By Jon Black from www.AwaitingTheFlood.com It is one of the best known and most iconic origin stories in American music: on April 14, 1935, a young woman was born into poverty in the rural community of Butcher Hollow along the Kentucky coal […]
By Kyle McCraw | CountryMusicPride.com No doubt, John McEuen is a lot of things to a lot of people. He’s a multi-instrumentalist, founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, solo artist, producer, documentarian, film scorer, concert promoter, and XM […]
Originally posted in CountryMusicPride.com | By Erin McLaughlin Every so often you come across a band whose music sort of reaches out and shakes hands with your soul. That’s just what the music of LA’s own Truth & Salvage Co. […]
By Meghan D. Shapirpo | Originally posted at CountryMusicPride.com When Jason Ringenberg strutted into Nashville in 1981, he didn’t imagine his idea of combining modern punk rock and traditional country would later land his band, Jason & The Scorchers, one […]
By Kyle McCraw | Originally posted at CountryMusicPride.com “Rock & Roots or Roots & Roll, whatever you want to call it – we challenge you to find a description that fits other than good music you can count on when […]
By Lindsay Eanet | Originally posted at www.CountryMusicPride.com Decades ago, idealistic youths dreamed of running off to the circus, becoming nomads taming lions and walking on wires. Today, alt-country grassroots heroes Drive-By Truckers are living the dream of the modern-day […]
By Jon Black Reposted from CountryMusicPride.com Rosanne Cash’s new album, The List, could be called the Dead Sea Scrolls of country music. A strange analogy, but an entirely apt one for a disc with twelve tracks by Cash from a […]
By Dan Evon Reprinted from CountryMusicPride.com On The Road With Port O’Brien – Interview Interviews — By CMP on November 2, 2009 at 6:00 am | Edit I had been listening to Port O’brien for an entire week. I had […]
By Tomi L. Wiley Reposted from CountryMusicPride.com According to Ira “Dr. Ike” Padnos, rock and roll is an American export that paved the way for many different types of music, laying a base for performers to experiment with rockabilly, R&B, […]
By Kyle McCraw Reprinted from CountryMusicPride.com Guy Clark is a name I feel like I should know better than I do, and looking at what he’s done, only reinforces that feeling. He has written for Johnny Cash and Bobby Bare, […]
