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Features from your favorite artists! Including interviews, essays, long-form, short-form, and more.

Seven Basic Plots to a Country Song

Seven Basic Plots to a Country Song

Anyone who has been a writer of fiction for any length of time has probably heard the theory that there are only seven basic plots and all stories are derived from them. They are: Man vs. Man Man vs. The environment Man vs. Machines/Technology Man vs. The supernatural Man

Patty Griffin, Melissa Etheridge, & the Meaning of Music

Concert Review: The Dance of The Buffalo Springfield in Santa Barbara, Ca.

Concert Review: The Dance of The Buffalo Springfield in Santa Barbara, Ca.

Telluride Bluegrass Festival 101: The Tarp

Telluride Bluegrass Festival 101: The Tarp

John Prine: A Songwriter Deserving of a Shrine

John Prine: A Songwriter Deserving of a Shrine

HBO's Treme - The Character of Music

HBO's Treme - The Character of Music

What's it like? - a new conversation with Lukas Nelson

What's it like? - a new conversation with Lukas Nelson