What do you do when for years you’ve had an idea in mind of what your favorite music might sound like and then along comes a band of charismatic, smartalecks who just so happen to make that same sound? Such […]
What do you do when for years you’ve had an idea in mind of what your favorite music might sound like and then along comes a band of charismatic, smartalecks who just so happen to make that same sound? Such […]
Seeing Beyond What You Know Rascal Flatts Goes Down to the River They make it so easy, They really do. The hair, the high Wal-Mart bling, the bad jokes. Rascal Flatts, the pop-leaning country trio whose songs have spoken to […]
The Reverend John Wilkins visited Off Broadway in St. Louis last Wednesday (July 13th). Despite a horribly mismatched opening act (a guitar-and-drums duo in their early twenties, obviously living out their White Stripes fantasies), it was a magical night. The […]
I reckon this’ll be the third album for Wisconsin native Josh Harty. Coming from an intensely musical background, he seems to have been playing and performing most of his 30-odd years and his fluency on the acoustic guitar is […]
MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST JOHN COLLETTA ORIGINALLY THE SINGER SONGWRITER BLAMED FOR THE SCOTTISH FOLKABILLY PHENOMENON “THE HUMPFF FAMILY” – HAS RECORDED A NEW CD “…LIVING IN HOPE…” – AVAILABLE FROM WWW.JOHNCOLETTA.COM – NOW PERFORMING – SOLO WE MAKE THE ENQUIRE! 1. […]
by Cat Johnson Collaborations are nothing new in Nashville. Songwriters get together looking for inspiration or a creative spark, and every once in a while lightning strikes. Such was the case for Joy Williams and John Paul White. Randomly […]
By Terry Roland (Originally published in San Diego Troubadour) “Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there. There were many great days and many not so great days. I tried […]
Saturday was Record Store Day – an international celebration of local, independent music retailers – and as part of the occasion John Doe and Jill Sobule delivered an in-store concert at Euclid Records in St. Louis (they’d performed the night […]
No other blues musician, living or dead, has been written about more than Robert Johnson. Why write about him? Because his music played a major role in my life, (at one time)my lifestyle, the music I play and the way […]
Annual Blues Music Awards is May 5th – FEATURING performances by honorees buddy guy, denise lasalle and john hammond, among others Special Tribute to 2011 BMA Nominees Solomon Burke, Pinetop Perkins & Robin Rogers, as well as to Robert Johnson, […]
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