In 2020, Haroula Rose’s film Once Upon a River was released to critical acclaim. Based on an adaptation of Bonnie Jo Campbell’s novel of the same title, the movie follows Margo as she travels up the river in search […]
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Roland White, who died earlier this year, was never a showman; he was a steady presence on whatever stage he stood, or away from the stage entirely, always ready to contribute where he could. But White’s generosity as musician and […]
Fifteen years ago, Elizabeth Cook — never one to pull punches in her songs — told the harsh truth about the challenges women artists faced in country music in the songs on her album, Balls. In her anthemic title track, […]
Kenny Loggins has many musical claims to fame: movie songs like “Danger Zone” from Top Gun, “Footloose” from the original movie, and “I’m Alright” from Caddyshack and we as his solo records and his hits with Loggins & Messina, like […]
Summertime and the living is, well, not so easy these days, but summer often provides a chance to catch up on our reading. Here are a few music books to add to your to-be-read pile this summer. Caryn […]
Old rockers never die, nor do they fade away; they write their memoirs. Or, in the case of Long Train Runnin’: Our Story of The Doobie Brothers (St. Martin’s), band founders Tom Johnston and Pat Simmons tell their stories to […]
Since 1986, Greil Marcus has written a column called “Real Life Rock Top 10.” Each month, he explains his “top ten” takes on music, film, TV, art, politics, fiction, and nonfiction, and with his scattershot firing from the hip, he […]
From 1979 to 1984, Mark Hembree played bass with Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys. In his new memoir, On the Bus with Bill Monroe: My Five-Year-Ride with the Father of Blue Grass (Illinois), he tells cracking good stories […]
Listen to any of Amy Speace’s albums — her newest is Tucson, reviewed here — and you’ll hear a singer whose soul pours out poetry and a storyteller adept at creating a multidimensional narrative whose every facet shines with […]
Darden Smith’s stunning new project, Western Skies, exquisitely captures the expansiveness of the landscape of Texas and the American Southwest in photographs, essays, poems, and songs. In a book and album of the same title, Smith produces a cinematic […]
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