MBird, A Fine Artist Indeed
MBird is singer/songwriter Megan Birdsall, a gifted musician who was born in Motown, grew up in the home of jump jazz, and lives part time in Music City. Her haunting melodies and evocative lyrics rest on a bed of traditional country instruments playing anything but traditional country. Influenced by a diverse array of writers such […]
Truth & Salvage Co.
Every so often you come across a band whose music sort of reaches out and shakes hands with your soul. That’s just what the music of LA’s own Truth & Salvage Co. did to me. It’s a nice feeling, too, considering the vastly diluted pool of modern Americana rock bands fending for a spot on […]
Declan McGarry – Self-Titled Debut – (LT Records)
Declan McGarry is obsessed with summertime and being seventeen again. That’s what you might think on on the opening “Summer Heat” and subsequent songs like “Seventeen” and “Summers of My Life.” But hold on. This 25-year-old Canadian who hails from Winnipeg — hometown of the legendary Neil Young and an early influence — has much […]
Dave Matthews joins Nashville stars in rallying against mountaintop removal mining
“Having this show at the Ryman has special meaning,” Emmylou Harris said as she summed up the feelings behind the Music Saves Mountains benefit concert held Wednesday night (May 19) at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. “If the Ryman is the mother church of country music, then the Appalachian Mountains are its sacred ground. We […]
Brooks & Dunn tribute concert to air Sunday night
More than a dozen top country music performers are saddling up to honor Brooks & Dunn during their “Last Rodeo.” Fans and fellow stars alike will bid farewell to the best-selling duo in musical history with the premiere of the TV special “ACM Presents: Brooks & Dunn — The Last Rodeo” at 7 p.m. Sunday […]
Willie Nelson “Country Music” Rounder
“This is my definition of real country music.” That’s what Willie Nelson says about his new album, and, with that in mind, it’s interesting that he chooses to close the album with “Nobody’s Fault but Mine” – which comes from the blues tradition, rather than country. It was the only song that Willie added to […]
The 51st Newport Folk Festival: July 30th-Aug 1st
Nestled within a fortress alongside Newport harbor will be the 51st edition of George Wein’s Folk Festival. July 30th through August 1st, Newport, RI will be flooded with acoustic melodies, flat-picking guitars, and folk legends and up-and-comers as they gather to celebrate the history of a festival that began in 1959 in the very same […]
Jason Boland: What’s going on in the sticks these days?
It began with Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family in the 1920s, but country music has come a long way since the days of “Blue Yodel No. 1” and “Wildwood Flower.” In the early 1940s it was Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs, and later honky tonk was born with Ernest Tubb and Hank Williams. […]
Haggard brings back old-school country in “I Am What I Am”
What would you have if the past 25 years of country music history had never occurred? You would Merle Haggard’s new album, I Am What I Am. Released on his Hag Records label, this is old-school country gold from the era of AM radio and 8-track tapes played on long 55-mph road trips. It is […]
CMP to Nikki Darlin: “It’s break a LEG not an ARM!”
This just in, a statement from Those Darlins: “Nikki Darlin suffers injury, postponing Australia tour and Memphis show; Nashville’s Dead show this Saturday 5/22 becomes fundraiser to aid with medical bills. “This past weekend, Nikki Darlin of Those Darlins broke both bones in her left forearm after performing Friday at The Nelsonville Music Festival in […]
