Record Store Day 2019 – Americana and Roots Music Picks
Spring has sprung and for some antiquated reason we lose an hour of sleep, pollen lays waste to the weakest among us, people lay in fields Of bluebonnets just begging for a snake bite and…
Category Archives: Legends
Buddy and Julie Miller Announce Summer Release For New Album ‘Breakdown on 20th Ave. South’
It’s said that good things come to those that wait. For patient fans of one of Americana music’s most influential artist-songwriter couples (married since 1981) that wait for something good is almost over. The long-anticipated…
Watch Out! Hayes Carll – Times Like These
It seems these days people are going out of their way to find reasons to divide themselves. Like somehow looking for the common humanity in your neighbor that binds us together is out of style,…
Watch Out! Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Sing “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” Oscars 2019
The 2019 Academy Awards held very little appeal for me (how was Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat and Charlie Sexton’s performances in ‘Blaze’ overlooked?!) but a break in the tedium came when Kacey Musgraves introduced Gillian…
Hear Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Perform “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings”
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings wrote “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” for the recent six-part Coen brothers anthology, The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs. If you watched the show you know the original…
Jason Isbell Announces Summer Tour with Father John Misty
Summers are always made better when there’s great live music to attend. Jason Isbell hitting the road with Father John Misty is just one of those highly anticipated summer evets. See dates and buying info…
The Felice Brothers Announce New Album ‘Undress.’ Hear the Title Cut
Few contemporary bands embody what Greil Marcus coined as “Old. weird America” as well as The Felice Brothers and a new release by this Upstate New York rustic-core collective is always welcome news. The new…
John Paul White Readies “The Hurting Kind” For Spring Release; Hear New Single Now
There are many ways to describe the work of master singer-songwriter John Paul White. If forced to distill to a single word to describe his aesthetic it would be bittersweet. So, to learn that White’s…
Record Store Day Black Friday 2018 Americana and Roots Recommendations
Just as the weather turns crisp and the Halloween candy gluts the store isles you know that Record Store Day Black Friday event is right around the corner. The event, that results in indy record…
5 Things You May Not Know About The Byrds’ ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’
In the late 60s, the American rock band the Byrds were ripe for a change. The band’s fifth LP, The Notorious Byrd Brothers proved to be another sterling example of the band’s established psychedelic experimentation,…