I’m not sure how I stumbled across Dori Freeman’s latest release. Facebook marketing maybe? A friend listening on Spotify? An email I accidently clicked on instead of deleting? Whatever the method, I’m grateful that I did, as she has turned out to be one of my favorite discoveries of 2017. After listening to the first […]

Some of my favorite songwriters are storytellers. Even better are the ones that leave the endings a bit open so you can come to your own conclusions about the ending. Damien Jurado does this brilliantly, as does Neil Young. You can get lost in a song and see the characters as if reading a 300 […]

“If it’s in a Susto song, then it really happened” says lead singer/songwriter Justin Osborne during our recent chat about the band’s new record & I’m Fine Today. “I mean, unless it’s something like our Jesus Christ beach song.” Although, I guess they could be hanging with Jesus, or some other entity with songs such […]

Photo by Darren Woodlief The first big concert I remember attending, besides a church revival or Fifth Sunday Night Singing, was Charlie Daniels at the Peach Festival in Gaffney, SC with the Pirates of the Mississippi opening.  I was around 14 years old and my dad took me.  It was a great time and I […]

I first became aware of The Handsome Family sometime around 1997 or so when the drummer in my college band blasted the tune “Moving Furniture Around” from their 1994 debut Odessa. I went on to hear them on and off throughout the years on the local Americana radio show (Red Bank Bar & Grille show) […]