‘East Nashville Skyline’ and a New View of Possibility
EDITOR'S NOTE: As Todd Snider’s landmark East Nashville Skyline album (2004) gets its first vinyl release today, singer-songwriter Korby Lenker shares what the album meant — and still means — to him.
Setting: Austin, SXSW, maybe 2005. Saturday afternoon. I was 28 or 29.
I'd been playing
THROUGH THE LENS: The Women Who Are Taking Back Country Music
“What I love the most are sad songs. My heart was broken and, I dunno, I guess when my heart breaks, pedal steel comes out.”
So said Karen Pittelman (Karen & the Sorrows) in a 2017 Bluegrass Situation article exploring the assumptions behind who owns country music and who’s
The Good Ones Share Their Rwanda With The World
In this hellacious year of our lord, it seems like we mortals are living and reliving humanity’s worst moments on earth with nauseating frequency. Among the already tired political, social, and environmental tropes rotating through an endless news cycle, 2019 also marks 25 years since the Rwandan genocide — a
EASY ED’S BROADSIDE: John Moreland, An Appreciation and Anticipation
In addition to writing this weekly column, I also aggregate flotsam and jetsam from multiple sources that I post throughout each day on a Facebook page as a non-commercial service to share with fans of Americana and roots music. Some people like to collect coins or stamps, follow a sports
SPOTLIGHT: Thirty Years into The Mavericks, ‘We Have a Lot to Do Still’
There’s a certain kind of self-awareness that arises when you’ve worked in the same career for 30 years. For some, it may consist of near-perfect understanding of their particular vocation. For others, it may produce a deeper love for something outside of work. For Raul Malo, frontman and
Robert Hecht Makes Solo Debut as Bobby Hawk
Bobby Hawk’s first solo album Lights On Kinks Out is one of those releases that requires a few listens. After my first run-through, I thought “meh.” The second left me a bit more positive. When I heard it for the third time, I thought “This isn’t half bad”