Julie Christensen bowed deeply to the standing-room-only crowd at The Family Wash, a venerable East Nashville music venue, as her band, Stone Cupid, kicked into a full-bore jam. She blew a two-handed kiss to the audience, exited stage left, and […]
Marty Stuart knows who EmiSunshine is. So do those who have clicked the YouTube video of her singing “Folsom Prison Blues,” last March in Knoxville’s Market Square 1,681,526 times and counting. But, in the greater world of country music, EmiSunshine, […]
Anne McCue’s sixth studio album, Blue Sky Thinkin’, traverses the great cosmic continuum into the era of mid-20th century jazz and swing, bringing with it enough of the singer’s East Nashville songwriting swagger and Australian independence to make the eclectic 12-song […]
The first two albums by alt-country duo The Smoking Flowers helped give shape to the continually evolving East Nashville sound. And, when their third album comes out in 2015, husband-and-wife musicians Scott and Kim Collins will celebrate it, in part, […]
I want to be Sergio Webb. I want roll up my world like a sleeping bag for a night, and step into the life of one of Nashville’s great guitar-toting sidemen. I want to be Sergio Webb. I want to […]
Had singer-songwriter Caroline Peyton moved to Nashville in the early 1970s rather than Indiana, more people might know her name – her talent certainly warrants it. Instead, the call of a free-spirited commune drew her to Indiana where, even without the […]
The late Townes Van Zandt was the best songwriter in the whole wide world, Steve Earle said in an oft-cited quote, “and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.” Seventeen years after Van […]
