Hiss Golden Messenger Finds Salvation in ‘Terms of Surrender’
Ahead of the release of Terms of Surrender, Hiss Golden Messenger’s seventh studio album, bandleader M.C. Taylor wrote a letter to fans. In a little over 700 words, Taylor lamented the reality in which he had been living, a reality that led him to admit he often felt
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE: A Call to Account
Every big city is the same to me. There is an abundance of concrete, lots of traffic, tourist attractions, and the ability to get anything you want at all hours of the day. Moscow has all of that plus faster and louder motorcycles, and more cafes, clubs, museums, and millionaires
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