Americana and country music aren’t know for providing the world with the the lightest subjects in the music universe (Roger Miller and Todd Snider excluded). The Late Show With Stephen Colbert has underlined this truth…
The ‘The Muppets’ show too a wonderful rootsy turn the other night when Miss Piggy and Kermit Cover “In Spite of Ourselves” by John Prine. The song is the title cut from Prine’s 13th studio…
WARNING : Profanity I like to think I know a little about the history of country music and it’s talent over the years. So how is it that I’ve never heard of Wheeler Walker Jr.?…
Photo by Rick Diamond, Getty Images This is a guest post by Holly Gleason When Emmylou Harris sang, “One thing they don’t tell you about the blues when you got ‘em/ You keep on falling…
When Sony Music Nashville CEO Gary Overton told the Tennessean, “If you’re not on country radio, you don’t exist.” it caused a minor kerfuffle between country music bloggers and country artists, like Aaron Watson and…
The thing with masters is that they appear to wield craft with such aplomb that they give the illusion of effortlessness. Texas singer-songwriter James McMurtry’s newest album, ‘Complicated Game’ builds on 2005’s ‘Childish Things’ and…
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Ryan Adams has displayed some, um, irritation at being mistaken for Canadian pop-rocker Bryan Adams. He’s also been known to get bent out of shape when Bryan Adams songs are called out at his shows.…
Nashville in the 70’s was a place of wandering, dusty minstrels tripping into town from distant small towns with little more than cheap guitars, grand dreams and a reverent yet defiant attitude regarding the power…
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One of the best bands I’ve had the privilege of seeing play live, The Felice Bothers have brought some of that playfulness to the video for their latest single “Lion.” Shenanigans and tomfoolery abound. Clad…
There’s so much to love about this Portlandia skit featuring Uncle Tupelo/Wilco’s own Jeff Tweedy. To me Portlandia suffers from much of the preciousness it aims to lambast. On occasion it hits dead on. This…