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Madonna Hamel

Will Kimbrough's Sideshow Love

Will Kimbrough's Sideshow Love

Sideshow Love takes all the pretty paper off the gift of love. Or, if we take the carnival metaphor a step further, it's love as the opposite of a roller coaster, the fun part first, hands up in the air, next to someone special, wind in your face,

John Prine's Great Days Anthology Revisited

John Prine's Great Days Anthology Revisited

I've had the liner notes for Great Days, The John Prine Anthology, in my briefcase for a while, thinking that when I had the opportunity, I'd read them. I mean, I'm only 20 years late in doing so. The record came out in 1993,

Kelly Joe Phelps: A Pilgrim’s Year

Kelly Joe Phelps: A Pilgrim’s Year

Kelly Joe Phelps has just returned from California, having played his first show since the diagnosis of ulnar nerve damage, eight months ago. At the end of the week he picks up where he left off last January, touring Great Britain for a month with Brother Sinner and the Whale,

All roads lead to Nashville: Americana one year later

All roads lead to Nashville: Americana one year later

The calling It's coming up to a year since I pitched Portrait of Lincoln With the Wart, a radio documentary on the evolution of Americana as a musical term and, ultimately, a musical ethos. The idea came after my sister took me to a Lucinda Williams concert in