Gregory Alan Isakov: The Passenger, The Land, And The Ritual
Singer-song writer Gregory Alan Isakov was in Belfast last December when I spoke with him in a room, within a warren of rooms, way back stage at the Waterfront Hall.
He had been supporting Passenger on a European tour for the previous two and half months, and this support slot
Peter Cooper on Johnny's Cash and Charley's Pride
Peter Cooper, the Senior Director, Producer, and Writer at the Country Music Hall of Fame, hits home runs every time he steps up to the plate. When he was covering music for the Tennessean, you could count on Cooper to deliver humorous, perceptive tales of country musicians and their foibles.
Groundhog Day Experiment #1: Hickory Wind
I was thumbing through the recent issue of New York magazine when I saw that they've made a Broadway musical from the 1994 film Groundhog Day. You know the story: Bill Murray plays Phil Connors, who goes to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to report on the annual de-hibernation of the
Keep It Goin': Levon Helm's Midnight Rambles
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Rambling at midnight goes back many centuries and encompasses, to put it mildly, a
Routes to Roots II: Wayne and Kristin Scott Benson
Performing in a major bluegrass band is a grueling business. In order to subsist as a bluegrass musician, a player is often on the road from Thursday through Sunday, frequently appearing at three different events placed hundreds or even thousands of miles apart. Typically, at a bluegrass festival, a band
Singer-songwriter Passenger finds increasing audience with songs of hope and empathy
As a lawyer, as a teacher, and perhaps most importantly, as a mother, I have a pretty good sense of when people are telling me the truth and when they’re being other than their authentic selves. Perhaps that is why I have turned down opportunities from time to time