Country Music Hearts Obama!
I remember the comedian Chris Rock on a cable filmed stand-up special saying something like what is the world coming to when the top rapper in the world is white (Eminem) and the top golfer…
Tag Archives: Steve-Earle
Martin M-21 Steve Earle Custom Edition
Matt Umanov knows a thing or two about guitars. His New York City West Village shop has been selling new and vintage guitars since 1965 as well as doing excellent repairs and upgrades. Steve Earle…
Americana Music Association 2008 Honors and Awards Nominees Announced
The 2008 Americana Music Association Honors and Awards Nominees have been announced with Alison Krauss & Robert Plant getting the most nods for their moody roots release “Raising Sand.” Some are dead on and some,…
“I’ll Love You till I Die” – Top 30 Country/Roots Love Songs
Sure most genres deal with topic of love but few can work all the angles like country and roots music. Courting, marriage, sex, cheating, fighting, break-ups, shooting, disposing of bodies… it’s all there in all…
Stephen King’s – Spooky Americana Fan
CMT reports that spooky author and member of the Rock Bottom Remainders band Stephen King has included new albums by Steve Earle and Lyle Lovett on his year-end list of favorite music, published in the…
New York Times Writer Champions Country Music for Insight Into America
Kurt Campbell who’s bio states that he’s is an expert on Asia and security issues who is now chief executive of the Center for a New American Security and served in the Pentagon in the…
Lucinda Williams – Town Hall, New York – 10/02/07
It’s rare to walk out of a concert and think, “Damn I was just a witness to a piece of musical history.” On a warm, humid night last Tuesday I thought just that. I came…
Lucinda Williams – Town Hall, New York – New York Times
The New York Times has a nice write up on the Lucinda Williams “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” show played Tuesday night at Town Hall in New York City. This was the third of…
Steve Earle Speaks on Music and Activism
Texas expat and roots rock legend will take time from promoting his latest album, Washington Square Serenade (9/25) and shooting HBO’s The Wire, where he stretched and portrays an ex-junkie, and heads uptown from his…
New York Concert Calender
Some upcoming New York shows foe all you city Hillbillys and Betties. Bowery Ballroom Fri 09/14/07 Pieta Brown Fri 09/14/07 Teddy Thompson Sat 09/29/07 Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers Sat 09/29/07 The Alternate Routes Wed…