Andrea Zonn remembers the first time she met Alison Krauss. She was ten and Alison was eight and the two were introduced at the Champaign Festival in Illinois. Growing up, the two tried to pick apart Emmylou Harris and Little […]
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It was a Friday night but not just any Friday night. In the moments leading up to the Grand Ole Opry’s first weekend episode in the new year of 2015, word came that it had lost one of its own, the 94-year-old […]
There is this moment in the trailer of Gorman Bechard’s new documentary Who Is Lydia Loveless? where the singer is entranced onstage in her own grueling self-examination. As she blasts the song’s breakthrough line, it’s like she’s waving a victory flag of liberation. […]
Edie Brickell woke up Christmas morning ahead of her family. Sitting in her Connecticut kitchen, she went to her computer hoping her musical partner Steve Martin sent her a present of a new banjo track—and he did. With her dogs […]
They come on late at night. You see them all sitting in a row onstage as they do their celebrity rat pack roasts packaged and available on dvd. As Sammy Davis and Don Rickles stand up to deliver one punchline […]
For Buddy Miller, it’s always great having his friend Shawn Colvin come by and sing. This month, Colvin will visit Miller’s home studio to record a new album with Steve Earle. “I want to be around for that,” said Miller […]
When you stand on the stage of the Ryman Auditorium, there’s a feeling that overcomes you. “Every country music artist has stood there,” Charlie Daniels once told me, his voice rising with emotion. “And when you look out, you say […]
Sometimes a walk in the park can clear the mind and is good for the soul. And when you live in Nashville, you never know who you’re going to meet. During a random stroll, Jim Lauderdale ran into Luther Dickinson […]
It was an idea for something he called mouth percussion. It was a simple overdub for a breathy vocal sound of an “aaah” repeated multiple times over several minutes of what would become the Zombies biggest called “Time of The […]
Sometimes a door is unlocked and you’re meant to open it. On a cold October night in Manhattan, the way to the Beacon Theatre box office wound around a square block on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Walking behind the historic […]
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