Review of Willie Sugarcapps - "Willie Sugarcapps"
Take five talented, experienced musicians/songwriters/singers coming from the same area, let them play together and see what it turns out. Things like these probably happen almost every day and aren't often worth much attention, unless we're talking about Will Kimbrough, Grayson Capps, Corky Hughes,
Amanda Shires Drips Passion From her Phrases on "Down Fell The Doves"
I am a music junkie. Yes, I admit that I have an addiction. I have an appetite for new music and cannot get enough of it. So when I go to Nashville, it is the mother lode of Americana records and compact discs from artists that are hard to come
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Linda Ronstadt
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I've never seen her in person. Unlike other musical acts I've been anywhere from interested in to borderline obsessed with over the years—Carly Simon, Emmylou Harris, Judy Collins, Iris Dement, Peter, Paul and Mary, even Bruce Springsteen (whom I feel lucky have seen once
Rock for the Ages--The Band Live at the Academy of Music 1971
On Thanksgiving Day in 1976, The Band, spent from years on the road and by then from internal disagreements about musical directions, mustered their considerable musicianship, as well as their huge coterie of musical friends and devoted fans, and came together for one last show, a dance of the spirit
Bluegrass inventor Bill Monroe (Sept. 13, 1911-Sept. 9, 1996) Springs a Surprise
I interviewed Bill Monroe -- born 102 years ago today -- between his sets at Summerfest in 1981 for The Milwaukee Journal. He is credited for inventing bluegrass in 1939 when his Bluegrass Boys auditioned at the Grand Old Opry and caused a high, lonesome stir that has never quite
Jason Molina & The Spineriders' "Hello Future Tinglies"
Jason Molina was from Lorain, Ohio. He became well known performing and recording as Songs: Ohia, as a solo artist and with a revolving cast of musicians. Beginning in 2003, he recorded either under his own name or with a stable line-up of band members as the Magnolia Electric Company.