Bourbon ’n’ “Big City” Merle Haggard sings us back home: A personal tribute to a life-changing legend
By Holly Gleason I didn’t like country music. Truth is, I probably didn’t really know what it was at all. Whiny, nasal, twang twang twang …
By Holly Gleason I didn’t like country music. Truth is, I probably didn’t really know what it was at all. Whiny, nasal, twang twang twang …
By Richard Skanse Long before he built his House of Songs, launched an award-winning animation/film company, helped shepherd a Roky Erickson comeback, and dreamed up …
By Kelly Dearmore (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) The Tradewinds Social Club is not the kind of joint where lasting musical memories are …
D.C. BLOOM The Rest is Commentary Table or Booth Music In the 10 years since his move down from Virginia, corporate/ government speechwriter by day/singer-songwriter …
GRAHAM WEBER Faded Photos www.grahamweber.com If you want evidence that Graham Weber can rock, proceed directly to Ashes in the Rearview, the new album by …
By D.C. Bloom (LSM May/June 2014/vol. 7 – issue 3) It only takes about a minute into Lydia Loveless’s latest release, Somewhere Else, to realize that …
PATTY GRIFFIN American Kid New West Like most great songwriters, Patty Griffin is not known for happy tunes. But on American Kid, her New West …
MICHAEL FRACASSO Saint Monday Little Fuji Records It was pretty much a given that the latest album by Michael Fracasso would be good — very …