Your Front Row Seat To Americana Music
“If my guts had a landscape, it would be Prince Edward Island,” Rose Cousins says with a laugh of her seaside Canadian upbringing. “The further I get away from how I grew up, like thinking it wasn’t that interesting, I see how special it was now that I’m older and have been traveling all over,”... Continue Reading →
“We knew we were going to be good friends,” says Jack Sandham of his bandmate, Wednesday Lyle. The pair met when Sandham crashed a party at Lyle’s house, and together, they formed British roots rock duo Cowbell. “You know when you meet somebody and you hit it off really well, you have good arguments about... Continue Reading →
“It was 1991. I had just moved back to Chicago, and I was driving back from West Virgina in a 1959 Chevy Apache pickup, and I was living in the back of it,” reminisces modern vintage rock n’ roller Jake La Botz, as he recalls how me met friend, producer, and Hi-Style Records founder Jimmy... Continue Reading →
“When I was kid, my granddad showed me some gospel music licks on the guitar,” recalls blue-eyed soul man BJ Wilbanks. “I got interested in playing, but didn’t take it seriously until I was a teenager, and I started writing, kind of out of necessity for me. It was like therapy for heartbreak and all... Continue Reading →
Chris Shiflett, lead guitarist for legendary band Foo Fighters, has parlayed his rock n’ roll prowess into West Coast Town, his third solo album—a countrified collection of ten tracks produced by Dave Cobb, which follows his last offering of classic honky tonk tune covers, All Hat and No Cattle, released in 2013. The gates are... Continue Reading →
It has been three years since Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May’s last studio release. Drawing on her personal changes during that time--primarily the end of her eighteen year marriage--May has crafted an intimate and revealing work with her upcoming fifth album Life. Love. Flesh. Blood. With a powerhouse assembly of industry talent including the legendary T... Continue Reading →
On her upcoming album, From Where I Started, Seattle singer-songwriter Sera Cahoone shares a revealing emotional journey of love and loss. While many will recognize Cahoone from her influential work in the indie rock scene as the former drummer for Band of Horses, listeners wi instantly feel the indelible link she has to her childhood... Continue Reading →
California music-maker David Luning had always been drawn to the cinematic—so much so that he ventured to Berklee College of Music to study film scoring. After two years in college, however, a chance hang with friends threw an enormous, John Prine-sized wrench in his best laid plans. “Two friends invited me over to hang out... Continue Reading →
“I found myself in a scary place,” recalls Americana songstress Beth Bombara of her unexpected and almost two-year battle with debilitating depression. The normally upbeat multi-instrumentalist and perennial side-woman, who had been touring in bands since she was 16 years old, woke up one day and was unable to function. “I haven’t struggled with depression... Continue Reading →
“I look around and all I see is flood,” says iconic entertainer John Schneider, whose latest album chronicles his experiences during the devastating flood that ransacked his southern Louisiana community last August. “We received 36 inches of rain in 10 hours; the ground was saturated, and there was no where for the water to go.... Continue Reading →