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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To this day Arnett says she has to reach for her voice recorder to put down all of the melodies that come to her.
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At the Carter Fold in the Appalachian mountains where the Carter Family originated, Jim Lauderdale walked off stage where he was the night’s host and headed to the merch table. Standing alongside Junior Sisk and the Church Sisters, Lauderdale was mingling with the crowd when he handed me a new CD. It wasn’t just that […]
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I can’t say that I ever ran into Glenn Frey but he once ran by me. I was sitting behind the stage at the Yale Bowl during a July afternoon on the Eagles The Long Run tour. As the band finished its last encore, men were running up the steps following Glenn Frey. As the […]
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You see them everywhere. Pictures keep popping up of artists holding and reading a book. There’s Steve Earle. There’s Miranda Lambert. There’s Emmylou Harris. And there’s Billy Gibbons peering out from behind his black shades glued to Woman Walk The Line: How The Women In Country Music Changed Our Lives (University of Texas Press), this year’s […]
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