One never knows what stirs the passions that drive us to write. For Christy McWilson, it may be those hours lying awake and wondering about the weight of the world. For Lonesome Bob, it may be the way that weight […]
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“Do you still have your dreams?” Mickey Newbury drops this question about halfway through his new album’s title track, one of two songs on the disc that clock in on the long side of ten minutes. Newbury has sketched plenty […]
More than a decade, now, since an old friend at Waterloo Records started raving about a new album they’d just gotten at the store. Roscoe was probably the world’s biggest Replacements fan (that was his bootleg cassette they swiped and […]
Travel back through time, if you will, to an early ’90s November night in Athens, Georgia. Half a dozen songwriters gathered around a living room, trading songs way into the wee hours of the morning. Among them, two characters with […]
The most lasting impression of Jon Dee Graham is his laugh. His is not a lighthearted chuckle, but a full-bellied bellow, a roar of approval and amusement unleashed with an infectious enthusiasm that leaves no doubt about the way he […]
Toni Price took the stage at the Continental Club on November 6, as she does every Tuesday night for happy hour — but the chair at stage right was empty. In its place rested a bushel of flowers, a scattering […]
Sebastopol: “A small semi-urban community located on the western edge of the Santa Rosa plain in Northern California. It is 50 miles north of San Francisco, and about 15 miles from the Russian River. The city, incorporated in 1902, currently […]
Pop tunesmith Freedy Johnston breaks little new ground on his sixth studio album, which comes across as an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” kind of record. Most everything here would fit comfortably among the highlights of Johnston’s 1990s […]
I must confess to generally having little use for instrumental music; perhaps those of us who write for a living have an overly developed dependence on words. So it came as a bit of a surprise when I found myself […]
The more I write, the less I really know what happens. You get an idea for a song. Well, where does that come from? I don’t know. You just hear a phrase or a little something that just catches you; […]
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