Blue Rock provides a destination studio experience where the artist and team can live, work, play, and eat together, also hosting concerts, artist residencies, and workshops. The studio was designed and built with native wood and stone in the spirit of a 19th century fort/mission, converted to acoustic spaces for tracking and mixing audio + […]
Eli Paperboy Reed on Tour Dynamics and Delivering Flowers
Boston-reared, Brooklyn-based R&B and soul artist Eli Paperboy Reed talks about enjoying local delicacies while on tour, learning how to not break guitar strings, and the first blues song that he wrote.
Monday Morning Video – Flaco Jiménez
Another legend gone. Chances are you’ve heard Flaco Jiménez—even if you didn’t know his name. For more than seven decades, his unmistakable accordion sound helped define and popularize Tejano music, bridging Mexican folk traditions with American country, rock, and blues. Flaco’s influence ran deep—whether leading his own conjunto, anchoring the Texas Tornados alongside Doug Sahm, […]
Readers’ Pick: The Honeydogs – Algebra For Broken Hearts
You picked The Honeydogs – Algebra For Broken Hearts as your favorite new release for the week of August 1, 2025.
Henhouse Prowlers – Unravel
The modern theme for a 20th anniversary gift is platinum. That’s relevant because this year is the 20th year Chicago bluegrass group Henhouse Prowlers have been a band. They have a new album out, Unravel, and I’m sure they’d be happy to have it certified platinum. In this day and age, though, they’ll probably have […]
Hayes Carll – We’re Only Human
I’ve heard several musicians state they don’t know what they would have done if they weren’t musicians. It’s all they’ve ever been any good at, or even really known how to do. I have no idea how Hayes Carll feels about that notion, but I’m pretty sure he could have been a standout comedian or […]
Nate Currin on Taking a BBQ Tour and Grinding It Out in the Music Business
Singer-songwriter Nate Currin talks about becoming more “domesticated” and the enduring meaning of an early composition.
Monday Morning Video – Willie, Leon, and Ray
How about three legends – Willie Nelson, Leon Russell, and Ray Charles – to help kick off the week. Here they are in 2003 performing a song that all three have recorded: Russell’s classic “A Song For You”. This performance took place back in 2003 at Willie’s 70th birthday party in NYC.
Readers’ Pick: Lord Huron – The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1
You picked Lord Huron – The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 as your favorite new release for the week of July 18, 2025.
Wild Mountain Mystics – Fire & Honey
I was reading the other day about the Horseshoe Theory, which suggests that the extreme right and extreme left have surprisingly similar points of view on many things. I won’t comment on the political validity of that, but I discovered a musical version of the idea. Imagine combining the DIY aesthetic of punk rock and […]