A fellow music writer once described Eric Clapton as all technique and no soul. Where I differed from this writer was in my view that being highly talented but lacking
Listen to Reed Turchi’s gravelly, snarling voice and swaggering slide guitar playing and you’ll find his self-proclaimed style of “kudzu boogie” spreading over you and engulfing you much like that
Natural chemistry is one of the hardest things to find for a musician. You can do as many collaborations and sit-ins as you want, but finding one or two other
Luther Dickinson is excited. It’s not the fact that, at the age of 41 the Mississippi guitar player has already built a towering musical legacy as a founding member of
As of this week, twenty-eight years have passed since the very first South By Southwest (SXSW) Music Conference took place in Austin, Texas. A lot has changed since then; massive
The Drive-By Truckers (DBT) may be one of the most resilient bands around. For going on twenty years these Southern rockers have stayed on the road almost constantly while somehow
Every so often you hear a band that truly surprises you in the most delightful kind of way. Some weeks back I came across an album from a little band
Few musicians are as recognizable as Les Claypool. Between his bizarrely unique and hugely influential style of bass playing, darkly comical lyrics, and cartoonish, sinister vocal delivery, Claypool is a
They say distance makes the heart grow fonder, and in the case of the New Jersey’s Railroad Earth that distance can be measured in time. It’s been three years since
