2011 Americana Music Association Award Nominees
As luck would have it, I'm in New York City this week for a number of reasons. But, today, it just so happened that the Americana Music Association was holding an event at the Gibson Showroom uptown, just west of the south end of Central Park, to announce
Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman's Union Town EP - By Workers FOR Workers
Few people inspire me in such a profound way as my good friend, The Nightwatchman - the alter ego of guitar hero, Tom Morello. That's not because he's a big rock star or even that he does rip that guitar apart every time he picks one
Review: Levon Helm - Ramble at the Ryman
By Nick DeRiso
We're reminded again on Ramble at the Ryman, a record both timeless and new, that Levon Helm was the loamy voiced, rail-jumping rhythmic center point of the Band, the yearning storyteller and gritty soul. Their records were drawn from continuity, bringing in dizzyingly diverse, age-old
Concert Review: Jackson Browne - May 17, 2011, Jackson, Mississippi
It was a little like sitting in your living room listening to an old friend play music. He finishes a song, you make a request. Can you do this one? Okay. What about this one? Fine. That one? No, can't do it, need a band. But I can
Butch Hancock Still Sings in the Wind's Dominion
"But there ain't no hard proof, just this opinion
Love lives under the Wind's Dominion" - Butch Hancock
I was born in West Texas near Abilene during the winds of March in the year 1955. The wind there blows through the prairies into shallow
Crow Quill Night Owls :: Snake Liquor
Kit "Stymee" Stovepipe and his Crow Quill Night Owls are one of the northwest's best kept secrets. Everyone knows the northwest is loaded with interesting, bearded folkies, but none quite compare to Kit Stovepipe. Eugenians grew to love Kit's signature resophonic guitar and jug