A highlight of my musical year for nearly a decade has been the Transatlantic Sessions, the series of shows put together by Jerry Douglas and Aly Bain. Each year they and their house band are joined by a select group […]
Festivals often seem intended to test one’s endurance. Multiple stages demand that choices be made, oftentimes at the expense of missing one artist in order to see another. Dragging yourself the distance between far-flung venues drains both time and energy […]
He called it dispensation. Special dispensation for white boys. There was a routine Guy Clark would remember years later: Someone would call ahead and get clearance that that a group of young white boys wanted to come see Lightning Hopkins. The […]
Once a fiddle player for the Osborne Brothers, singer-songwriter Shawn Camp managed one major-label country release in the early ’90s before retreating into the Nashville seams where all the forms of country music, from bluegrass to mainstream, are knit together. […]
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