Heaven’s just a sin away. Actually, just a few seats. Kelly Willis had made a hit of the Kendalls’ “Heaven” tune some time ago. She had quick success in interpreting others’ songs as well as doing some fine songs of […]
Ron Wray lives in Norfolk, VA. A writer most of his life, he is recipient of the Illinois Poet Laureate Award presented by Gwendolyn Brooks, the Washington, D.C. Arts and Humanities Commission Literature Fellowship, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, and Special Project Grants from the Washington, D.C. Commission and the Illinois Arts Council. He is the author of three books and over 300 publications in journals and anthologies. He has performed his work widely across the country with dancers, actors, and musicians collaborating with him. He currently teaches 6th grade English, but spent much of his working life as an arts administrator, including being executive director/director of the Ragdale Foundation artists retreat, the National Institute of Arts and Disabilities, and the International Writers Center of Old Dominion University/Associated Writing Programs/George Mason University. He loves to play guitar, sing, and write songs, and is an avid listener/follower of music and his favorite musicians.
Heaven’s just a sin away. Actually, just a few seats. Kelly Willis had made a hit of the Kendalls’ “Heaven” tune some time ago. She had quick success in interpreting others’ songs as well as doing some fine songs of […]
The Tillers dig deep into musical earth along the banks of the long, lingering, and rolling waters of the Ohio River surrounding Cincinnati. The young men are wedded to the river and the city, the area’s history, people, and music. […]
Imagine Dragons has created a world of their own, one that a lot of people, of all ages, want to enter. They have reason to, as the band does everything they can to facilitate an audience’s transportation to deeper levels […]
Hubby Jenkins is carrying the tradition forward and enjoying the ride. In a performance recently in a large craft brewery in Norfolk, Virginia, he showed off his prodigious talents with banjo, (parlor-size, acoustic) guitar, voice, and bones. He’d played shortly […]
They are an undiscovered gem. They are seven J’s ending in H. They are energy with music at its powerful core. They are beauty encased in the skin of a rose. They are a blend at the apex of rock […]
(From Part One) The world shares a voice when it comes to music, a central expression extracting the best and profoundest in us. Comprised always of sound, in its rhythms, reaches, and rampings up-and-down, music also includes silence, but not […]
This was the 30th year of the Folk Alliance International Conference, held in recent years in Kansas City, possibly to return. However, Montreal will host next year’s conference. The conference is very much like a festival and is comprised of […]
Tom Kimmel is one of a kind among many. There are quite a few singer songwriters, and Tom has being doing it for a long time. But, he’s one of the best, with a quality that shines through. So, it’s […]
“So, are you a Bon Iver fan?” I asked the young boy next to me. His handsome young father looked down and said, “Say, yes, sir.” His son grinned up at me and replied eagerly, “Yes, sir!” That was the […]
Dan Mills is a hot rod, as in a souped-up fast car, steeped in a honky tonk, Hank Williamsy world of fast tunes and deep balladry. Mills has left his alter ego Carl Perkins behind these days, but not far. […]
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