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
One small byproduct of the Covid-19 pandemic has been a slight resurgence in soul music, with albums from Sonny Green, Gerald McClendon and Robert Finley, to name just a few. … Read more
If one were to try to touch all the Americana bases in just one album, pianist/ songwriter/vocalist Clint Morgan does a commendable job, doing blues, gospel, country, and R&B: everything … Read more
Photos by Tina Pastor LIVE MUSIC IS BACK AND IT FEELS SO GOOD! Yes, the prevailing emotion at the Briggs Farm Blues Fest was joy—a sentiment too seldom felt in the … Read more
Five and a half years after The Allman Brothers Band played their last concert at New York City’s Beacon Theater, the surviving members of that final lineup regrouped, with a … Read more
Photographs by Arnie Goodman Richard Thompson performed at the Free Wednesday concert series that will brighten up every Hump Day in Woodbridge through September. Promoter Bill Brandenburg packed the Woodbridge … Read more
The Rubinoos had the run of the place, with minimal adult supervision. Entering CBS Studios on Folsom Street in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 1976, the day after Jimmy Carter … Read more
I only knew of Rod Picott because he wrote and worked with Slaid Cleaves, but that was enough to pique my interest. Wood, Steel, Dust, & Dreams is a collection … 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
