Kari Arnett (Photo By @cowtownchad) You could say that the year 2018 began with a fall. On New Year’s Day, Loretta Lynn fell in her house outside Nashville and broke her hip. The accident put her out of commission for most of the year. Lynn’s recovery cast an eerie silence over the year for a woman […]
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When Steve Forbert first came to New York from Meridian Mississippi more than 40 years ago, he kept journals that survive to this day. Forbert might blame himself for being a self-admitted pack rat, keeping them all these years but they provide a looking glass in real time into the past. They have come to […]
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When I last saw John Howie Jr., it seemed like he was everywhere. I was in downtown Carrboro, North Carolina outside Chapel Hill a couple of springs back. On the streets downtown posters of the dashing Howie under his trademark cowboy hat were seen promoting his upcoming show with the Rosewood Bluff. Inside at Cat’s […]
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Onstage at the Birchmere Music Hall across the river from Washington, DC, Rusty Young had something to share. “Here we are still together,” he said with emotion in his voice, “all of us and you.” After 50 years, the band Poco and their fans reverentially known as “Poco Nuts” gathered like they were at a class […]
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photo by Gregg Inhofer It may have been an inadvertent mistake but feels like a universal action of karmic retribution. When lyrics from a four-page section of a Bob Dylan notebook were left out of a lavish new box set More Blood, More Tracks, what might have been an oversight instead carries with it the […]
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Imagine if one of your favorite artists allowed you to watch them write a song. You’d probably jump at the chance. If you’re intrigued by the thought, then you’ll enjoy seeing the new documentary on DVD about Sarah Shook, What It Takes: Film en Douze Tableaux directed by Gorman Bechard (What Were We Thinking Films). […]
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In one line the Flatlanders tell you all you need to know about living in 2018. It’s the fearless who love and the loveless who fear
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The road in life does not always follow a linear path. As Teresa Williams stood onstage at Gypsy Sally’s, she admitted that as a girl from West Tennessee, she was somewhat in awe of being in the nation’s capital. Williams, who spent several decades in New York City, hails from the cotton country of Peckerwood […]
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Showmanship and work ethic was on full display onstage at Jammin’ Java outside Washington, D.C. as Lewis joined Robbie Fulks for the beginning of a tour behind Wild, Wild, Wild the album largely of songs Fulks wrote describing her life history.
As the boogie woogie pianist thrashed the keys, Lewis’ fingers were moving so fast it seemed like they were suspended in a tremor, blurred in mid-air by some supernatural force
As she accepted a Spirit of Americana Free Speech Award, Rosanne Cash admitted she was too old to care about the predictable insults that she’s endured for her views. “To quote Tom Morello,” she said center stage at the Ryman Auditorium during the 17th Annual Americana Music Awards, “I didn’t put down my first amendment […]
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