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 hours
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,
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
A Night Inside the Mind of Bob Schneider
If you’ve ever wondered how it would be to exist for a time in a collage – or better yet in the mind of the artist who created that collage – then go see a Bob Schneider show. It’s the closest thing to a musical out-of-body experience.
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“Magic Against Death”: Mississippi's Water Liars
In the spring of 2012, my life very much in transition, I found myself eagerly anticipating the debut release of Water Liars, a band I knew very little about. I knew of drummer Andrew Bryant—that's probably what made me take notice. I'd met him briefly