Your Front Row Seat To Americana Music
For most casual fans of music, the forty-five minutes that a band spends on the stage is all they can see. However, when the guitar cases are closed and the venue’s floor is littered with empty beer cans and trash, most bands load their gear into the van and return back to their normal lives.... Continue Reading →
For most casual fans of music, the forty-five minutes that a band spends on the stage is all they can see. However, when the guitar cases are closed and the venue’s floor is littered with empty beer cans and trash, most bands load their gear into the van and return back to their normal lives.... Continue Reading →
The American South is a magical place. If you aren’t from here, put your kickstand down for a minute and allow me to educate you, beloved reader. Do we have our dark, shameful moments in the pages of our country’s history? Beyond a shadow of a doubt. Atrocities have occurred here in the struggle for... Continue Reading →
A year ago, Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean, otherwise known as London roots-rock duo Ida Mae, pulled up stakes and relocated to Nashville. Was that scary? “Yes!” Turpin says with a laugh. “It was less scary since it was the two of us together. It wasn’t until we landed that we realized how far away... Continue Reading →
Rockabilly music has always enjoyed an outlaw flair that sets it apart from its diverse underlying elements. Too rocking for country music, too twangy for rock music, but together just the right amount of toe-tapping rhythms and jumpy blues riffs to get any room hopping. The artists and fans thrive in the originality of the... Continue Reading →
When it comes to achievement, hard work will get you there quicker than wishing for success any old day, and sometimes, hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. Think about that one for a second. Speaking of talent, East Nashville-based Southern rock/alt-country outfit Flying Buffaloes has talent in spades, and after a couple... Continue Reading →
At any given record shop, you can find the volumes of music left behind by amazing musicians who took an ill-fated leap of faith into the spotlight of fronting an album. Some the whispers of faded dreams, others parables on vanity, they haunt the dusty bargain CD bins and record crates. However, some who are... Continue Reading →
“Always choose love.” These words of wisdom were bestowed upon Mary Bragg by her grandmother when Bragg was fresh out of high school and torn between spending the summer with a potential church camp inspired romance—or make her first trip to Nashville. At her recent concert celebrating the release of her latest album Violets As... Continue Reading →
Over the last year, Ruston Kelly has rapidly transformed from a critically-acclaimed rising star to a household name. During that time, conversations about Kelly have taken two paths— redemption is always topic number one. Skim his bio, listen to any of his songs, leaf through a couple of tabloids, and the stories quickly reveal that... Continue Reading →
“There’s a great big world to find out beyond that setting sun, but you always remember where you came from,” sings Andrew Capra, the creative mastermind behind Nashville-based jangly, heartland rock outfit Stepsons, in the band’s new single “Where You Came From.” “’Where You Came From’ is a song written about a road trip through... Continue Reading →