Sloane Spencer Gets Personal With "Country Fried Rock"
This week, I welcome Sloane Spencer to this column. Sloane does a different sort of radio. Her podcasts feature interviews with recording artists who tell their stories. She also seems to have pretty cool parents!
Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio, and what other stations have
Cowboy Junkies Box Set
The box set is made up of four discs that include remastered versions of the three studio albums that were released in the 2000’s Open, One Soul Now and At The End Of Paths Taken and a fourth disc, called Notes Falling Slow. This fourth disc is made up
Life Is in the Song - Chuck Cannon & Chuck McDowell
An unusually brisk and rainy late May evening wasn't enough to discourage a good crowd from venturing out to hear two excellent singer/songwriters -- both named Chuck -- offer insights and captivating stories of the songs they've crafted, and to share those songs until after midnight.
Opener
James King: Still More Stories to Tell
James King was a man with great musical talent and a voracious appetite for life. Those two things fed each other and helped him to emerge from the picker's field to become one of the most popular and beloved bluegrass singers, from his major recording debut in 1992
There’s a Tear in My Beer: Alcoholism in Country Music
If there’s one song in the booze-soaked history of country music that tells it how it is, it’s Merle Haggard’s 1966 hit, “Bottle Let Me Down.” The song describes the tragic moment when the alcoholic bottoms out and admits the booze just doesn’t work anymore.
Advice for Bluegrass Bands: Be an Effective Self-Publicist
My wife and I have been traveling to bluegrass festivals up and down the East Coast, with occasional forays into the Midwest, for about a dozen years now. As we've come to know and value increasing numbers of musicians, there's one plaint we hear with increasing