Originally from Belgium, and citing influences as varied as the Decemberists’ alternative folk, Brit alternative bands Placebo and Coldplay, and REM, Carl Durant writes and plays...
Has it really been 26 years since the Cowboy Junkies released The Trinity Session? For those unfamiliar with the minor-classic album, it was recorded in a...
A music man his entire life, who studied classical music and jazz and whose performance career includes playing the trombone and being an ungonged contestant on...
Few guitarists fail to cite Django Reinhardt as an influence since his passing 60 years ago at age 43, and the Gypsy Swing Cats are no...
“There’s nobody that makes me feel the way you do… you’re like a dream come true…” You can’t be earnest about love and coy about it...
It’s been years, decades actually, since Fiona Ritchie’s The Thistle and Shamrock shared some of the weekend programming time on KPBS. After all these years, it’s...
Singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle — son of Steve Earle and namesake of Townes Van Zandt — has a lot of tradition to live up to. And...
Sometimes the best measure of good country-rock music is how much fun it is to listen to, rather than whether it is necessarily great art. Mudgrass...
The cover art photo on Favorites by the Charles Burton Blues Band features the San Diego guitarist/vocalist and his rhythm section walking, with distinctively Scandinavian buildings...
