Old trees just grow stronger A songwriter's appreciation of John Prine
By D.C. Bloom Austin is a city of songwriters. And if you were to poll them all, I’d wager you’d find that a healthy percenage …
By D.C. Bloom Austin is a city of songwriters. And if you were to poll them all, I’d wager you’d find that a healthy percenage …
By D.C. Bloom From a 1983 jam session in a Manchaca, Texas warehouse to over three million airplays around the world, Bill Carter’s “Crossfire” has come …
MARGO PRICE Midwest Farmer’s Daughter Third Man Records Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, the auspicious debut (on Jack White’s Third Man Records) from Illinois native and current …
PARKER MILLSAP The Very Last Day Okrahoma Records You listen to one too many fire and brimstone sermons as a young ’un growing up in …
By D.C. Bloom Miranda Dawn and Chris Hawkes are that incredibly adorable couple down the street that you find yourself really liking despite the fact …
a life … well, lived By Ray Wylie Hubbard with Thom Jurek Bordello Records By D.C. Bloom The epigraph speaks volumes. Ray Wylie Hubbard chooses the …
By D.C. Bloom Longtime fans of the wildly prolific folk singer Dan Bern may have believed the rest of the world was finally catching on …
By D.C. Bloom (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Noel McKay will never forget the day he opened that can of whoop-ass at the …
By D.C. Bloom (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) A funny thing happened on the way to completing Jess Klein’s most recent album, Learning …
THE BELLE SOUNDS Black Stone www.thebellesounds.com The Belle Sounds have one helluva sound. It’s a vintage Rumours-esque harmonic lushness over precise, Shins-like shiny grooves. Black …