It makes me really happy to see that Newport is filling their bluegrass quota…and with young and exciting acts to boot. The Goodbye Girls are a fairly new act to the world playing music that draws its roots from years […]
It makes me really happy to see that Newport is filling their bluegrass quota…and with young and exciting acts to boot. The Goodbye Girls are a fairly new act to the world playing music that draws its roots from years […]
I was so excited when the WILDWOOD curated stage announcement rolled out for Newport Folk this summer. So many folks I already love will grace the Museum Stage for this set and a couple names I had been hearing fantastic things about but had […]
Glenn Yoder is the king of catchy. He somehow manages this capacity in his songwriting and riff building that just slays me every single time. Its quite the feat, truly. So…damn…catchy. Right from the first note of ’1171′, the guitars […]
So often a song crafted with extreme care and skill is lost because of the way that it is delivered. Such is not the case with John Moreland‘s songs. I can feel the hurt as his gruff and rasped voice […]
This week’s WILDWOOD curated museum stage announcement at the Newport Folk Festival had me pretty excited. Some old friends in the way of Joe Fletcher, Ian Fitzgerald, and Sammy Brue alongside some folks I have heard so many great things […]
This week’s WILDWOOD curated museum stage announcement at the Newport Folk Festival had me pretty excited. Some old friends in the way of Joe Fletcher, Ian Fitzgerald, and Sammy Brue alongside some folks I have heard so many great things […]
There are two ends of the music listener/fan spectrum: those that go to shows to hear and experience music and those that want others to hear that they were at the show/experience the vast majority of the show through their […]
Dietrich Strause is the epitome of a great songwriter, at least when I think of great songwriter’s. Poetic, pleasing, and pretty in a way. His voice, with tinges of Josh Ritter and well, I don’t even know who else, but […]
Self deprecation is the key to amazing songwriting. Sure, there are good songs about trains or being mad at a girl, but when a writer can pull their own ego away from the process enough to really lay it into […]