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KAREN DALTON – THE GENIUS OF FEELING by Frank Carney Nicholas Hill is a man we should be doubly grateful to. He is the hero in the rediscovery of a great lost singer, and in the process helped inspire a notable contemporary country performer. In the early 1980s he became interested

If You Can't Be Good (Be Lucky) Radney Foster This is a great tune to start off the show. Sure, it isn?t exactly about bad luck but it sure sets the tone! "Radney Foster is one of the most talented singer/songwriters of our time. His

The EP collaboration between the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Luminescent Orchestrii (also featuring beatbox artist, Adam Matta) is easily the best acoustic-hip-hop-stringband-Romanian-gypsy-fiddle-old-time hybrid you’re likely to hear this year. Actually, despite its novelty, this album is probably one of the best releases in any genre you’re likely to

Those of you who find yourselves in or around St. Louis, Missouri on the second Friday of any given month may want to check out local band Colonel Ford at The Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood. For most of us, the thought of hearing great hillbilly music in a microbrewery would

Though we've all accepted it as the standard description of American culture for over 200 years, I'm starting to think that the melting pot metaphor falls far short of the reality here.  It assumes that assimilation is the ideal, that we somehow want to create this

The calling It's coming up to a year since I pitched Portrait of Lincoln With the Wart, a radio documentary on the evolution of Americana as a musical term and, ultimately, a musical ethos.  The idea came after my sister took me to a Lucinda Williams concert in