Early in April 2014, Delbert McClinton was headed down to play a show in St. Augustine, Florida. He’d just returned from Austin, where his son, Clay, lay in a coma that doctors had induced to heal the brain trauma Clay […]
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A great poet and storyteller needs only a guitar to deliver the emotional rawness of soul searching and the ragged desperation of trying to come to terms with one’s place in the world. East Nashville’s Rod Picott creates stark, haunting, […]
Memphis guitarist Joe Restivo, a member of the legendary Bo-Keys, gets some long overdue recognition with the release of his first album. He’s been refining his jazz and blues chops in his weekly residency over the last four years at […]
Sometime in late 1965 or early 1966, a slogan spray-painted on a wall in London proclaimed: “Clapton is God.” Although he later said he was embarrassed by the slogan, Clapton’s fluid guitar riffs across a range of styles revealed his […]
On July 4, fireworks burst thunderously over city parks, smells wafting from charcoal grills hang heavy in the air, and music played by high school bands provides the drumbeat and the soundtrack for holiday parades in towns both large and […]
Like the two rivers, the Assiniboine and the Red, after which this album is named, the vocals of Cara Luft and JD Edwards wash over us, purifying us with the clarity of their harmonies as the fiddles, banjos, guitars, and […]
It’s a good year to be Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, probably even better than the short time they existed as a “supergroup” in 1969 and 1970. Andrew Slater’s film Echo in the Canyon recalls the heyday of the idyllic […]
The driving “The Man Who Shook the World” rockets off Chuck Mead’s rockin’ and rollin’ new album, Close to Home. Rick Steff’s piano rolls and sways, Jerry Lee Lewis-like, under the propulsive guitars of Mead, John Paul Keith, and producer […]
Best known for his pop standard “Cruel to Be Kind” and his pensive anthem “(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding,” Nick Lowe remains a bit of an enigma. He’s a hard-working, ceaselessly inventive songwriter and a first-rate musician, […]
It’s hard to keep up with Jim Lauderdale. The man who knows Americana music when he hears it — and used to declare so every year at the Americana Music Awards — has an ear for purity of expression over […]
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