Constructed as a meeting hall in 1894, the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, with a seating capacity of about 400, would seem to be the ideal venue for a classically trained singer turned roots-music virtuoso who thrives in an intimate […]
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It’s hard to say just when the Drive-By Truckers outgrew their name–or even if the jokey moniker ever really fit them. Somewhere along the way they just stopped being the band that would dare to commit a drunken hoot-fest like “The […]
Maria McKee portrait by Shawn Cote
“My name is Andrew Tozier, I’m a child of Litchfield, Maine,” begins the Civil War story-song “Ballad of the 20th Maine,” a standout track from The Ghost of Paul Revere’s new EP Field Notes, Vol. 1. You don’t have to know Andrew […]
“My name is Andrew Tozier, I’m a child of Litchfield, Maine,” begins the Civil War story-song “Ballad of the 20th Maine,” a standout track from The Ghost of Paul Revere’s new EP Field Notes, Vol. 1. You don’t have to know Andrew […]
Rarely do great songwriters make exceptional prose stylists. If Steve Earle has authored his share of outstanding story-songs (“Copperhead Road,” “Ben McCulloch”), the same cannot be said of his prose fiction (Doghouse Roses, I’ll Never Get Out of This World […]
The question is dusty but no less significant: How do you follow up a masterpiece? More specifically, when you’re a rock band whose debut is the sort of tour de force that most recording artists can only hope to make […]
It’s a measure of how innocuous mainstream country music has become that Kacey Musgraves finds herself cast as Nashville’s latest rebel. For her part, the 26-year-old Texan seems disinclined to suffer that appellation gladly. More than once, in interviews, she […]
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