Michael Elliott

For a short time in the mid-1980s, Lone Justice had everything going for them. They’d been signed to a major label at the suggestion of Linda Ronstadt, endorsed by no less than Dolly Parton, and were at the forefront of a movement to return authenticity to both country and

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One of the many highlights at The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville is a painstakingly accurate recreation of Guy Clark’s workshop, the basement haven where he would go to work on guitars, solve life’s problems, write songs and sometimes demo them. It was a

Folk archivist Alan Lomax once said, “America has a patchwork culture made of the dreams and songs of all its people.” In his travels, Lomax discovered songs that spoke to the American experience, many handed down and shared by immigrants from disparate backgrounds. That tradition continues today with American Patchwork