Your Front Row Seat To Americana Music
Prolific singer-songwriter BJ Barham is hitting the road this summer on The Great 48 Tour--carrying just his guitar and his songs, Barham will perform acoustic shows in 48 states across the United States, which brings him to Nashville's City Winery on Monday, May 15th. The American Aquarium frontman is touring in support of his debut... Continue Reading →
At her recent show on the elevated stage in the relaxed atmosphere of Nashville’s City Winery, Tift Merritt embraced that spotlight to put her ever-genuine personality on display. Merritt kept it minimal—a choice which could prove risky for some artists, but a natural one given Merritt’s vast and varied talents--with pedal steel master Eric Heywood as the... Continue Reading →
To chat with David Bromberg, decorated multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, and master of all things stringed, is to enjoy a rich slice of American music history; over a storied solo career spanning four decades, Bromberg has collaborated with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Emmylou Harris, Jerry Garcia, Bonnie Raitt, Carly Simon, and The Eagles, to name a... Continue Reading →
Josh Ritter made a return to Nashville recently for a sold out show at the warm and beautifully intimate City Winery. Ritter, currently on a tour entitled “Works in Progress” with the intentions of road-testing new material, did just that. As wine glasses began to empty and the massive crowd funneled to their seats, Ritter... Continue Reading →
“We haven’t been to Nashville in a while; our first Nashville show, we played a little club in 1989, we were drawing a crowd because we were the buzz band at the moment. All the press was there, and we’d been warned that they were pretty critical. We were so nervous,” recalls Alan Anton, bassist... Continue Reading →
“It’s fascinating,” says traveling troubadour and lyrical mastermind Jeffrey Foucault, of the fact that Americana has become “a thing” over the last few years. “In the mid-90s, you rarely heard an acoustic guitar on the radio, you never heard it on television or in commercials. It’s not that people weren’t traveling around playing acoustic guitar,... Continue Reading →
American Aquarium frontman BJ Barham took the City Winery stage with little fanfare recently, in support of of his critically-acclaimed and intensely personal solo debut, Rockingham, which was released in August. Immediately, Barham began singing in his raspy croon, “You were outta my league/And I was runnin’ outta time/To string together words that were gonna... Continue Reading →
American Aquarium frontman and fellow North Carolina State University graduate, BJ Barham, had every intention of becoming a lawyer. “Music kind of got in the way of that,” he says in his endearingly familiar North Carolina accent. In fact, Barham’s path has been paved with the unexpected. After releasing albums and touring for over seven... Continue Reading →
Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist and producer Larry Campbell's childhood playground came with a view of the 59th Street bridge in the Big Apple; actress and musician Teresa Williams grew up in the midst of a West Tennessee cotton patch. “We met when she hired me to play pedal steel in a band for a gig in New... Continue Reading →
Gathered together around a microphone or two, Darlingside, masters of vocal harmonies and conquerors of all things stringed, dazzled and delighted a rapt City Winery audience; currently on tour with Mexo-Americana group David Wax Museum, the busy Boston folk quartet brought "more Doug" to the Music City. Friend and new Nashvillian, Americana songstress Caitlin Canty, joined the... Continue Reading →