“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” -Andy Warhol When Beth Bombara and I […]
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When I saw Sam Outlaw for the first time last year he was so impressive. At King’s Place in London, where we’d gone to see Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison, we found that they weren’t the headliners as we’d expected […]
Paul Burch is one of those artists who I love because he brings a unique sound and perspective to everything he records. Whether he honors Southern soul, Buddy Holly, or, most recently on Meridian Rising, imagines a musical autobiography from the perspective of Jimmie Rodgers, […]
The Piedmont plateau region stretches across the Eastern Seaboard from Alabama, through Virginia, and up toward New Jersey. That’s where an old form of blues comes from, and the theme of a new collection from Smithsonian Folkways. As our own Grant […]
If the position of poet laureate continues to exist in the midst of budget cuts to the arts, then Rodney Crowell should surely be a candidate for it. Whether he’ll accept it or not, he’s now assumed the mantle of […]
Note: This was written ten years ago but contains information I seldom see on the Net. It is based on an interview from 2007. Gary Duncan was another deer caught in the headlights and he owes it to a myopic […]
Any Bob Dylan fans out there? Yeah? Maybe just a few? Then you probably already know that his latest album is coming out this Friday. Triplicate is a three-disc monster of songs by American songwriters who aren’t Bob Dylan. You […]
Most bluegrass bands never progress beyond playing gigs in retirement centers, local orchards, and their best friends’ weddings, where they often work for free. Some become a bit better known, working for modest appearance fees at local and regional festivals, […]
Now (well, 2016): Charlie Daniels, Night Hawk: the title character, that quiet fella over there, lost his wife and babies in a sagebrush fire, so best not mess with him, This here set is at home on the emotional and […]
A lot has already been written about SXSW, now in its 30th year on this website and so many others. But suffice it to say, it is no longer a music festival, it is an extravaganza. Many folks I know have either […]
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