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
Mythology and Music
Did you know Bob Dylan was never born? Somewhere up in the North Country he just walked in one day out of the cold. They say down in Montgomery, on nights like these when the moon is full and bright, and the heavy, breathless air contains that unmistakable aftertaste of
The Things That We Are Made Of revisited: Mary-Chapin Carpenter's 21st Century masterpiece
This album has been out a couple of months. It has already been reviewed here in ND although I'd say it’s a review that can best be characterised as damning with faint praise. I think it's a record that deserves a whole lot better.
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Who's the Bluegrass Audience?
When you attend a bluegrass event, whether it's a concert, festival, or local picking party, you never know who you might meet. Most people don't care who you are or what you do for a living. What they do care about is that you love the