If anyone knows anything about the music industry, it’s a hard game to get yourself noticed; especially if you’re a musician. Unfortunately, Cody Beebe and The Crooks fall under the category of being a musician, a collective of musicians, but […]
Michael Weston King is just about the busiest man in folk and roll and has been for more than 20 years, cutting his own deep rootsy unashamedly (for a UK artist) Americana furrow since before “Americana” was the designated label […]
From The Boot Jamey Johnson is joining forces with gospel greats the Blind Boys of Alabama to make the group’s next album, and he’s recruited some fellow artists to lend their voices to the project, as well. Jamey has apparently […]
Elton John and Leon Russell have finished recording an album of new material. The Union is scheduled for an October 19 release on Decca Records. The album is produced by T Bone Burnett and features fifteen original songs written by […]
I type with 2 fingers so I’m usually the last to update my blog postings. But it has to be done. I’m sitting in my office – The Beanery Coffeehouse down by the train station – and using the wi-fi. […]
(Wallstreet Journal) In the audience at a recent Natalie Merchant concert at an 880-seat theater in Los Angeles, Adam Miles couldn’t focus. The man to his left was holding up his cell phone, shooting video. “Please,” Mr. Miles asked his […]
Waylon Jennings is the quintessential outlaw country star, ranking far above even Willie Nelson. In fact, only three other figures in the entire history of country music- Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Cash, and Hank himself- even come close to touching him […]
Last week my iPod turned 20,000 songs old when I uploaded my six disc set of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. It feels to me as if I have a lot of music but when I last checked […]
The stages are being built and final preparations made for the tenth consecutive Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. The weather gods have been appeased and our mini heatwave is rapidly abating to bless the fest with near perfect weather. Two recent interviews […]
A good one to put on and listen all-the-way-through. I think this is my favorite pop album of 2010, so far. Piano-driven soul with bounce, horns too, and tremendous vocal focus.
