ALBUM REVIEW: Buddy & Julie Miller Share Pain and Hope on 'In The Throes'
Four years after their acclaimed Breakdown on 20th Ave. South, Buddy and Julie Miller return with a gem of an album. To listen to this album is to be “in the throes” of a compelling attraction to intimately delivered songs about departure, courage, endurance and resolution, and love. Joining the
Musicians Duet With Nightingales to Amplify a Message
Across the US and the globe, the effects of climate change have become shatteringly clear this year. The historic town of Lahaina on Maui torched by wildfires, flooded homes in Vermont, Southern California visited by a hurricane. These images of climate catastrophes have become a regular occurrence and show a
ALBUM REVIEW: Nothing Is Gonna Stand In Lydia Loveless' Way Again
For many people, their late 20s and early 30s are a messy time. The type of messy — job, love, family, spirituality, overindulgence — is almost immaterial. It’s the overwhelming sense that they should have their footing by now. Life goes one way, but things seem to be moving in another.
ALBUM REVIEW: Jenny Owen Youngs Distills a Tempestuous Decade Into ‘Avalanche’
Jenny Owen Youngs has lived through just about every possible human experience since her last full-length album in 2012, An Unwavering Band of Light. Eleven years, a marriage, a divorce, a second marriage, and a baby later, Owen Youngs returns to the microphone with her intimate Avalanche. The album finds
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Campaigns Supporting Roots Music and Related Creative Causes
Music is a very small part of the crowdfunding landscape. For example, the high-water mark for funding for a music campaign on Kickstarter (Amanda Palmer) is just over $1 million. Just last year, fantasy author Brandon Sanderson raised $41 million for a series of four novels. Technology, games, television shows,
ALBUM REVIEW: Troubadour Brent Cobb Returns With Distinctive and Assured ‘Southern Star’
There’s a scene in the 1976 documentary Heartworn Highways where an array of songwriting legends — Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, and a young Steve Earle among them — are sitting around a room having a classic guitar pull just for themselves. It’s a bit tender, a bit