Richmond Fontaine: In Their Own Words - A Reminder Of What We're Missing.
In his novel The End Of The Affair, Graham Greene held that “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”
In 2016 Willy Vlautin announced the end of the chapter for Richmond Fontaine.
Jeff Mix & the Songhearts Explore the Stories of the Lost Vegas Hiway
On a stretch of well-worn east-bound highway that lies between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, you might hear a lonely guitar moan way off in the distance You may witness the streak of a shooting star in an otherwise dark night out of the corner of your eye. It’s
Old Man Sings the Blues
Darling Corey's everything you want in a folk song: an interesting story, a sing-along chorus and a moral. Like Sophocles or Faulkner, the disaster is coming, irrespective of all efforts. Our shortcomings will be our ruin. But in the meantime, let's wallow in the tale and
'Don’t Skip Out On Me' by Willy Vlautin: "The Book Just Felt Like Music."
Seems the fat lady hadn’t sung after all. 2016 brought down the final curtain on Richmond Fontaine after two decades, 11 albums, unremitted touring, minimal staff changes, and an international fan base that grew unswervingly in number and devotion over both those decades. Theirs was a special kind of
Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music at 66
Several months ago when I transitioned from an owner of music to a renter via streaming, the first selection I imported into my cloud-based digital library was a collection of folk music I first heard when I was just a little sprout. I was introduced to Harry Smith's
Murdering the Murder Ballad: Misogyny in Country Music
[Content warning: general discussions of sexual assault and violence. There is a brief description of a personal experience at the beginning of the third section. I’ll put another reminder at that point in the article.]
I. Imagine me, an awkward red-headed twelve-year old, singing this at the top of