This year I have vowed to start attending more jam sessions. I live near Richmond, VA and fortunately there are many such hootenannies and meetups supported by a close-knit and very encouraging traditional music community. Here are a few of […]
This year I have vowed to start attending more jam sessions. I live near Richmond, VA and fortunately there are many such hootenannies and meetups supported by a close-knit and very encouraging traditional music community. Here are a few of […]
Here are some of my favorite live music memories from 2011 in no particular order. Vishten – October 2011 at In Your Ear Studios I was fortunate to witness this neo-traditional Acadian group at a special post-Richmond Folk Festival evening […]
The Jayhawks are back with Gary Louris and Mark Olson at the helm! The recently reunited Minnesota rockers released a statement concerning their new studio album Mockingbird Time saying that they (paraphrasing) “set out to make not just a good Jayhawks album, but the best […]
I recently returned from a visit to St. John’s, Newfoundland, North America’s oldest and most Easterly city. St. John’s is known to be saturated with Irish traditional and Celtic rock music, but for a smallish city on a fairly remote […]
I recently happened upon a recording of fiddle-based music called The Gu-Achi Fiddlers, Old Time O’odham Fiddle Music, Volume 1. It is available on Canyon Records, a small label devoted to Native American music. Despite a cover photo which makes […]
An album that’s been bending my ear recently is Desert Etiquette by Floating Action; released earlier this year on Park the Van records. Floating Action is the moniker for Black Mountain, NC songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Seth Kauffman. Aside from a little bit […]
My first listen to the new Dawes album Nothing Is Wrong must have been on a good day because it hooked me right away. I wasn’t bothered by any of the things that initially kept me from loving their debut […]
What do you do when for years you’ve had an idea in mind of what your favorite music might sound like and then along comes a band of charismatic, smartalecks who just so happen to make that same sound? Such […]
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