On the evening of Aug. 12, 2018, hundreds gathered in Central Park for a celebration of the enduring and transformative power of music. Singer-songwriter Richard Barone put together a concert called “Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s,” featuring […]
Over the past decade, Nashville has become almost unrecognizable to anyone who’s been there a while. New apartment buildings spring up every day, and mammoth hotels break ground even as older buildings are imploded across town. Music Row, that venerable […]
After living on the road for about a year in 2014, Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish, The Honey Dewdrops, were ready to get out of the van and establish a home base. Both from Virginia originally, they’d been living in […]
Here’s how the post-show merch-table conversation used to go for me as a fan: I go to the show to hear an artist I love play music that means something to me. I walk up to the merch table, maybe […]
What a delight to learn today that Buddy and Julie Miller are together again, musically, with a new album coming in June, as first reported by NPR’s All Songs Considered. The married duo’s personal chemistry and one-of-a-kind harmonies were well […]
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” — Gustav Mahler With the Great Smoky Mountains to the southwest and the Daniel Boone Nation Forest to the northwest, there may never be a more apt use […]
“Soft you now! the fair Ophelia” and “frailty, thy name is woman” are two well-known phrases from William Shakespeare’s best-known play, Hamlet (c. 1599). When singer-songwriter Karl Digerness was thinking of a name for his “Shakespeare cover band,” he linked the phrases […]
The mid-1970s were not a fertile time for Townes Van Zandt’s recording career. Though he had released six albums by 1972’s The Late Great Townes Van Zandt, its follow-up, Flyin’ Shoes, wouldn’t see the light of day until 1978. In […]
Between my weekly column for No Depression, keeping my own website updated, maintaining a digital magazine, and aggregating music news on a Facebook page, I devote about three or four hours each day to scanning headlines, as well as searching […]
The other night I listened to Gary Clark Jr. talk to Marc Maron on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast and the topic of traveling with gear came up. Gary said that his best vintage amps and guitars live at […]
