Category: Americana

Americana | February 23, 2020

The Delicate Balance of Patterson Hood

Looking at things from a bird’s eye view — maybe one of an Osprey or Cooper’s Hawk sailing over his home in Oregon — Patterson Hood has a damn good […]

Americana | February 12, 2020

The Simple Luminescence Of The Lumineers

It’s funny how something so big can at least start, well, pretty simply. Especially when it involves one of modern music’s most successful and popular current bands, The Lumineers. The […]

Americana | November 29, 2019

Steve Berlin & Los Lobos: Wolves Bond For Life

When Steve Berlin was honing his killer sax chops in his native Philadephia in the 70’s and 80’s, he was ripping it up with bands like Jimmy and the Rhythm […]

Americana | November 5, 2019

The Intense Beauty of Allison Moorer’s ‘Blood’

For many people, words can take on several different meanings. For singer/songwriter Allison Moorer, the word “blood” does just that, and so much more. Yes, she wrote a beautiful song […]

Americana | November 4, 2019

John Hiatt’s Incomparable Legacy Of Words

The wonder and fascination of John Hiatt‘s seemingly endless supply of timeless songs is no secret to those who relish, revere and respect his songwriting and storytelling. And that’s a […]

Americana | September 29, 2019

Marc Cohn: It’s Called Respect

Respect. It’s not automatic, it’s not a given, it’s not just handed to you, especially in the music business. You have to earn it, often with alot of hard work, […]

Americana | May 28, 2019

John McEuen’s Blissful Folk Music Life

It’s been fifty-plus years since John McEuen basically “replaced” Jackson Browne in the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and the NGDB started crafting their indelible folk country rock sound, most famously […]

Americana | March 21, 2019

Mary Gauthier’s Unexpected Pleasures

Mary Gauthier has to feel that life is full of the gloriously and humbly unexpected. Twenty-nine years after she stopped drinking cold turkey and twenty-two after she wrote her first […]

Americana | March 16, 2019

Luther Dickinson: Livin’ The Dream

If there was ever a rock star basking in a musical heaven-on-earth right now, it’s got to be Luther Dickinson. The renowned blues-Americana-rock guitarist/singer/songwriting maven has pretty much got it […]

Americana | February 10, 2019

The Krickets’ Healing Sounds

A local band from the Florida panhandle survives two different kinds of storms while helping their community heal. Last year when the residents of Mexico Beach, Port St Joe and […]