Tom Russell's Tonight We Ride and Midway to Bayamon
Tom Russell is so prolific that it’s hard to keep up: I have about two dozen of his albums, and I’m still missing a few. This pair of 2014 releases almost slipped by me.
Tonight We Ride, subtitled “The Tom Russell Cowboy Anthology,” is an updated version of
My Mom and Glen Campbell
Music was important to my mom. She and her first husband, my second father, were square dancers; I recall falling asleep to the rhythm of the caller and the sounds of fiddle and guitar while grown-ups navigated a wooden dance floor in more than one County of Parkland community hall.
Two of a Traveling Kind: Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell's Musical Kinship
During a performance in Chicago last month, Emmylou Harris told Rodney Crowell that he was starting a song in the wrong key. He glided into his response: “She remembers the keys, but I remember all the words.” Indeed, after 40 years of friendship and collaboration, Harris and Crowell have grown
At Home in Liverpool with Hank Snow
Liverpool graces the banks of a freezing cold River Mersey, just a few miles from Brooklyn. This beautiful area marks the home of a celebrated musician, whose birthplace museum is, most appropriately, in the former railway station.
Before you are further confused, let me say I speak of Liverpool and
"Welcome to Our Love Fest": Remembering Ben Bullington
The mood was festive in the lobby of the Ellen Theater in downtown Bozeman on June 5, as fans and friends gathered to celebrate the life of the late Ben Bullington -- a doctor, singer-songwriter, and performer who touched the lives of many in Montana and beyond.
“Ben is here,
Them Dam' Haynes Boys
The self-titled and only album by the Columbus, Ohio band Haynes Boys does not sound like it is almost 20 years old. Perhaps it is because great music is always timeless, or maybe there is something more. The hard-driving roots rock music it features is just as prevalent and relevant