I love rock and roll, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be a deep emotion in it too. It’s scary to write what you feel, because then you put it out there for analysis…. I like to have that cushion of rock music buffering the vulnerability, because it’s hard to be confessional.
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We could have a quiet folkie one night and then have Alejandro Escovedo rocking his ass off the next night. I just wanted it “song” oriented. That’s all I cared about.
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My music is Americana but it’s not typical to what women are doing in Americana. And that’s just going to take a little bit of extra tenacity on my part to get people to recognize that.
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AmericanaFest 2018: 6 shows I was glad not to miss Attending Nashville’s annual AmericanaFest can be a bit stressful, not to mention exhausting. Spaced out over more than a dozen venues across the city, each one putting on simultaneous shows with an average of 4 or 5 bands on each ticket — not to mention […]
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There are so many dynamics that are completely different with three from with two. And if you hear something special in really good three-part harmonies, that is the audio representation of that very thing.
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Highlights from Americana Fest 2018. (if you see bolded words, click on them) Americana music by definition is quality music which often crosses boundaries as it creates new hybrid styles. So it’s a highlight when there’s innovation afoot, when expectations are defied, and when true epiphanies take place. With the caveat that I missed […]
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Here’s our photo slideshow of musicians we saw (and some that we talked to) at Americana Fest 2018: Lucero, Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale, Walter Salas-Humara, Vandoliers, Bloodshot Records, Regina McCrary, Bottle Rockets, Sarah Borges, Eric Ambel, Mary Gauthier, Jim White, Kinky Friedman, Dom Flemons. Tim Easton, Jaimee Harris, Kelcy Mae, Ever More Nest, The […]
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The lyrics have to be something that I can relate to through my life experiences. So if I sound yearning it’s probably because I have been.
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Singer-songwriter Karen Jonas released her third album, Butter, earlier this year. I caught up with her and her guitarist and producer, Tim Bray, before a show at Washington, DC’s Pearl Street Warehouse. In a wide-ranging interview, we discussed topics ranging from musical genres to discrimination against mothers to arts in the schools, as well as […]
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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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