Bob Woodruff's Long Road Back
I'm gonna take this burning heart and stick it in the ground
Put me out of your misery where I almost drowned
I was on fire – I needed you – the year we tried to kill the pain
Bob Woodruff – "The Year We Tried to Kill the Pain&
Dear Terry, You Were Right About Jason Isbell
Dear Terry,
I know you remember that night some years back when we swapped songs up on the mountain after a grandtastic bike ride. I played "Officer Down" by N.Q. Arbuckle of Toronto and your perspicacious ears picked up on the line, "It's hard
Semi-Twangin' with Paul Hefti
This week, our featured broadcaster is from the central valley of California -- Sacramento, to be exact. Like other DJs I've featured recently, Paul Hefti and I have never met, but after reading about his taste in music and influences, I'm sure we could talk for
William Wild Holds Steady Now
If Dan Fogelberg, Neil Young, and Harry Chapin put their musical genes together to create a musician in their image, they would have come up with Garrett Sale. Like his creators, his songs weave to together a straight-ahead purity of heart tangled up by loss, despair, hope, and love, telling
Dream a Highway: A Grand Finale for Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings in Australia
This was the last night on tour in Australia for Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, the culmination of 4,500 road miles and 14 shows.
The caravan began in Perth as An Evening with Gillian Welch, rolling across the Nullabor Desert to Adelaide, on to Melbourne and up the East
Quebec-born Afro-Caribbean Lady Shines With An Eclectic Bluegrass Banjo
Some young artists lately are quietly impressing me with their interpretative powers, their sharpened talent and meticulous creativity. Of course, the majority of the Top 50 music we hear today be it country, pop, rock, hop-hop or rap is music produced by young people who are in tune only with