Jess Williamson: Raised on Dolly, Bound for Elsewhere By Brian D’Ambrosio Jess Williamson was four or five years old, riding in the backseat while her mother drove and her grandmother sat up front. A song came over the radio. The two women began talking about how much they loved the singer. “Who is that?” Williamson […]
Angela Easterling photo by Sandlin Gaither Angela Easterling on The Personal and Historical Resonance Behind Songs From The Knoxville Project South Carolina-based singer/songwriter Angela Easterling has spent several years thinking about a very big project, one with the potential to be a musical stage play, that relates to her own family history in the Carolinas […]
Continue Reading
Wyatt Flores: Between the Road and the Ranch (photo by Matt Paskert) There are worse places to figure out what comes next than a mountain, a hammock and a sky full of stars. Wyatt Flores had been living in that temporary kingdom when we talked. He had been on the road, as usual, but this […]
Continue Reading
Dude Cervantes interview Dude Cervantes and the Panchos have a new self-titled album coming out this week via his own label Blind Owl Records. The album is rich with vibes, guitar work and stories about life, love, friendship, and just getting by in this thing called life. Cervantes continues to break new ground with his […]
Continue Reading
Interview: Mason Winfree Comes Full Circle at the 90th Annual Old Fiddlers’ Convention (photo by Shana Leigh) Some songs have a way of staying with you. For old-time musician Mason Winfree, one of the first songs he learned to play as a teenager on the autoharp, a string instrument commonly found in old-time and country […]
Continue Reading
Recently I have been going through some of my audio interviews and having them transcribed, particularly ones with that include some kind of historical import. In June of 2020 I did a phone interview with Radney Foster. This was in the midst of COVID and the aftermath of the George Floyd murder. It did not […]
Continue Reading
Waylon Payne Interview (photo by Glenn Cook) Waylon Payne is a seasoned entertainer and musician with a marked ability to touch people’s hearts with his songwriting. As Waylon Jennings’ godson, he was steeped in music from a very early age and understands it in a lived way from the inside. As a frequent traveler with […]
Continue Reading
Amy Speace photo by Stacie Huckeba Amy Speace on Weaving Together Poetry and Music For ‘The Cardinals’ And “Days Of Letting Go” Singer/songwriter and poet Amy Speace is releasing a collection of poems called The Cardinals on September 1st, 2026, along with an accompanying single, “Days of Letting Go,” out September 4th, 2026. Both will […]
Continue Reading
Cory Graves Alive and Thriving (photo by Jason Janik) Cory Graves has been part of the Dallas music scene for decades. He is most famously known for being a founding member of Vandoliers, oft-times seen swapping belly sweat on stage with bandmate and bow slinger Travis Curry. I recently received a telegram telling me that […]
Continue Reading
The Kennedys interview (photo by Ed Cornish) Maura and Pete Kennedy create music using delightful vocals and rustic, twangy sounds; and incorporating banjo, a twangy telecaster, harmonica, pedal steel, and 12-string guitar. The results are rootsy and easy to allow to wash over you and enjoy. We had a chance to talk with them about […]
Continue Reading