A regular question asked of authors is “Why do you write?” It’s a fair question. With the exception of a few well-known names, the pay per hour put into writing a novel, poem, or song certainly takes “for the […]
A regular question asked of authors is “Why do you write?” It’s a fair question. With the exception of a few well-known names, the pay per hour put into writing a novel, poem, or song certainly takes “for the […]
A while back I attended a Todd Snider and Chicago Farmer concert, and during one of Snider’s famous “as much as 16 minutes between the songs” monologues, he noted that the music he and Chicago Farmer make is now […]
Recently my fellow ND columnist and vinyl purist Amos Perrine wrote the fourth in his periodic series on vinyl. While I never fully got on board the vinyl train, it’s impossible to keep up with the crowdfunding world without […]
This column publishes on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and while it can be argued how much progress society as a whole has made in achieving Dr. King’s dream, as a roots music journalist and fan, it’s been […]
There’s an old real estate slogan that says the most important thing in property sales is “location, location, location.” To some degree, that’s true of music, too. Names like Nashville, Bakersfield, Muscle Shoals, and Sunset Boulevard conjure a certain […]
Winter is prime crowdfunding season. With the summer tour season over, artists’ minds turn toward their next album, and that leads to an increase in campaigns. It’s a nice problem to have if you happen to write about crowdfunding […]
I don’t back all of the albums I feature in this space. If I did, I’d be writing for negative money. But I do back quite a few, and recently one I featured a while back (Lady Moon) sent […]
Nashville. Austin. Laurel Canyon. Muscle Shoals. All places that come to mind when you think about roots music. The well-worn stories of artists packing up their dreams and heading to Nashville persist, though modern technology has rendered that journey […]
On Tom Lehrer’s live album, when introducing “A Christmas Carol,” he noted it wasn’t really the season for it but said “I’m informed by my disc jockey friends, of whom I have none, you have to start plugging it […]
The first modern era crowdfunding campaign is widely agreed to be from British progressive rockers Marillion, who, after their label refused to fund an American tour in 1997, got their fans to pony up in advance and bring the […]
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