Going Back to Townes Van Zandt's "Proud Mountains," to Anyone's Mountains
And lay me down easy where the cool rivers run/
With only my mountains ‘tween me and the sun — Townes Van Zandt, “My Proud Mountains”
A Westerly Cultural Travel Journal
I recently drove back out to Colorado, which is not my home. But something draws me back, which feels as
Duane Eddy: The Return of the King of Twang
In 2013, I attended the Americana Music Association Awards and Honors show at Ryman Auditorium. It was a memorable evening, to say the least, with some of the best Americana artists and legends on stage and in the audience.
But the moment that had the most impact on me above
Why Cover Songs?: The Inspiration, Imitation, and Imagination Behind My New EP
Why cover songs? Earlier this year, Bob Dylan said, in his now famous MusiCares speech, “Big Bill Broonzy had a song called ‘Key to the Highway’… I sang that a lot. If you sing that a lot, you just might write [’Highway 61′]. You’d have written that too if
Old World Strings : Home By Anoushka Shankar
Review by Douglas Heselgrave
Some things can’t be written about without diminishing them. Anoushka Shankar’s newest CD of Indian classical music, ‘Home’ is like that. After listening to it over and over again for the past week as Vancouver continues to suffer through a grass crunching, dust inducing
Kim Simmonds (Savoy Brown) on Eric Clapton and Jerry Lee Lewis
Names like Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck quickly come to mind when discussing the greatest British rock and blues guitarists. Few venture forth the name Kim Simmonds – a Welshman who, night after night, rips off guitar licks that Otis Rush and B.B. King would be proud to
Musicians Against Childhood Cancer: A Festival and a Cause
This is the 16th year for Musicians Against Childhood Cancer to run at Hoover-Y Park in Lochbourne, OH. In 2000, Mandy Adkins died of an aggressive brain stem tumor at the age of 19, after treatment at St. Jude Children's Reasearch Hospital in Memphis, TN. Her parents,