“Leading the Charge”: A Conversation with Joe Bonamassa By Brian D’Ambrosio From Beale Street in Memphis to the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, there is an excess of worthy landmarks and destinations dotting the blues lover’s atlas. New Hartford, a small town of about 20,000 people in Central New York, might be one of the […]
The Sustained and Passionate Verve of David RamirezBy Brian D’Ambrosio Pangs of intense honesty and instinct set David Ramirez in motion. Indeed, the Texas-bred troubadour is defined by the profoundly touching and personal quality of his songs, his reputation for candor unassailable. “Songwriting is something that I have used over the years to cope with […]
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Emily Scott Robinson interview Learning Music the Honest Way: A Life of Emily Scott Robinson The competence and pull of Colorado singer-songwriter Emily Scott Robinson shines considerable in perhaps her most tempting song, “Things You’ve Learned The Hard Way,” a merger of both personal and collected maxims. Some of the short, pithy statements are directly […]
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Josh Ritter interview & photos by Brian D’Ambrosio High Moments: Josh Ritter’s Rousing Outlook “Peak experiences” is what Abraham Maslow called them. The high moments of life where we joyfully find ourselves catapulted beyond the confines of the mundane and ordinary.Josh Ritter’s peak experiences exude every time he performs on the stage. No energy shortage […]
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Waiting For It To Feel Good: The Songwriting of Sera Cahoone For many years Sera Cahoone has purveyed a mode of songwriting vulnerably subdued, her vocals a scope of tender suppleness. Her distinguishing contribution is in the understated, hushed temperament of her art. Her path to music, however, has much rowdier origins, the fancies of […]
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Missoula songwriter addresses father’s death in new material Ro Myra lost her father to illness in January 2021. Their attachment was especially well-knotted and much time had elapsed before the Missoula singer-songwriter could convert sorrow into reflection and contemplation into composition. These past several months, she’s leaned heavily on her creativity as a channel and […]
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Portland Indie Rocker MAITA Makes Right Musical Moves Maria Maita-Keppeler, aka MAITA, started penning songs in earnest when she was a high schooler in Eugene, Oregon. As a college student in Portland, she took to playing solo, devouring open mic opportunities on campus and at coffee houses, and later charging into the bar scene. She […]
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Allie Crow Buckley: Songwriter steeped in West Coast mythosBy Brian D’Ambrosio Like the ocean is fed by rivers and streams, most of singer-songwriter Allie Crow Buckley’s creations are born of stream of consciousness. “A lot of my songs are written stream of consciousness and there are very little chords,” said Buckley. “The songs are very […]
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