Cruz Contreras is lean and fit at the front end of his 40s, with a tan deepened by playing festivals throughout the American West for much of the summer. His salt-and-pepper hair flops down in locks when he stomps the […]
Cruz Contreras is lean and fit at the front end of his 40s, with a tan deepened by playing festivals throughout the American West for much of the summer. His salt-and-pepper hair flops down in locks when he stomps the […]
In the historic paradise of brick and painted-wall facades of downtown Bristol, nestled into the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee and Virginia, music lovers returned to a reunion of souls seeking new adventures in sound, from the historic to the venturesome. Sixty […]
Cruz Contreras had just written “Hard to Please,” the song that would eventually become the title track for the Black Lillies’ fourth studio album, when he asked his son, Cash, to give it a listen. “I had originally written it […]
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