NEIL YOUNG, Peace Trail is your favorite for the week of December 9, 2016. Poll Results Readers’ Tops Fall 2016 THE MAVERICKS, All Night Live, Vol. 1 (143) TWO COW GARAGE, Brand New Flag (23) THE ROLLING STONES, Blue & Lonesomes (18) VARIOUS ARTISTS, Highway Prayer – Tribute to Adam Carroll (16) ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO, Burn Something […]
Monday Morning Video – Celebrating the Boston Music Awards
For nearly 30 years, the Boston Music Awards have celebrated all the great music that emanates from, well, Boston. This year’s event was held last week and a number of Twangville faves walked out as winners. The Silks were selected blues artist of the year while Julie Rhodes took the best new artist crown. Old […]
Readers’ Pick: Blue & Lonesome by The Rolling Stones
THE ROLLING STONES, Blue & Lonesome beats out DAMIEN JURADO & RICHARD SWIFT, Other People’s Songs, Vol. 1 as your favorite for the week of December 2, 2016. Poll Results New Releases Did we miss something? If you feel a new release is missing from our current poll, please let us know in the comments. […]
Silas Lowe – Wandering Father, Forgotten Son
“My poor, poor body; my poor, poor soul. Regret rules my life now that I’m old.”  So goes the beginning of the chorus of About A Dying Father, on the new release from Silas Lowe; Wandering Father, Forgotten Son. In sort of a tribute to Lowe’s father, a 60’s musician who left the family when Silas […]
A Video Premiere from Flagship Romance
I’m generally not a fan of lyric videos and don’t post them but I’m going to make an exception for Flagship Romance. I’m sure that most would agree that one of the greatest feelings a music fan can have comes in that moment when he or she discovers a new favorite artist. I had one […]
Adam Carroll on Avoiding Complacency and His Envy of Darrell Scott’s RV Camper
Texas singer-songwriter Adam Carroll talks about not (yet) being fired as a sideman in his wife’s band and why his tour vehicles are SUVs rather than RVs.
Guster- 25 Years and Counting
Guster at Columbus Theater Providence, RI November 19, 2016 The 3 founding members of Guster met at Tufts University (go Jumbos!) in 1991. Celebrating 25 years as a band, these guys sound polished and as good as they ever did back in their glory days. Jeff and I decided it was time to party like […]
Readers’ Pick: Boots No. 1: Official by Gillian Welch
GILLIAN WELCH, Boots No. 1: Official beats out MATT POND PA, Winter Lives as your favorite for the week of November 25, 2016. Poll Results New Releases Did we miss something? If you feel a new release is missing from our current poll, please let us know in the comments. Readers’ Tops Fall 2016 THE MAVERICKS, […]
I Will Remember Massachusetts, Part 2 – A Special Boston Playlist
Good Old Wind, Kingsley Flood (from the self-released Another Other) There’s been a recent trend of artists producing EPs rather than full-length LPs. The economics make sense, certainly for independent artists, in the context of the continuously evolving music industry. I also appreciate the possibility of getting more frequent, albeit shorter, releases from my favorite […]
Monday Morning Video – Alejandro Escovedo “Sister Lost Soul”
Alejandro Escovedo (rock band edition) just passed through Boston for a post-Thanksgiving extravaganza. In the midst of an otherwise rocking set that leaned heavily on the just-released Burn Something Beautiful, Escovedo took a solemn moment to reflect on the many musicians that we’ve lost this year. He celebrated their memory with a moving version of […]