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
SPOTLIGHT: Come Along as Buddy Miller Shows Aaron Lee Tasjan around His Home Studio
While Buddy and Julie Miller recorded their new album, Breakdown on 20th Ave. South, in their bedroom, the studio in the downstairs of their Nashville home has been the site of countless fantastic recordings, including some from Robert Plant, Emmylou Harris, The War and Treaty, and Solomon Burke.
Recently, Buddy
Silver Linings Weave through Fruit Bats’ ‘Gold Past Life’
Eric D. Johnson describes the process of creating the music for Gold Past Life as “a soothing balm,” which is exactly what it’s like to listen to it. With his first album under the Fruit Bats moniker since 2016’s Absolute Loser, Johnson reminds us of his superhuman ability