John Moreland - "Nobody Gives A Damn About Songs Anymore"
I don’t watch a lot of television; when I do it’s mostly the news. A busy family life plus a lot of time away on the road certainly puts a kink in being able to keep up with a series-based drama, so I’ve missed most of the
Gay Traditions: Texas Songwriter Emily Herring's Honky Tonk Pathways
Texas songwriter
Emily Herring
's new album,
Your Mistake
, came over my desk about a month ago and I fell for her ice-cold honky-tonk songwriting almost immediately. She sings with such confidence, and nails hard-lived country songwriting like nobody's business. And she gets the culture of Texas
The Handsome Family ... On woodpeckers, crows, darkness, philosophy and Leonard Cohen
The Handsome Family talk to Alan J Taylor in steel town (Sheffield, UK.)
After over twenty years together, husband and wife duo, Brett and Rennie Sparks are still bouncing off each other like a pin ball game. I caught up with ‘The Handsome Family’ on a dark rainy night in
Sturgill Simpson's High Top Mountain
Somewhere in Honky Tonk Heaven, the great voices gather in the green room, taking their turns on the stage. They say they play for a split of the tip jar, but money is like manna here and the drinks are free. Even the water tastes like cherry wine. No need
Howard Rains and "The Old Texas Fiddle"- preserving Texas Americana Fiddle Music
When I hear the word “Texas”, I immediately think of “big” or “oil”, or “Longhorns” or “Lone star”, or “rich”. When I hear “Texas fiddle”, Texas dance music or “Swing” comes to mind, like the twin and triple fiddles of the Texas Playboys with Bob Wills calling out behind the
Johnny Rivers - Realization (Revisited)
During some Spring cleaning I encountered a stack of discs that hadn’t been on my radar for a few years, and this one was one of them. It’s not a new reissue, as a matter of fact it’s a pricey out of print disc. I’m no