Artist Manager and Radio Promo Guy Brad Hunt is "Livin' The Life"
I've known Brad Hunt for many years and he always seems happy and usually has an amusing story to share. I always remember and love that he accepted an Americana Music Award for Sonny Landreth, walking to the podium in a T-shirt and shorts. That's
Ron Brice Jumps Through Time at 3rd and Lindsley
Almost every Monday night, The Time Jumpers fill the hall to overflowing at Nashville's 3rd and Lindsley, but the next night you're just as likely to find Gary Clark, Jr., electrifying the crowd with his stinging blues guitar or the McCrary Sisters raising the roof with
The Mysterious Case of Gainesville, Florida
These days the University of Florida may be best known for its powerhouse football teams, with quarterbacks like Tim Tebow taking the spotlight both on the field and off. The town of Gainesville, once smack on the tourist trail of US 441 (where outside of town you could guzzle fresh
Nick Holmes - The Just Sunshine Years
Music has a way of recycling itself--- the good music does, anyway--- and it is no surprise to me that Nick Holmes, formerly of White Elephant, has re-entered my conscious life. He has never been out of it, actually, because the White Elephant album and his succeeding solo effort
Centro-Matic: A Fond Farewell to One of the Best Rock Bands in History
This article was originally published in a now defunct magazine back in 2014, but I feel it no better time to celebrate the band I still love with every inch of my heart and soul than the day before Independence Day, 2016. It's time this piece had a
The Steel Wheels & Blue Ridge Mountains Host the Richest Red Wing Roots Music Festival Yet
Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley are fortunate to have Trent Wagler and The Steel Wheels band, not to mention Eastern Mennonite University that initially brought the band members here as students, not to mention the influence on the band of Doc Watson as a musician and someone