In the autumn of 1980, I was 18 and living in an apartment by myself for the first time. Looking back, there have actually been very...
It’s 6:15 on a Tuesday morning. Past the desert valley the mountains rise up into their own isolation, stretching themselves awake as the first light begins...
Gabriel Sundy was in a quandary. The musician and composer was racking his brains trying to figure out what kind of music it was on a...
Charlie Marks has a new CD, Honey Baby, a collection of 13 traditional country blues and one original played by Marks live in the studio, just...
Although they were both born in Oklahoma (Joe in Guthrie on July 9, 1915, and Jimmy in Newby on October 14, 1922), band leaders Joe and...
Tony Rice died in December at the age of 69. He is considered by many to have been the greatest and most influential guitar player in...
The new album by Chuck Charles is Hiya, and by way of background Charles is Charlie Recksieck, a multi-instrumentalist who has been playing keys and singing...
The first phonograph records that I was even consciously aware of when I was about four or five years old were by Roy Acuff and the...
There’s a telling scene in Don’t Look Back, D.A. Pennebaker’s grainy 1967 documentary of Bob Dylan’s stormy 1965 tour of England. Dylan is in a hotel,...
