So maybe this is what it feels like when a label dumps a musician. Less than a month after HuffPost published my list of favorite artists of 2017, the contributors’ platform was shut down in January, thereby involuntarily ending my […]
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Heaven’s just a sin away. Actually, just a few seats. Kelly Willis had made a hit of the Kendalls’ “Heaven” tune some time ago. She had quick success in interpreting others’ songs as well as doing some fine songs of […]
Kelly is back with her first solo album (Back Being Blue) and tour in eleven years after tending to her four children. She has never sounded (or looked) better. What a welcome comeback.
The door swings open as we pass the café. The A/C is turned up all the way, and we are embraced by a coolly seductive rush of air. We catch an irresistible cosmopolitan groove from the jukebox and can no […]
Fifteen years or so ago I had tickets to see Kelly Willis. I’d fallen in love with her What I Deserve album and was really looking forward to seeing her, only for the gig to be cancelled. As it turned […]
Here’s a parlor game to be played at your own risk: Who are the finest singers in country music today? Raul Malo, Patty Loveless, Neko Case, Ray Price? What does “finest” even mean? For that matter, what does “country music” […]
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