The Garrett Boys It Runs Deep “It’s a funny thing about humility,” songwriter T-Bone Burnett once wrote. “As soon as you know you’re being humble, you’re no longer humble.” The same is true for authenticity. Essential to great roots music, it works best when it’s felt rather than announced—like hot sauce in a pot of […]
Notes From The 2025 Annapolis Songwriters Festival: A Haimish Haven for True Listening Annapolis isn’t the sort of town where you usually see folks with guitar cases on the sidewalk. For most of the year, pink polo shirts far outnumber black T-shirts, and you’ll spot twenty pairs of topsiders for every pair of boots. But […]
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James McMurtry Makes His Case – Annapolis Songwriter’s Festival Rams Head on Stage, Annapolis, MD, September 18, 2022 by Mark Pelavin Closing out the Inaugural Annapolis Songwriter Festival, James McMurtry made a powerful case for being recognized as the premier songwriter of this generation. It’s as if he looked at the 65 or 70 songwriters who performed […]
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Lucinda Williams Brings Her “Real Life Stories” to Annapolis Songwriter’s Festival September 16, 2022 “Telling real life stories, that’s my role” Americana trailblazer Lucinda Williams told the enthusiastic audience at Maryland Hall in Annapolis, capping the second day of the first Annapolis Songwriters Festival. The relationship between Williams and her audience was at the center […]
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Josh Ritter Brings his “Messianic, Oracular Honky-Tonk” To the Rams Head (part of the Inaugural Annapolis Songwriters Festival) For a guy who writes and sings about dying mill towns, the nature of truth, and the use and abuse of God, Josh Ritter sure seems to be having a great time. His show at the Rams […]
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