THROUGH THE LENS: Buddy and Julie Miller's Album Release Show at City Winery Nashville
"This is the beginning and end of our world tour."
— Buddy Miller
Julie Miller had not performed in public for 15-plus years before this show — a show that sold out within hours of being announced. Rolling Stone said it was the pair's first public performance since
SPOTLIGHT: As Tui, Jake Blount and Libby Weitnauer Showcase the Diversity in Stringband Music’s Story
In July 2013, George Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. It threw Jake Blount into crisis.
Blount, like Martin, was a teenager at the time. And Blount, like Martin, is African American. Growing up in the ‘90s and ‘00s, Blount had always figured that racism on
SPOTLIGHT: Meet Buddy and Julie Miller’s Furry Friends
So much of the magic Buddy and Julie Miller make emanates from their charming Nashville home. Their latest album, Breakdown on 20th Ave. South, was recorded in their bedroom there, and Buddy’s downstairs studio (which you can tour here with Aaron Lee Tasjan!) has recorded many albums we know
Griffin House Explores Music and Life Business on ‘Rising Star’
On his latest release from Evening Records, Griffin House seems to have realized his potential to produce new combinations, new adaptations, and truly new developments. Indeed, Rising Star is at the heart of an artist who is fully comfortable applying his talents.
House's self-proclaimed “slow rise” is chronicled
A Lifetime of Connecting Helps Lizz Wright ‘Speak to the Now’
Music is more than a jingle, more than a product. To committed composers, players, singers, and listeners, it’s an essential form of transmission for genuine feeling and ideas to the human spirit. For Lizz Wright, a magnificent vocalist whose rich baritone manages to hit the frequency of the beating
THROUGH THE LENS: Rosanne Cash and Ry Cooder – The Songs of Johnny Cash
It was billed as "Cash & Cooder on Cash: The Songs of Johnny Cash." A short five-city tour, two now, the other three in this fall. I caught the first one at Ryman Auditorium, and fellow ND writer Henry Carrigan went two nights later in Chicago. (See the