fixing his lawnmower when I reach him on a Saturday afternoon. Anyone familiar with his monumental body of work might find it oddly funny to hear this Rock and Roll Hall Of Famer and key member of […]
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The sound of a cold can of beer cracking open is heard on the other end of the line. It’s afternoon but Jay Rutherford and Aaron “Mort” Mortenson have just woken up after a late night playing with their band […]
Is there such a thing as “Alaskan music”? If you’re like me you might think of a cliché image of the flannel-clad lumberjack, corn cob pipe dangling from his bearded face, sitting on the porch of a log cabin noodling […]
Ever since the 2012 film Searching For Sugar Man placed a spotlight on the strange life and career of the elusive folk singer Rodriguez, there seems to be renewed attention from music lovers when it comes to discovering musicians who may have […]
Waylon Jennings passed away over a decade ago, yet his presence seems to be felt more than ever these days as a younger generation of artists embrace his legacy. Maybe this is in rebellion against the debauched landscape of pop […]
Power pop is not a musical style that comes to mind when talking about the Drive-By Truckers. But fans of the band may not know that it happens to be a passion for Jay Gonzalez. His work as keyboardist and […]
When you can lay claim to being the longest running music television show in America, it seems only fitting that you create a hall of fame to honor those that have been apart of it. Over the course of 41 […]
What is the real deal? In a world where your presence on social media means everything, it can be hard to decipher what bands are actually authentic and not just “killing it.” People tend to post before they really let anything sink in. […]
“With the help of you people we stuck it straight up Nashville’s ass!” Considering he was in the middle of the first of two very sold out shows at Stubb’s, it was hard to disagree with Sturgill Simpson’s cheerful proclamation […]
Everyone has their own story about how they discovered the music of Doug Sahm. Maybe you first heard of him through tributes or covers of his music from alt-country acts like Uncle Tupelo, the Bottle Rockets, and the Gourds, to […]
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