Goodnight Texas - Uncle John Farquhar
The San Francisco-based quartet Goodnight Texas have taken the idea of “retro music” a quantum leap further. Their sophomore album Uncle John Farquhar, released in August of 2014, is set up as a scrapbook of tales from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.
The album's 13 songs are
Sunny Sweeney: You Had to Go and Prove Yourself
Sunny Sweeney is grinning, leaning across the conference table at her publicist’s Music Row office to display an image on her phone. She’s pulled up her website and navigated to a particular T-shirt she sells as merch. “There it is,” she declares. The photo shows a black tee
To Live Is to Fly - Remembering Townes Van Zandt
Days, up and down they come
Like rain on a conga drum
Forget most, remember some
But don’t turn none away
Everything is not enough
Nothing is too much to bear
Where you been is good and gone
All you keep is the getting there
To live is to
Jeff Buckley's Influences and Inspirations
The year 2014 marked the 17th anniversary of Jeff Buckley’s passing, the 20th anniversary of the release of Grace (his only fully realized studio album), and this November 17th brings what would’ve been his 48th birthday.
For the most recent anniversary of Jeff’s untimely death, I wrote
Joe Fletcher - You've Got the Wrong Man
As a 31-year-old woman whose favorite musicians, for the most part, stem from her grandmother's generation, it is a rare occurrence to have an “I was there” story. But, about five years ago, I came across a YouTube video of Deer Tick at a tiny club in Providence,
Mother Country: Dave Crossland Shines a Light on John Stewart
Before the singer-songwriter movement took shape in the early '70s, before James Taylor made his way through “Fire and Rain” on his breakout Sweet Baby James album; before Carole King wove her Tapestry album into a bestselling classic, there was California Bloodlines. In 1969, former Kingston Trio member John