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Back in January, Steve Earle and Willie Nile had to cancel their City Winery show because of our awful New York winter weather.  It's April now, though still too cold for me, and the gentlemen reconvened with us for a warm, glad evening right after Easter. Willie Nile

In 2006, I was in the first year of my road-dogging, still fresh-faced, energetic, and full of my signature hopeful positivity. I had made a record with my dear friend Jim Brunberg, the owner of Mississippi Studios in Portland, who’s also a member of the band Box

Though many music fans still do not recognize his name, Chris Hillman has had a monumental impact on American music and may have one of the most impressive resumes of any contemporary musician. He’s probably most famous for being a founder of the legendary Byrds in 1964, with Roger

I'm focusing on Lester Bangs this week – one of our most trenchant, edgiest, provocative, often beguiling, cantankerous, unreasonable, off-kilter, and sometimes dead-wrong critics. Yet, rock writing and criticism died with Lester Bangs when he died in 1982. Look around you these days. When you go into

“I believe I did not achieve major success partly because I think I subconsciously did not want to make it.” -----Steve Young A Preface: I was sitting on my bunk in an Army barracks one cold January day in 1970 when a friend, Robert Hall, who had just returned from

Once upon a time, around the middle of the 20th century, there was music in the mountains that run from Georgia up through the Carolinas, into Kentucky and beyond – a high and lonesome sound that reflected the lives of hard-working people who had to be strong to survive. It