Christian Sedelmyer’s new album opens with the sprightly tune “Table Mountain,” with his violin circling nimbly around Andrew Marlin’s mandolin. The tune opens slowly in two leisurely measures before blossoming into a lively reel that allows every instrument to dance […]
As the time comes to write another column about books, I struggle. It’s not because of my recent health issues, or any dearth of music books about which to write. My struggles arise from speaking to the travails of our […]
Levon Helm would have turned 80 this week. It’s been just over eight years since his unmistakable voice fell silent and his steady, propulsive drumming rolled over yonder. Spending the day listening to his music — whether from his years […]
A sprightly fiddle introduces “A Few Years Ago,” the nimble tune that opens singer-songwriter Daryl Mosley’s bright new album. The spry ballad flows along Adam Haynes’ fiddle lines, while the rest of the instruments weave themselves under and around Mosley’s […]
Lucy Clabby grew up in Wilmette, Illinois, spending happy summer days reading at her spacious local public library. “They had a great YA section, and on beautiful sunny days, I could stay there all day reading,” she recalls fondly. Her […]
Special Consensus celebrates its 45th anniversary by going back to the town where it was born and inviting a bunch of special guests to help them throw the party. Back in 1975, banjo player Greg Cahill founded the band, and […]
Food and music create a sense of place for us. We likely can still smell the bread or the casserole that mama would bake when we were in second grade and out playing in the yard before supper. A bite […]
Johnny Cash embodied the lyrics in the chorus of his friend Kris Kristofferson’s song “The Pilgrim, Chapter 33”: “He’s a poet, he’s a picker / He’s a prophet, he’s a pusher / He’s a pilgrim and a preacher, and a […]
Nerissa Nields has spent her life devoted to books, reading, writing, songwriting, and playing music. When she was in college, she took courses in English and music, and wound up majoring in English. “My first two loves were music and […]
There’s a raw beauty, an exquisite vulnerability, and a defiant passion running through the songs on Shelby Lynne, and Lynne’s brilliant canniness in exploring the musical landscape of emotions pulls us into the songs so that we can dwell with […]
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