Tedeschi Trucks' Gospel Soul
They call it Swamp Raga. Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi came up with that name for their home recording studio in Jacksonville, Florida, but it's a fitting label for their sound as well. Bolstered by analog technology, tube amps, and vintage recording gear, the Tedeschi Trucks Band has
How the Sausage Gets Made on "The Boudin Barndance"
Hiding out in the upper right corner of the states, in Rhode Island, we have "Boudin" Dan Ferguson, whose philosophy and "work" ethic I greatly appreciate.
Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio? What other stations have you worked at, and what were
Collisionville: A Bay Area Band with Alabama Roots Confronts the Ghost of Hank Williams
I said to Hank Williams: "How lonely does it get?"
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
Oh, a hundred floors above me in the Tower of Song
Leonard Cohen, “Tower of Song”
If, as Leonard Cohen writes, Hank Williams
Relatively Easy for Jason Isbell
London roots music fans could be forgiven for cursing the calendar gods last night; this early in the year, who would have foreseen simultaneous visits to this shore from Lucinda Williams, The Milk Carton Kids and Jason Isbell, not forgetting Isbell's notably up-and-coming guest, John Moreland?
Ex-Eagles Guitarist Don Felder and The Passing of Glenn Frey
Upon hearing of Glenn Frey's passing this afternoon, my thoughts turned almost immediately to Don Felder, the great guitarist whose signature lines helped shape and define much of The Eagles' music from 1974 to 2001.
Felder was summarily dismissed from The Eagles in 2001 in the midst
Glenn Frey: Already Gone
I stopped listening to the Eagles, one of my favorite bands in the early and mid-70s, when Hotel California came out. Maybe it was the loss of Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner and the addition of Joe Walsh—whom I had seen in the early '70s when he