Emma Swift was working in a pastry shop in Sydney when she made her daily walk home past three record stores. It was, she remembers, in the days she refers to as before the death of the CD. One of […]
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“Anti-dancing music, man.” They’re the first words Lydia Loveless hears when she comes off the stage at the Stagecoach music festival in Indio south of Los Angeles. Jessi Scott, the Toyota TRD stage emcee, kicks off the conversation streamed to the […]
On an October day in 1863 the Union and Confederate armies skirmished during the Battle of Bristoe in their first major encounter since Gettysburg in July. Frustrated in his attempts to bring on a decisive battle, Robert E. Lee plundered the […]
An otherwise scholarly discussion about Bob Dylan’s Nashville recordings suddenly got lively at the Country Music Hall of Fame. British songwriter and panelist Robyn Hitchcock introduced the theory that if you turn the cover of John Wesley Harding upside down, […]
From a small glass enclosure on the second floor of the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, WBCM Radio Bristol is like the little radio station that could. It may not have the range of Memphis’ WDIA that is the subject […]
As he sat onstage in the Ford Theater at the Country Music Hall of Fame, Ralph Peer II could talk about his global publishing empire that spanned eight countries and copyrights from present day stars including Jack White, Beyonce and Jason […]
Imagine suddenly you hear nothing except your own thoughts and this goes on for weeks. Some things in life seem to happen randomly and in the depth of despair, you’d be hard pressed to think they’re happening for a reason. […]
Summer has a certain cadence. There’s a rhythm of long days, the beach beckons and the pace of office life creates the illusion that time is slowing. There’s also that moment when you step outside and smell the air and […]
Jim Lauderdale was in Erskine High School in South Carolina working at a college radio station when someone there told him about a record called Grievous Angel. “You have to hear this,” he told Lauderdale. “It’s amazing.” And it was. Forty years […]
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