By Holly Gleason (Aug/Sept 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 4) “Our first song … was Norah Jones. Then our second one was Emmylou,” says Mary Karr of the first …
By Scott Schinder (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) Alejandro Escovedo’s new Big Station continues the incredible creative roll that began with 2006’s The Boxing …
By Richard Skanse (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) “I buried my heart, I was born again with 17 lies and one night of sin …
By Richard Skanse (LSM Jan/Feb 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 1) Ruthie Foster didn’t actually make her new Let It Burn album with her hands tied behind her …
LUCINDA WILLIAMS Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone Highway 20 Records At this point in her career, it’s almost hard to believe that Lucinda …
Various Artists The Lost Notebooks Of Hank Williams Egyptian Records/Columbia When Nora Guthrie first came up with the idea of having musicians breathe life into …
Lucinda Williams, Robert Plant, Buddy Miller and more honored By Lynne Margolis (Nov/Dec 2011/Vol. 4 – Issue 6) At previous Americana Honors and Awards shows, …
By Eric Hisaw (Nov/Dec 2011/Vol. 4 – Issue 6) Exiting this mortal coil at the tender age of 26, Cecil Ingram Connor, known to the …
TOM RUSSELL Mesabi Shout! Factory El Paso-based troubadour Tom Russell has been on one hell of a roll over the last decade, from digging deeply …
How Music City charmed my Americana heart By Shilah Morrow (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Like so many in our community, I’m sitting here …
