BONUS TRACKS: Joni Mitchell to Join Brandi Carlile for 2023 Concert
After her triumphant surprise return to the stage after many years away at Newport Folk Festival this summer, Joni Mitchell has decided to book a show for 2023. She’ll join Brandi Carlile at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington state next June for one of Carlile’s “Echoes Through the
Lucinda Williams Announces Memoir ‘Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You’
We love Lucinda Williams’ songs because of the vivid characters and settings within them (and because of the way she sings them), and now she’s telling her own story in a memoir titled Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, coming next April.
The book, whose title
ALBUM REVIEW: As Twain, Mat Davidson Takes Stock on ‘Noon’
It’s easy to imagine Mat Davidson (the man behind Twain) as an itinerant philosopher who writes music instead of essays, soft examinations of being instead of arguments about what’s true. His songs ripple with a quiet search for and appreciation of meaning, though they never offer answers. It
ALBUM REVIEW: Alex Williams Reckons With His Work in Progress on ‘Waging Peace’
Alex Williams’ debut, Better Than Myself, was one of the best albums of 2017. The Indiana native had the voice, the sound, the swagger, and — most important — the songs to come across as a legitimate modern-day outlaw.
As it turned out, Williams was living too closely to the lyrics of
THE READING ROOM: Linda Ronstadt Shares Life Story in a Desert Landscape
In her 2013 autobiography Simple Dreams, Linda Ronstadt shares her life as a key part of the Southern California country rock scene of the late ’60s and early 1970s. Her voice soars in those pages much as it does on albums such as Don’t Cry Now, Hasten Down the
THE LONG HAUL: Little Known Secrets of Cracker Barrel
There is something really wonderful about the reliability of a chain restaurant while touring. Don’t get me wrong, I love hitting the local spots and checking out the independent coffee shops, but when you’re on a long stretch of highway with no towns in sight, the best you