Danny Paisley: Who Says the Soul is Gone?
This year's IBMA Awards Show in Raleigh, North Carolina, appears to have been a transitional one in which younger bands like Flatt Lonesome emerged for major awards. It was also a year in which a Flatt & Scruggs cover band, The Earls of Leicester, received the Entertainer of
Look Homeward Angel: The Life and Music of Steve Young
When singer-songwriter Steve Young died in hospice care in Nashville on March 17 earlier this year, his son, Jubal Lee Young, issued a note of grace: “My father, Steve Young, passed peacefully tonight in Nashville. While it is a sad occasion, he was also the last person who could be
The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Music Festival 2016 in San Francisco
When Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival began in 2001, at the urging of fellow West Virginia native Hazel Dickens, it was called Strictly Bluegrass. But, in 2004, in order to reflect the wider changes in roots music, the word "Hardly" was added. That broadening takes on an added resonance
Tedeschi Trucks: They're an American Band
An Appreciation of Six Nights at New York’s Beacon Theater, Sept. 30th - Oct. 8th, 2016
Hey, friends! The degenerative state of our American political discourse got you down? Feeling sort of humiliated in the eyes of the world? Worried that we may descend any moment into civil war?
Adam Carroll Should Be Famous
Here’s a look at the latest crop of albums I find noteworthy, including several from artists you’ve probably never heard of.
Various artists, Highway Prayer, A Tribute to Adam Carroll. Most tribute albums tip a hat to a widely acclaimed veteran performer but this one argues that a
Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate
In the wake of the — to me — superb and delightful news of Bob Dylan receiving the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature this week, there has been, to quote a phrase from Dylan's fellow Minnesota wordsmith F. Scott Fitzgerald, some foul dust floating in that wake. Writers, and non-writers,