Author Archive: Jim Simpson
Jim Simpson is a music critic and award-winning fiction writer. A native of the wilds of Florida's Gulf Coast, he now resides on the scruffy outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia. His musical taste spans all genres: Bluegrass, Americana, Classic Country, Alt-Country, Western Swing, Blues, Classical, Rock 'n' Roll, Punk, Reggae, Klezmer, and British Isles Folk (to name but a few). He once sang Happy Birthday (with about 10,000 other people) to Joni Mitchell, and has seen such legends as Miles Davis, The Incredible Jimmy Smith, Rockpile, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, R.E.M., Blue Rodeo, King Sunny Ade, Elvis Costello and Bob Dylan live in concert. Jim is also managing editor for Awaiting the Flood, as well as a book and music reviewer for Hellbomb and Atlanta Music Guide. He occasionally contributes essays to the international writers collective TheNervousBreakdown.com, and has been at work on his first novel for longer than he originally planned. It should be in bookstores some time before his death.
Album Review: The Essential Highwaymen – (Columbia)
By Jon Black — If one were to parse the entire pantheon of country music heroes for a quartet [...]
Win a Copy of Coal Miner’s Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn
CONGRATULATIONS to LC and Raina! We’ll be mailing the CDs to you directly. Everyone else, [...]
Charlie Louvin: The Battles Rage On
A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the longest living member of the Grand Old Opry, [...]
Album Review: Marshall Chapman – “Big Lonesome” (TallGirl Records)
We’re a simple music magazine — we’re not the very serious International Society [...]
New Release: The Band Perry
The Band Perry is having a great start this release week! Their self-titled debut album is #10 on [...]
Q&A with The Secret Sisters – (Way More Than 12 Questions)
Honest and meaningful music is what caught T. Bone Burnett’s ear. The Secret Sisters certainly [...]
Contest Giveaway: Signed Copies of Marty Stuart’s Ghost Train
That’s right, we’re giving away TWO copies of Marty Stuart’s critically acclaimed Ghost Train: [...]
Contest Giveaway: Pete Seeger’s new CD
The great Satchel Paige famously said, “Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t [...]
Contest Giveaway: Signed copy of Rosanne Cash memoir, Composed
We were fortunate enough to meet up with Rosanne Cash backstage at a recent performance/reading at [...]
Book Review: Rosanne Cash – Composed (a memoir)
Rosanne Cash, firstborn child of country music icon Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian, was a [...]
The Infamous Stringdusters Fly High
With fingers flying across acoustic strings and a sound blending the finest traditions of American [...]
Charlie Louvin – Hickory Wind: Live at the Gram Parsons Guitar Pull, Waycross, GA – (Tompkins Square Records)
This review comes on the heels of some unfortunate news, as Charlie Louvin was recently diagnosed [...]
Merle Haggard: Country Music Traditionalist, Internet Prophet
In April 2010, Merle Haggard’s latest album, I Am What I Am hit stores and radio stations around [...]
Those Darlins Summer/Fall Tour Schedule
Here’s their full schedule through the first of October, so you have no excuses not to get out [...]
Spotlight on Megan McCormick – “Honest Words”
Out of the wilds of Idaho and Alaska, Megan McCormick has settled in Nashville. Her fiery debut, [...]
Jim Avett Talks About Family, Nashville, New CD “Tribes”
When asked about his plans for Father’s Day, Jim Avett simply said, “Not a thing. [...]
Win Free Copies of Mary Chapin Carpenter’s New CD!
We love Mary Chapin Carpenter’s new CD, The Age of Miracles. Judging by the emails we’ve [...]
12 Questions with Derek Hoke
Twelve is an iconic number. There were the 12 Tribes of Israel, there are 12 eggs in a dozen, and [...]
Mary Chapin Carpenter – The Age of Miracles – (Zoe/Rounder Records)
Five-time Grammy Award winner Mary Chapin Carpenter is lucky to be alive. She suffered a pulmonary [...]
Nashville Scene: How NOT to Act at Bonnaroo
Middle Tennessee is the place to be. Yes, the Big B. Bonnaroo. For those of you who’ve been [...]
