Steve Wosahla, Author at Americana Highways

In Richmond, The Baseball Project Cures The Summer Duldrums

August 29, 2023August 29, 2023Steve Wosahla0

In Richmond, The Baseball Project Cures The Summer Duldrums The dog days of summer are upon us and with the allure of football coming soon, August is a tricky month for baseball fans who have endured an already long season. But with the pennant race tightening, it’s also a reminder that the best baseball to […]

In Bristow, Dead & Company Skip The Goodbyes

June 7, 2023June 7, 2023Steve Wosahla1

Dead & Company in Bristow VA As shows go, Dead & Company’s stop in Bristow was surprisingly low key with few surprises. If this was just another Saturday night (to paraphrase the title of the second-set’s rousing finale), there was some anticipation that this night might be a little different. After all this iteration of […]

New Book Highlights Fleetwood Mac’s 1969 Chicago Sessions At Chess Studios

June 1, 2023June 1, 2023Steve Wosahla0

(Peter Green, Otis Spann and John McVie. Photo By Jeff Lowenthal) January of 1969 is often associated with memories of the Beatles gathering behind the cameras to film the Get Back sessions. On the other side of the Atlantic, another historic event was taking place. The British blues band called Fleetwood Mac was touring America […]

Leaving The Pandemic Behind, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams Get Back On Normal Time

March 30, 2023April 1, 2023Steve Wosahla1

We’re still getting over scars left by the pandemic and not being able to hear live music. But the documentary film series, It Was The Music, about the married duo Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, helped us get us through those dark days. As we stayed sequestered, we got to watch a film directed by Mark […]

At The Birchmere, Last Train Home & The End of an Era

February 8, 2023February 9, 2023Steve Wosahla1

At around 6:00, the opening of the doors inside the Birchmere Music is a ritual that is ingrained with music history spanning over forty years and the countless legends who have played on this stage in Alexandria, Virginia just outside Washington, D.C. Outside the 500 seat listening room, fans would gather in the early afternoon […]

In Celebrating His Son’s Life, Steve Earle Makes The Long Walk Home

January 11, 2023January 11, 2023Steve Wosahla0

The five hardest words Steve Earle ever had to say came when he had to open his Hardcore Troubadour Radio show in the summer of 2020. Earle had just received the news that his son had tragically passed away and it took everything within him to begin the show and be able to say, “Justin […]

The Cowsills Hope We Avoid a “Nuclear Winter”

December 23, 2022December 23, 2022Steve Wosahla0

The Cowsills Hope We Avoid a “Nuclear Winter” Presidents are usually measured and nuanced when it comes to foreign policy. But President Biden sent shivers around the world when he spoke about the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons, adding that not once the Cuban Missile Crisis of the early Sixties had we come close […]

For Peter Cooper, There Was Always Another Story Waiting To Be Told

December 11, 2022December 11, 2022Steve Wosahla0

“Do you know about Will?” Peter Cooper leaned over and looked at me with a warm smile and his soft spoken South Carolinian accent. His eyes lit up as he was prone to do when he was about to tell a story. Cooper was about to go onstage with his friends Eric Brace and Thomm […]

Yesterday’s Gone: Remembering Christine McVie

December 2, 2022December 2, 2022Steve Wosahla1

Christine McVie Like many baby boomers, I’ve suffered from a sort of post-traumatic stress syndrome resulting from hearing some of my favorite songs being used to hawk products. I trace it back to Carly Simon’s use of “Anticipation” in a ketchup commercial. I think I lost it when Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours era drama “Go Your […]

J.D. Souther’s Night of Stories and Song At The Barns at Wolf Trap

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022Steve Wosahla1

The sparse stage at the Barns at Wolf Trap had just two guitars, a grand piano and a stand for a drink. But when J.D. Souther stepped in front of the three hundred plus people gathered in two onetime barns barn turned intimate theater, he only carried a small palm size notebook with cues to […]