Strung Like a Horse – 'Crazy Like Me'
Strung Like a Horse releases their first official video, “Crazy Like Me,” from their debut studio album, WHOA!, produced by renowned Grammy-winner Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, John Prine, Margo Price). The record this month debuted at #2 on the Amazon Alt-Country/Americana chart, #2 on the Billboard Bluegrass Albums chart,
Dave Alvin Looks Back Across Time, Genres, and Instruments on ‘From an Old Guitar’
It ain’t easy to drop a lasso around Dave Alvin’s neck and rope him into a musical corral. Since 1979, Alvin’s been a rockin’ county-western folkie soulful bluesblaster, first with brother Phil and then on his own. Alvin was the chief songwriter for the brotherly Blasters and
THE READING ROOM: Chris Hillman on Surviving Fires Real and Metaphorical
Chris Hillman’s refreshingly candid new memoir, Time Between: My Life as a Byrd, Burrito Brother, and Beyond (BMG), opens with an eerily apocalyptic scene on the night of Hillman’s 73rd birthday on Dec. 4, 2017. Around 11 p.m., his wife, Connie, woke up to the smell of
Ani DiFranco on ‘Revolutionary Love’ and Tending to Wounds
EDITOR’S NOTE: Singer-songwriter and activist Ani DiFranco’s new album, Revolutionary Love, is scheduled for release on Jan. 29, 2021. The title track from it is out today. Listen below and read about what the title and the concept behind it mean to DiFranco and can mean for all
THROUGH THE LENS: The Show Goes On for Lucinda Williams and Patty Griffin — Online
I know we all miss live shows, and that collective energy, the camaraderie, the excitement, that connection between artist and audience that simply cannot duplicated either on record or video. However, until the beast of the coronavirus can be tamed, streaming live shows serves as the methadone to our addiction.
'A Timely Windfall’: The Story Behind Gillian Welch’s ‘Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs’
One kind of whirlwind was responsible for most of Gillian Welch’s 2020 collection of demos, Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, but it took another to bring the songs out of storage nearly two decades after their creation.
The three-volume collection, whose latest installment was released last Friday, contains