Kris Kristofferson - Broken Freedom Song
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
Broken Freedom Song
Oh Boy
This collection of fifteen songs, four of them new, was recorded in front of a live audience at the Gershwin Theater in San Francisco in July 2002, well before the war in Iraq, but Kris Kristofferson's song selection was eerily prescient.
Todd Steed - Sphere of influence
Todd Steed can remember the first song he ever wrote about Knoxville. He was in a punk band in the early 1980s called the Real Hostages: "We would write about the local radio station, and how we hated it," he says.
It was the beginning of a music
Courtney Lee Adams Jr. - Western to East Village
Onstage at the Lakeside Lounge, at the last in a series of shows marking the release of her long-awaited debut album, Courtney Lee Adams Jr. is pissed.
"I've got my bitch on tonight!" she promises the audience. She tosses in rants about a bad cab
Joe Callicott - Ain't A Gonna Lie To You
In 1929, Mississippi's Joe Callicott made a trip to Memphis with his friend Garfield Akers to record for Vocalion. Callicott's solo recordings never saw the light of day; only "Cottonfield Blues (Parts 1 And 2)", with Callicott backing Akers, was released. A year later,
Various Artists - Kentucky Mountain Music: Classic Recordings Of The 1920s & 1930s
Kentucky has long held a special allure for folk song scholars, collectors of hillbilly 78s, revivalists and other aficionados of old-time music. It's a near-mythical place in the minds of these folks, a place where fact and legend often overlap. It's a plain fact,
Otis Taylor - Truth Is Not Fiction
Winner of the distinguished W.C. Handy Best New Artist blues award in 2002, Otis Taylor certainly deserved the recognition, though he was hardly new. A seasoned bluesman whose career dates back to the 1960s, Taylor became discouraged with the business and gave it up for antiquing in the late