Very different on the face of it, but I was struck by the similar thrusts iof their current projects--and different ways of dealing with them:


http://tiny.cc/8obdB

It surprises people that she's the only woman, so far at least, to make it into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She's also a pleasure to sit and talk with:

Read the interview here.

I thought it was interesting that at his great AMA show at the Mercy Lounge, here in Nashville, with Buddy Miller and Billy Burnette behind him, among others, he didn't include the outright country numbers from the new Blue Ridge Rangers CD, songs from Ray Price and Buck Owens and the Kendalls, for instance--in the set, maybe thinking Americana fans don't go for the country. (I suspect more would go for Buck Owns than John Denver, but who knows for sure!)



Anyway, there are things… Continue

Hard news from Memphis. I saw him perform there in May, he was still wonderful--though more here will know him for his work with other artists and his family. One of a kind he was. -Barry Mazor







Memphis musician Jim Dickinson dies at 67



Originally published 11:02 a.m., August 15, 2009





Iconic Memphis musician and producer Jim Dickinson has died.



The 67 year-old Dickinson passed away early Saturday morning in his sleep, according… Continue

Mike's wife reported to rec.music.country-old time, and Cybergrass further details:





Silent Strings: Mike Seeger Loses Battle with Cancer



Cybergrass Aug. 08, 2009:

Mike Seeger lost his battle with cancer last night, August 7. Back on Thursday, July 30, Mary Katherine Adlin at Folklore Productions informed us that Mike Seeger, one of the founding members of the New Lost City Ramblers, and the half-brother of folk singer Pete Seeger, had been battling leukemia for… Continue

At this link:

http://bit.ly/acjCp

or google Big Surprise Tour Wall Street Journal

I'd just like everyone who'd enjoyed or even found useful my writing in No Depression magazine, bookazine and online over the years to know that my long -brewing book on the legacy and influence of Jimmie Rodgers in country, rock, folk, blues, western and American pop in general, Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century, is out and shipping, from places like Amazon.com and the publisher, Oxford University Press.



Since… Continue