VOTE BY CLICKING HERE FOR YOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONG ON OUR READER’S POLL While this may be a minute late, it still gets to you before Christmas so you can stream and download a whole batch of songs just in time! If you haven’t read the reviews of the Keb Mo & Josh Rouse […]
I was given the task of reviewing The Holiday Sounds of Josh Rouse by my dear editor a month or so ago. The mistake I made was in not telling her I only listen to Christmas music after Thanksgiving, deadline be damned. So now that turkey day has come and gone, I can set pen […]
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You have been a successful artist for twenty five years, been honored with four Grammys, bucked the trends of popular music and found a home in the blues, R&B and Americana worlds, so now what? Why a Christmas album of course! Keb’ Mo’ follows up Oklahoma with this excellent holiday collection Moonlight, Mistletoe & You […]
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4 photos by Missy Curtis; marquee photo by Jason Davidson Drive-By Truckers @ The Princess Theatre Decatur, AL 9.27.19 Always go to the show. It’s a mantra I try and live by especially when it comes to bands I like. Native sons, the Drive-By Truckers, decided Decatur, Alabama needed a double shot of the […]
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I hate to say it but the first time I heard or heard John Calvin Abney was last summer when he was playing with John Moreland at The Caverns in Pelham, Tennessee. They were opening for Scott Miller and I was beyond excited to see Moreland in a live setting but given his bare bones […]
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(cover photo and photo of Mike and the Moonpies by Melissa Payne, all other photos by Melissa Clarke) I moved to Nashville in ’97 and for almost the entire time I have been blessed to live in the city AmericanaFest calls home. While I have been in the paying audience for numerous showcases over the […]
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I was unaware of Michael Cleveland until a friend of mine told me about the Flamekeeper : The Michael Cleveland Story documentary which chronicles Michael’s life and rise to prominence in the bluegrass world. A child prodigy, Cleveland developed an early love for the fiddle and bluegrass. Years later, after eleven Fiddle Player of the […]
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I had the opportunity to attend the record release party for Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper’s new album Tall Fiddler the week before street date. Held at Analog inside the Hutton Hotel in Nashville the evening was one of celebration and anticipation for IBMA winner and Grammy Nominee Cleveland. Special guests were hinted at and after […]
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photos by Elmer Mobley I walked into the lounge at City Winery not knowing what to expect. I had been asked to cover Beth Bombara on the eve of releasing her new album Evergreen (which is incredible by the way) and I can honestly say I was completely unfamiliar with her work. The same applied […]
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What do you plan on doing when you are 86? Yeah, I don’t know either. I wonder if Willie Nelson thought he would still be playing and recording, much less at the level he has shown over his last several albums. Ride Me Back Home (Legacy Recordings) is Nelson’s 69thalbum, lucky number 13 with producer Buddy […]
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