Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris, and Lucinda Williams Live at the Country Music Hall of Fame
It was a night not to be missed. While Rosanne Cash has long been friends with both Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris and has appeared with each of them, the three had never been together on the same stage before. So, Cash took the opportunity to rectify that on the
50 Years after Fincastle, the Story of Bluegrass Continues
This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the first multi-day bluegrass festival, held at Cantrell's horse farm in Fincastle, Virginia, on Labor Day weekend of 1965. For three days, bluegrass fans traipsed down from New York City, Washington, D.C., Buffalo, New York, Kentucky, further west and
D'Angelo's Black Messiah: Politics & Nihilism
Reviewers have compared D’Angelo’s Black Messiah to Sly & the Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Going On; to me, Sly’s project is way more groove-heavy, driving, direct, while D’Angelo seems to be working with what I’d call the anti-hook (a few
Plainsong - Reinventing Richard: The Songs of Richard Farina
We are celebrating many 50th anniversaries this year, and rightly so as 1965 was a momentous year in popular and folk music. But I would be remiss if I did not write some kind words for one of the significant figures of that decade and one of my idols in
Gregg Allman - Live: Back to Macon GA
“Macon serves as the home of a great group of fellows that played and lived laughed and cried and created and worked out and arranged and adjusted things together for 45 years now,” Gregg Allman says, introducing his latest, Gregg Allman Live, Back to Macon, Ga. Macon's Grand
Roaring Down Thunder Road: Darlin', You Know Just What I'm Here For
I took a road trip with “Born to Run” yesterday. It’s the 40th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen's groundbreaking album, and there’s no better way to experience it than by blasting it in your car, with the windows open and the wind blowing back your hair. Cars