You picked JD Clayton – Long Way From Home as your favorite new release for the week of January 27, 2023. Poll Results New Releases Readers’ Tops Winter 2023 Margo Price – Strays (12 votes) JD Clayton – Long Way From Home (9) H.C. McEntire – Every Acre (8) The Bad Ends – The Power […]
Bill’s Badly Belated Blues Based Best of 2022
Ok, so it’s February. Kind of late for a year-in-review special. But, I was traveling for my day job, the one I get paid for, so that’s why I’m late. So, I’ve been doing these blues-based years in review for a few years now, and I’m not sure I ever explained the methodology I use, […]
Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams on Tour Meal Strategies and Navigating Their Careers in Music
Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams reflect on getting food poisoning at a show (Williams), being cured of any day job ambition (Campbell), the inspiration for her first song (Williams), and finding economic equilibrium on tour (Campbell).
Monday Morning Video – 11th Street Bar
Part of the fun of moving to a new city is exploring new venues. It’s certainly been that way for me in NYC. One of my fave finds is the 11th St Bar in the East Village. The bar has a storied musical history, counting Ryan Adams and Justin Townes Earle, among others, as patrons […]
Readers’ Pick: The Bad Ends – The Power and the Glory
You picked The Bad Ends – The Power and the Glory as your favorite new release for the week of January 20, 2023.
Alice Howe Premiere – What About You
Say what you will, but there are places in this world that have their own soul. I’ve never been, but I can imagine one of those is the FAME Studio in Muscle Shoals. Bi-coastal songstress Alice Howe certainly felt it the first time she recorded material there in 2019. The presence of all those previous […]
Melissa McClelland of Whitehorse on Touring in a Van Named Clarice and Rehearsing in the Rat Space
Melissa McClelland of the Canadian duo Whitehorse talks about playing open mics as a teenager, working in a covid world, and enjoying the journey.
Monday Morning Video – David Crosby
Another great one gone with the passing of David Crosby last week. Let’s celebrate his legacy with a classic performance of his “Almost Cut My Hair” with CSNY back in 1974 and “Wooden Ships” from his appearance with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit at the 2018 Newport Folk Festival.
Readers’ Pick: Margo Price – Strays
You picked Margo Price – Strays as your favorite new release for the week of January 13, 2023.
Jarrod Dickenson – Big Talk
If life is about the journey and not the destination, then I think there’s a corollary that most people are defined by the fight and not the win. It certainly seems that this phase of Jarrod Dickenson’s life hews to that. His new record, Big Talk, is a winner, due in no small part to […]