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Brian T. Atkinson invited 73 of Mickey Newbury’s closest friends and associates to pay homage to this Texas native. People like Larry Gatlin, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle and Kris Kristofferson … Read more
If there ever was a book that epitomizes the good, bad, and ugly aspects of the burgeoning music business in the ’60s South, it’s Howard Grimes’ memoir, TIMEKEEPER, My Life … Read more
In Words and Music Into the Future: a Songwriting Treatise and Manifesto, songwriter Michael Koppy states what you may have thought but never dared to say, or perhaps what you … Read more
Ray Wiley Hubbard may just be the coolest cat in country, folk, rock-n-roll, and whichever or whatever other music genre-boxes you might put him into. (He’ll play around and escape … Read more
Refugees of the turbulent 1960s came out of that wilderness traumatized and weary. The breezy, soft-rock therapy peddled by America had the power to heal and blow away the pollution … Read more
Often described as a sleepy little college town, Athens, Georgia, was wide awake in the 1980s. Roused from its slumber by a percolating DIY music scene that piqued the curiosity … Read more
Even before I could read, I was fascinated by the fine print and the graphics on record labels and wondered what it all meant, especially the tiny letters in parenthesis. … Read more
1973 was anything but dull, as a maelstrom of socio-political activism, sexual liberation, corruption, scandal and hedonistic excess made it seem as if civilization was either on the brink of … Read more
Recent years have seen a near-flood of music-based works, many targeted at US blues musicians, guys who generally laid down the foundations of much modern music. These biographies fill a … Read more
If you’re looking for a holiday present for your favorite music or photography fan, look no further. It’s wintertime, and the giving is easy. Jérôme Brunet’s coffee-table book of our favorite … Read more
