Heavy Rotation
I wish I could be a music critic or a concert photographer. I love capturing live events with a camera and think I’m pretty decent at it, but I don’t think I’d make a good critic. I know what I like, what I don’t, and even
The Grand Ole Opry: The Ryman Years
This is a tale of two historic and enduring country music institutions based in Nashville, Tennessee. The Grand Ole Opry-the longest running live radio broadcast in America and Ryman Auditorium-where the Opry called home for thirty years. Today they are still today so closely related in the public mind, they
The Other Side of Jeff Daniels
As an actor, Jeff Daniels' career has often seemed like a contradiction.
From his role as intrepid anchor Will McAvoy in HBO's The Newsroom, for which he won an Emmy, to current supporting turns as Apple CEO John Sculley in the film Steve Jobs and NASA director
Gurf Morlix Talks about "Eatin' At Me" and Much More
It might be a slight exaggeration to suggest it would be easier to name the artists Gurf Morlix has not collaborated with rather than those he has. He’s worked with Lucinda Williams, Warren Zevon, Tom Russell, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Robert Earl Keen, Ian McLagan, Buddy Miller, Julie Miller, Slaid
My First Vinyl: Seattle Old-Time String Band The Hurricane Ridgerunners
The first vinyl I bought for myself was at the wonderful, tiny record store House of Records in Eugene, Oregon. I bought it because I saw my friend Jerry Gallaher on the cover. I’d been playing music at French-Canadian jam sessions in Seattle with Jerry and loved his banjo
Bittersweet by Kasey Chambers: Beer, Music, and Place
The stereotypes swirling around Australia often have the effect of mythologizing the country while also tempting the mind to view it in offensively cartoonish terms. Negative stereotypes of Australians are unabashedly floated, and unfortunate images of overly laid-back, borderline alcoholics pervert the perspectives of those who have never been there.