Like a lot of musicians, Lara Taubman grew up surrounded by music. At some point she turned toward painting and curating art, but the music bug is a funny thing. It has a way of getting inside people and setting up camp. In fact, if you talk to a lot of musicians, you’ll learn that […]
Home is a different concept for a lot of musicians. A lot of times, home for a musician is where their stuff stays when they are on tour. (When tours are a thing, of course.) Other musicians divide their time between numerous hometowns. Theresa Lucia is one of the latter, dividing her time between New […]
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Southern songwriters have a way of writing songs to explain life in the American south. Drive-By Truckers made an album of it with Southern Rock Opera. In a similar fashion, Dirt Reynolds has recorded Scalawag as a way of “exploring his own southern identity in modern culture.” Exploring identity is an interesting proposition for Dirt […]
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Writing songs about heartache and relationships gone wrong is nothing new. It has probably been a staple topic ever since people started writing songs. Emily Duff has made an entire album – with her own spin – entitled Born on the Ground with nine songs about heartache and lost love. Of this collection of songs, she […]
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Musicians have countless reasons for taking a while to release an album. Few musicians have a story like Matt Lovell to explain the delay of a release. His new album Nobody Cries Today was recorded in 2016. Then in January 2017, Lovell was carjacked and shot in the chest. With the help of a bartender […]
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Once upon a time, there were magical places called record stores. You could go there and browse through the records and CDs (and yes, cassettes) of artists from any genre (depending, of course, on how good a selection the record store had). In these magical places you would find a section for each genre, but […]
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Bluegrass isn’t for everyone. No genre of music is. Still, if you spend any amount of time listening to bluegrass, you start to realize the beauty of it. The fact that bluegrass bands can do so much with only stringed instruments is pretty impressive. Furthermore, when you do spend any significant time listening to bluegrass, […]
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When you first hear G.F. Patrick’s songs on the new album One Town Over, you might assume that he is another musician who calls Nashville home. His melodies are pretty firmly planted in alt-country and Americana. You probably wouldn’t guess that he is from Philadelphia, a town more known for soul. It’s really a lesson […]
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Bluegrass has a longstanding tradition of the performers singing around one microphone. Buffalo Rose isn’t strictly a bluegrass band, although the instrumentation is similar to bluegrass. However, on the new album Borrowed and Blue: Live around One Microphone, the members show that they have the skill to carry on that particular tradition. Make no mistake. […]
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Tommy Emmanuel is one of those musicians that may not be a household name – unless those households are filled with musicians. However, if you happen to see him – even in a video – you realize why he is held in such high regard by other musicians. His technique and sound are enough to […]
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