When singer-songwriter, Brad Colerick moved to Los Angeles from Nebraska he carried with him the heart of the country in a town that wasn’t known for its affection for country music. But it the songs came as natural to him as the […]
When singer-songwriter, Brad Colerick moved to Los Angeles from Nebraska he carried with him the heart of the country in a town that wasn’t known for its affection for country music. But it the songs came as natural to him as the […]
Boz Scaggs, best known in mainstream pop music for his classic ’70s disco-era album, Silk Degrees, has always drawn his roots, influence, and musical expression from Texas blues. He began with a blues guitar in his hands as a teenager in Texas. The […]
New releases are rare from the Rolling Stones. The last studio album of new material that garnered uniformly critical, popular and well-deserved praise dates back to 1978’s Some Girls. In the studio, the band commonly-and arguably-known as the “World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band” has left […]
Photographs by Jacki Sackheim As American music history continues to unfold, our icons, legends, troubadours, and storytellers often bring with them unique windows of time that only they can open. Sometimes, thanks to the clear-eyed legacy of a living legend, […]
When singer-songwriter Bonnie Sims was three years old, she dreamed of singing American music on stage. Her dreams were etched in history when, five years later, she saw the Will Rogers Follies. “There was something beyond magical about it for […]
Few artists in American music history can be considered as influential and as closely identified with their genre as Hawaiian slack key legend Gabby Pahinui. Most Hawaiian artists – and some mainland roots music players like Ry Cooder and Taj […]
Some voices effortlessly embody the diversity, unity and passion of American music. In her voice, in the way Aireene Espiritu sings her original songs, she is at once a rare breed of artist, a soul singer, a folk troubadour, a blues […]