In Profile: Eliza Gilkyson Capturing songs, compassion and empathy by the midnight oil
By Richard Skanse (LSM March/April 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 2) “Oh Eliza, you try so hard …” That’s Eliza Gilkyson, singing to herself in a song she …
By Richard Skanse (LSM March/April 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 2) “Oh Eliza, you try so hard …” That’s Eliza Gilkyson, singing to herself in a song she …
TISH HINOJOSA After the Fair Varese Vintage Records Tish Hinojosa has been making beautiful, soulful music ever since bursting onto the folk scene in 1989 …
WOODY GUTHRIE American Radical Patriot Rounder Records As prolific as he was during his short life, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie has released far more recorded and …
Highlights from this year’s Woody Guthrie Folk Festival — and a call for help to keep the annual Okemah folk celebration free for all. By Tiffany …
By Holly Gleason (LSM May/June 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 3) It’s a late afternoon in the Big Apple, the tail end of a particularly …
By Richard Skanse (LSM May/June 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 3) Don’t call Steve Earle’s 1995 album Train a Comin’ a “comeback.” Oh, it certainly met …
By Courtney Sudbrink (Oct/Nov 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 5) Like just about any other day in Santa Monica, Calif., the sun is shining and the Spanish palms …
By D.C. Bloom (Oct/Nov 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 5) Jimmy LaFave strolls into Threadgill’s looking like any one of the thousands of hipster dads in …
NEIL YOUNG WITH CRAZY HORSE Americana Reprise Records Though still a Canadian citizen, Neil Young has lived more years in the States than “up north” …
Notes From the Editor By Richard Skanse (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) In the fall of 1994, a couple of months into my junior …