Monday morning notebook
Dar Williams invited more than 200 folks over Saturday night for a spirited evening of songs and stories.In lieu of hosting at her house, which is in New York, Williams turned the Redmoor in Mount...
View ArticleCarll finds a home on the road
Growing up in the Houston, Texas, suburb of The Woodlands, Hayes Carll didn’t have a wealth of experience to draw upon when he started writing country songs.
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Thank you Bill Donabedian. The founder and public face of the Bunbury Music Festival put together a great team that produced a top-notch event in the face of some obstacles. Now, do it again next year...
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Rick McCarty has seen weeks like this before. He calls it coincidence, but more mystical types might call it this summer’s harmonic convergence.
View ArticleShawn Colvin wears the crown of hero humbly
In her memoir “Diamond in the Rough,” Shawn Colvin takes a deep breath, then rattles off a list of heroes that she has been lucky enough to meet during the course of an almost 40-year career.
View ArticleAnders Osborne finds redemption
Anders Osborne grew up in Sweden, so it’s uncertain whether schoolchildren there were familiar with the “three R’s (reading [w]riting and [a]rithmetic).”
View ArticleHall of Famer, Jorma Kaukonen, returns to Cincinnati
Like many Americans, Jorma Kaukonen is thankful to have a job these days. He is even more thankful that it is the same job he has had for more than 50 years.It might be hard to imagine, but Kaukonen,...
View ArticleBuddy and Jim define harmony
It sounds like the set-up for a bad gag: How many harmony singers does it take to (fill in the blank)?The good news, however, is the emergence of Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale into card-carrying...
View ArticleMcNally's 'Small Town Talk' pays tribute to Bobby Charles
Two recent projects have raised Shannon McNally’s profile over the past year or so, but collaboration is just one of the singer-songwriter’s strengths.
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