Steve Wosahla

When you stand on the stage of the Ryman Auditorium, there’s a feeling that overcomes you. “Every country music artist has stood there,” Charlie Daniels once told me, his voice rising with emotion. “And when you look out, you say ‘This is the mother church of country music. This

Sometimes a door is unlocked and you’re meant to open it. On a cold October night in Manhattan, the way to the Beacon Theatre box office wound around a square block on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Walking behind the historic theater on Broadway two hours before showtime, I

Jim Lauderdale was in Erskine High School in South Carolina working at a college radio station when someone there told him about a record called Grievous Angel. “You have to hear this,” he told Lauderdale. “It’s amazing.” And it was. Forty years later, Lauderdale recalls how it “blew” his