Steam Punk Fred Eaglesmith
Even though I wasn't yet familiar with Fred Eaglesmith, I am extremely glad I made it to this show, because this was a night of fabulous music that left me smiling until I went to work the following morning.
Currently touring as the Fred Eaglesmith Traveling Steam Show,
A New "Stupid Heart" Brings out the Best in Shawn Mullins
On the gray March days between winter and spring, Shawn Mullins recorded My Stupid Heart in the Tennessee foothills outside of Nashville. His first album in five years is a new beginning for the Georgia singer-songwriter who is singing with a voice that is stronger without cigarettes, writing from a
The Unsettling World of Dillard Chandler
"Stark" doesn’t even begin to describe the singing of Appalachian balladeer Dillard Chandler. "Otherworldly" might be a better descriptor. His singing sounds outside of our modern reality, so deeply rooted in the past that it’s almost exotic. Folk revival icon John Cohen certainly felt
Bob Dylan, "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" (Take 1)
“Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window” is one of my favorite Dylan songs, with its tumbling wild rhymes and the intense, excited, almost-shouted challenges. It’s a song that never found a home on an album in 1965 or 1966, but works as a bridge – or maybe an escape
'Knuckleball Prime' by Willie Tea Taylor
With his debut solo album, 4 Strings, folk singer-songwriter Willy Tea Taylor showed that he has a remarkable ability to translate life's experiences into song in such way that they resonate in the hearts and minds of listeners all over. He has achieved this yet again, and more,
Tin Pan Transformation
Sunday night. I experienced the little epiphanies that music can give to a weary heart. After logging a 65-hour work week. I was moving in a fog of physical fatigue and emotional exhaustion. I needed a song to call out to my heart and pull it back from the brink