If bluegrass music is changing, are the changes good or bad? These are profoundly important questions. Let’s see if we can answer them. The changing face of bluegrass. In many...
Hello Troubadourians! Last month was the second installment about giving guitar lessons to a friend from work and, more significantly, teaching him how to be a...
I’m a lucky guy! When I’m home, I spend my days producing amazing, original music from powerfully magical, bad ass musicians and songwriters! I spend my...
This time out: We chat with Chris Difford of legendary British combo Squeeze, take a listen to the latest album from the Zombies, and check out...
CLIFFHANGER!! 48 hours from the time Ed and I stood watching our pet recording project metaphorically careening down a darkened alley, Bill Ray had emerged from...
Music is a time art. The same way that painters, sculptors, and architects “adorn” space, musicians decorate time. You may have heard the saying, “It’s the...
Happy almost-fall, y’all! Growing up in a small farm town, the transition from summer to autumn has always been my favorite time of year. Sure, the...
There are many references to why the blues feels so good. Sad songs can say things that are deep and poignant with a feeling of ease....
As I head into my 20th year captaining “Listen Local”, I had planned on writing a wonderful retrospective of the past few decades but as I...
