So last night as I worked burning, washing and sieving asphalt and its component parts, I listened to two fine folk albums. The first was the latest release from Cal Scott Carved Wood Box and the second was Walk Along John from Canadian mandolin virtuoso John Reischman. Currently, Cal Scott’s album is number 29 on [...]
So today is Willie Nelson’s 80th birthday, Happy Birthday Willie! What can you say about this Americana Music Icon, way back when Willie, Waylon and a few others left the Nashville music scene behind for “Outlaw Music”. They blazed their own trails and music is the better for it! I picked up his career after [...]
So the other night I was listening to some music from the progressive bluegrass band Head for the Hills a four man band from Fort Collins, Colorado. From their Facebook page “Head for the Hills has created a sound that is all at once organic, precise, timeless, and brand-new,” as reported by the Missoula Independent. [...]
Ok so this morning was a folkie Texas Country music morning! I listened to the new album by a band called Left Arm Tan (which I usually have), Alticana and last years release from Texas singer-songwriter Matt Harlan and the Sentimentals Bow and Be Simple. You’ll be reading more about both of these great album [...]
My musical day today started with a mix of folk music from the iPod, first there was a song from Jesse Winchester’s Gentleman of Leisure album and then a Mark Erelli song, a track from Les Sampou, I haven’t heard her voice in a while! As my thoughts rambled through the list of musicians whose music [...]
So right behind Emmylou and Rodney on the Americana Charts is another duo, this one though is a married couple, Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison, each with their own careers, both just a little bit different in their approach to music. According to their website: (Kelly says) “I’m more rockabilly/60s, and he’s got that ‘70s Texas [...]
Last night when I went to run and errand and pick up a few things from Target (of all places) I decided to listen to a light bit of Americana music. I put the new album Old Yellow Moon from two of Americana’s greats Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell. For some reason I’ve been putting [...]
Ok so yesterday we had a family gathering to celebrate Easter and Andrew’s 31 birthday, which is today. Anyway about midway through the day, Andrew went upstairs and came down with three albums by RPWL which I mentioned in the other days post about Blind Ego! So on the way down to the job site [...]
So as I took the first steps of my run last night the following lyrics came from the latest album from Kacey Musgraves and I knew that this was an album that I was going to like: “Woke up this morning on the wrong side of rock bottom, I’m all out of pennies and the [...]
Many Folk and Americana singer-songwriters make the trek from the northeast to Austin Texas, the Americana music Mecca, to establish their music career. Case in point, former resident of Maine, Slaid Cleaves. Well, at least one current Texas native has made the reverse trip, Jarrod Dickenson as who now calls New York City home. This week [...]
