THROUGH THE LENS: Butterflies, Backyards, and a Busy AmericanaFest 2019
“Jason Isbell told me, ‘One thing you have to understand about about Amanda [Shires], she’s a butterfly from outer space.’”
— Brandi Carlile at the Americana Music Honors & Awards Show
While Amanda Shires was certainly the object of much admiration, she was not the only butterfly in Nashville last
Star of 'Sinematic' is Robbie Robertson in the Role of Himself
Many of The Band's songs were written with an eye toward the big screen: characters both timeless and of their time, lyrically ambitious, and cinematic in scope. It was a natural move then, when following the dissolution of The Band, Robbie Robertson spent much of his time scoring
SPOTLIGHT: Amy Speace and the Battles Within
“Someone once said to me if you want to write about the war, write about the soldier,” says singer-songwriter Amy Speace from her Nashville home. On Speace’s eighth solo album, Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne, she writes about all kinds of soldiers and therefore all kinds of wars.
Sing Us Back Together: Ken Burns’ ‘Country Music’ and What it Says about America
Ken Burns documentaries typically rely on scholars as narrators. Obviously, Burns’ crew couldn’t talk to a member of the 1908 Chicago Cubs, making the game’s historians the best sources for the 1994 series Baseball. Likewise, for a modern topic like Vietnam, experts offered some of the best insight
Inside the Making and the Movement of The Highwomen
When Newport Folk Festival's executive director Jay Sweet addressed the fans gathered at the Quad Stage at 5:35 p.m. on July 26, he said, “You're the first people anywhere to ever hear these words: 'Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome The Highwomen!'” The
Rock-bottom Reality Inhabits Paul Cauthen’s ‘Room 41’
Paul Cauthen had to learn some pretty brutal lessons in the making of his latest record Room 41, but damn if it didn’t result in what sounds like a helluva time. Cauthen has always flirted with a groovy sound, but Room 41 finds him more earnestly diving into R&