Yes, these kinds of albums have been done before. Mark Erelli did a fine job with his album of the same title, as just one example. And, the adage these
The band name is likely a concession to our current world of digital media where a search may turn up a hotel chain rather than a musical group. Dig just
While much of today’s disturbing rhetoric on immigration aims to divide, Che Apalache is a band forming a bridge between North and South America, infusing traditional bluegrass with Latin stylings
Smooth Hound Smith (SMS) is husband and wife team (yes, another one in this year of duos) Zack Smith and Caitlin Doyle-Smith who began in southern California, honed their craft
Marc Cohn and Blind Boys of Alabama have been on tour now for almost year, performing material from this collaborative album, Work to Do. It’s a well-conceived, well-executed live show
Acclaimed singer/songwriter/pianist Davina Sowers has been making low budget records since 2006 and attracted plenty of notice from prestigious outlets like Downbeat in the process. This writer described her this
Billy Price’s star is rising. The Pittsburgh-based soul singer won a BMA for Best Soul Blues Album of 2015 when he collaborated with Otis Clay. Last year’s “Reckoning” received a
The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker from 1959 was long before “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, “Boogie Chillun” and ”Dimples” but the groundwork for such fare is here
Mentions of music festivals in the summer of 1969 usually bring one name to mind for most – Woodstock. Blues fans, however, point to the Ann Arbor Blues Festival, the
Texas singer-songwriter Adam Carroll released his own I Walked in Them Shoes just this past April and many accompanying stories mentioned the chemistry that he, his wife, Chris, have in
