“Well,” Kari Arnett thought to herself, “what do I know? I’m only a woman.” It started as a feeling when Arnett would try and offer songwriting suggestions to her male band counterparts and would get shut down. Maybe my opinion […]
Steve Wosahla's interviews and reviews have appeared in Song Hits, Rock, Good Times, Circus, the Messenger-Press, New Haven Register and the New York Times. He is a regular contributor to For The Country Record and a member of the Americana Music Association. He lives in Bristow, VA. You can follow him on Twitter: @swosahla.
“Well,” Kari Arnett thought to herself, “what do I know? I’m only a woman.” It started as a feeling when Arnett would try and offer songwriting suggestions to her male band counterparts and would get shut down. Maybe my opinion […]
“There’s a history of panic here that makes lots of noise,” Shellye Valauskas confesses in “Leftover Mistake,” a single line that is inspiration for the title of her new album History Of Panic. But the noise is one that’s eerily […]
In the daily grind of living through American anxiety, even music is not always a guaranteed respite. Thomm Jutz’ new album Crazy If You Let It is a welcome antidote, as if it were made to help us cope through the crazy times. Jutz, […]
It isn’t everyday that you can get up close with an artist and feel like you have unfettered access to their most personal thoughts. The proposition of cameras lurking everywhere, be it at home, in the studio and on the […]
The first time I ever heard the words “Grateful Dead” were in the same breadth as Workingman’s Dead. I was a nerdy nine or ten year old but curious and quizzical with a tendency to ask others older than me […]
You could be forgiven if you felt like you were back in time. The tables in front of the stage at Jammin Java outside Washington, D.C. looked the same as when a young Buffalo singer stood onstage at the famed […]
Faith Evans Ruch is an emerging singer from Memphis who is part of the city’s burgeoning music scene. On her second album Lessons In Falling, Ruch, supported by a long list of friends and players, gets the Royal treatment of […]
Christmas wasn’t supposed to come this way or this early. When Last Train Home promised to be back for a series of holiday shows at Iota, the calendar got moved up with the news that the club would be shutting […]
It’s been more than fifteen years since the late Jay Bennett left Wilco but his separation is still being discussed to this day–and some eight years since he died prematurely in his sleep. And now a new documentary Where are […]
Does anybody know what time it is? Does anybody really care? Old songs tend to drift in and out of our sub-conscious at the most random of times. For some reason the old Chicago song came to mind as I […]