We would like to introduce you to the musicians who sometimes accompany Switchback on the road: Nick Hirka on drums and ukulele and Paul Russell on violin and guitar. You may have been fortunate enough to hear them play along with […]
We would like to introduce you to the musicians who sometimes accompany Switchback on the road: Nick Hirka on drums and ukulele and Paul Russell on violin and guitar. You may have been fortunate enough to hear them play along with […]
Sometimes lightning does in fact strike the same place twice. This is definitely so with the Gainesville folk-punk duo Coffee Project, whose members, Buddy Schaub and Jake Crown, have already found levels of success with other punk rock and ska […]
Photo by Maria Camillo by S. Victor Aaron Sometimes it takes a fantastic cover of a song to make you realize how good the original has always been. This One Track Mind is about one of those times. When I […]
James Lewis Carter Ford, also known by the moniker T-Model Ford, is the blues. That is to say, the blues isn’t just a way to describe his music but also his lifestyle – hard times and hard liquor, bad women […]
This is the third and final location of my video shoot with North Dakota musician, Chuck Suchy. The sun was beginning to sink into the horizon. The open prairie stretched out behind us and it was a lovely evening to […]
Once again, it has proven valuable to hang out in Hunter. Last night we went bar hopping back and forth between Happy Cow and Riley’s, and I can’t remember how many times we crossed those railroad tracks. Between talking to […]
Switchback is offering its first songwriters weekend to take place April 8-10 at Four Mounds Inn, Dubuque, Iowa. The spring seminar will feature noted songwriter and leader of Lamb’s Retreat Songwriting Weekends, John Lamb. “So far the biggest […]
Larry would have loved the latest news from Washington, I think. When I think of independent community radio, I think of Larry Weir. He was a beloved DJ and driving force behind KDHX radio in St. Louis, arguably one of […]
This is the second location of our shoot with Chuck on his family farm. When we began shooting this video, the heat was beginning to get the best of us, however by the end of the song the heat had […]
The albums of Cameron McGill are chock-full of ideas and inventions beyond anyone I’ve listened to in recent years. The fact that this man is not already a household name is surprising, but, in a way, comforting. With today’s white […]
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