Compilation albums are usually a treat for the listener. When done correctly, they combine wonderful songs with some of the best artists and musicians in the business. “Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout” which was released on Nov. 16, showcases the songs […]
Many baby boomers got their first taste of the blues through an English filter. Starting in the ’60s, Brit blues/rockers like The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Animals, Led Zeppelin, and John Mayall and the Blues Breakers introduced American teens […]
The fount of Americana music flows not from upstate New York and a big pink house, or from the laid-back psychedelic country of Southern California sweetheart’s rodeo. The headwaters of Americana music flow straight out of little towns in Alabama […]
The music that flowed out of Muscle Shoals studios is the fount of Americana music. The dynamic group of studio musicians and writers that layered the singular sound emanating from FAME gained their own measure of fame, of course, in […]
It looks like the Stones logo, but on closer inspection, the face around the protruding tongue is a bit more weathered and hairy than the Stones original. Maybe it’s truth in advertising at last – the old boys acknowledging their […]
“My name is Roger Miller, probably one of the greatest songwriters that ever lived, and I have written a few songs, probably eight or nine hundred in my professional career and I would like to do about 700 or 750 […]
Bluegrass artist John Duffey probably needs no introduction. The late Washington D.C. singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist founded two highly influential bands in the world of roots music, after all – The Country Gentlemen and The Seldom Scene. Credited with widening the […]
/banjo-itis/ adjective That ringing in the ears that comes from prolonged exposure to the high pitched plunking of strings stretched over catskin. There is no known cure. MerleFest is a joyous annual celebration of old-time high and […]
Summer might be a time when the rest of the world slows down and tries to catch up with itself, but not the publishing world. Since April and May, publishers have been releasing their fall 2018 catalogs, whose pages are […]
I’d never heard of the Ru-Jac label until Omnivore Records bought its assets and began reissuing material from its vaults last year. Chances are, you still aren’t familiar with this Baltimore-based soul/R&B company, which operated primarily from 1963 until the […]
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