News Bits
- Joe Satriani 30th anniversary tour
- Dearly Departed: Shakey Graves’ New Video is On Solid Ground
- Gayle Force: A Crystal Gayle Exhibit Takes The Country Music Hall of Fame by Storm
- Still Angry After 35 Years: Veteran Punk Rockers, The Adolescents, to Release New Album, “La Vendetta”
- Steve Earle at The Crossroads: Veteran Musician to Release Blues Album
- Good for the Soul: Stax Records Reissues Two Classic Soul Collections
- Bob Dylan: From The Village to the Basement
- Billy Joe Shaver & Willie Nelson to Perform on Letterman
- Iconic Club Owner Eddie Wilson Puts Memorabilia Collection Up for Auction
- Ken Burns Addresses CMA Board: Filmmaker Working on Country Music Documentary
Country Music Pride
- Listen Here: Marshmello & Kane Brown Release “One Thing Right” Collaboration
- Rolling Stone Names Emily Ann Roberts One Of The 20 Best Acts of CMA Fest
- Jon Pardi Sells Out Opening Night Of His Headlining Tour
- Granny Rich Breaks Record For Most Bottles Sold At Frugal MacDoogal!
- Tenille Arts Presents on ARDYs: A Radio Disney Music Celebration
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Conor Oberst playing in an old Presbyterian Cathedral
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Joe Satriani 30th anniversary tour
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The Ponderosa Stomp: America’s Roots Festival: Part I
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CJ RAMONE & Strung Out Talk About “It’s Not Dead Fest”
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The Final Track: Saying Goodbye to Recording Engineer Bob Sullivan
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Posts Tagged ‘Jim Simpson’
Father’s Day Special: An Interview With Jim Avett (Father to Scott and Seth Avett)
[Originally published on Father’s Day 2010, ATF decided to re-run this interview in honor of good fathers everywhere. Jim Avett is the father of Scott and Seth — you know, the Avett Brothers. Jim Avett’s latest album, Second Chance, was released in February 2012 and is available on iTunes. Enjoy.] When asked about his plans […]
The Brothers Comatose – “Respect The Van”
String bands are so prevalent these days that if you stand on any street corner in this country and throw a rock you just might hit one. Hailing from San Francisco, the Brothers Comatose are not just any old string band. Their latest and second full-length, Respect The Van, finds this exceptional quintet (brothers Alex […]
Johnny Cash Birthday Bash, Feb. 24-25 – Brooklyn
As reported in No Depression back in 2005: “One February night, along the half-abandoned Brooklyn waterfront, Johnny Cash had a birthday party. A couple hundred people had packed a former longeshoreman’s bar to hear the songs of Cash and his in-laws, the Carter Family. Outside, a steady stream of yellow cabs pulled up, delivering locals […]
Little John the Conqueror: An Interview with The Reverend John DeLore
Back in August, with Hurricane Irene bearing down on NYC and New England, Brooklyn singer/songwriter The Reverend John DeLore tweaked the lyrics to the old Leadbelly classic, “Goodnight Irene,” giving it a timely Gotham City theme, a musical plea to spare the island metropolis. DeLore recorded a solo acoustic version around 3pm on August 28, […]
Alexis Marceaux: “Orange Moon”
The follow-up to her 2009 debut, Dandelion, finds young NOLA native Alexis Marceaux maturing into a songwriting force to be reckoned with. The opening track of Orange Moon is a dramatic, emotionally charged homage to her late friend Leila Foret (to whom the album is also dedicated) that puts Marceaux’s powerful and gorgeous alto front […]
Album Review: NRBQ – “Keep This Love Goin'” – (Clang!)
Summer is here and NRBQ is back; that’s cause for celebration on both counts. Well known for unusual musical pairings and rollicking live shows, the band is better and looser than ever: Who else would adapt Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor” to a loping country song? That’s exactly what keyboardist/frontman Terry Adams […]
Live Review: Amos Lee – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA
In horn-rimmed glasses and a scruffy beard, Amos Lee looked more like the “cool” young English professor you had in college than a singer-songwriter with a number one album, Mission Bell. The academic look was fitting, actually, because on a recent Saturday night at Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, GA, Lee gave a master class in […]
Album Review: Over the Rhine – “The Long Surrender” – (Great Speckled Dog)
Karin Bergquist (half of the husband/wife duo at the core of Over the Rhine since 1991) could sing a grocery list and make it compelling, so just imagine her smoldering vocals and unique phrasing on such lines as “I sing the bebop apocalypse/Lean into you, God’s hands on my hips/Grip the midnight microphone/Steel every cell […]
Album Review: Bastard Lovechild of Rock n’ Roll – “Bim Bom” (Self Released)
Bastard Lovechild of Rock n’ Roll (BLORR) are the humbuckin’ pickups on an old reliable Telecaster and the bottleneck sliding up and down the fretboard. But they’re also the melancholy chords that take you back to a certain summer in a certain secret garden with a certain someone you lost long ago. Oh, and this […]
Elvis Costello: “National Ransom” Official Trailer
Elvis Costello has once again teamed up with producer T. Bone Burnett and the Sugarcanes, including Pete Thomas on drums and Jim Lauderdale — the best hair in Nashville, besides Marty Stuart — on guitar and harmony vocals. So, why review his latest album when we can just let the man, the legend, the artist, […]
Album Review: Led to Sea – “Into the Darkening Sky” – (Eleven Records)
From the opening pizzicato notes of “Dark Like Night,” Seattle-based violist/vocalist L. Alex Guy (Led to Sea is her solo project) guides us to a very organic world full of icy skies, rocky shores, rust, forests, and mountain streams heeding the the ocean’s call. Guy’s vocals are captivating — and she plays a mean glockenspiel. […]
Album Review: Sonny & The Sunsets – “Tomorrow Is Alright” – (Fat Possum)
If Lou Reed had lived in California, worked in a surf shop and smoked weed instead of bopping his crazy ass around NYC shooting heroin, he would have formed Sonny & The Sunsets instead of Velvet Underground. Honestly, we’re glad this did not occur, but you get the idea. Sonny Smith, the frontman of this […]
Free CD Giveaway: Robert Plant’s “Band of Joy” – (Rounder)
CONGRATS TO ADAM S. !! He won the Robert Plant CD! Everyone else can scroll to the end of this review to hear sample tracks from Band of Joy. There is, of course, that unmistakable voice. Call it The Mystical Pipes of Plant. Although slightly deepened with age, Robert Plant’s vocals still have that compelling […]
Album Review: Marshall Chapman – “Big Lonesome” (TallGirl Records)
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. — Marcel Proust Dedicated to […]
