Tag Archives: Americana

Brosseau: Posthumous Success

Album out in UK 11May09 Continue reading

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Telluride Bluegrass Lineup

or JC’s snarky quips about people who practiced their instruments while he read books. Continue reading

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Truveo: Leftover Salmon & Telluride Bluegrass

“Years In Your Ears… a story of Leftover Salmon” on Current TV Continue reading

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Texcentric Show

Sand Sheff is a singing cowboy’s singing cowboy.  He’s been there and done that, from Music Row to Colorado’s Western Slope.  He had a great release a couple years ago called Free On This Mountain, and a trifecta follow-up of … Continue reading

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April Fool's

Cadillac Sky‘s “Inside Joke” Put together by the great Eric Maxwell and his Amazing Mind this video blazes new cinematic trails and basically, will “probably” upend the music video business. Shot back in October, we thought it had been lost … Continue reading

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T for Texas

Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933) was one of the first “stars” of country music.  Often known as the Singing Brakeman, Rodgers set the standard for future generations: Jimmie Rodgers’s first Blue Yodel, which became known as “Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for … Continue reading

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When You Say Nothing At All

Happy Valentine’s Day

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Alison and Robert Sand the Grammys

Last year I was Grumpy about the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. I can’t be grumpy this year. My gal Alison Krauss cleaned up. Producer T-Bone Burnett worked his magic on her duet album with Robert Plant, Raising Sand [ Rounder]. … Continue reading

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The Day The Music Died

Today is the 50th anniversary of The Day The Music Died.  On 3 February 1959, in a field outside Clear Lake, Iowa, a small plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, crashed and killed everyone … Continue reading

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At the Root of the Music

Uncle Tupelo is the fulcrum of my ROOTS music universe. All things good, bad and ugly; happy, melancholy and sad, flow thru the music and the people and the places of the boys from Southern Illinois. The melancholy is mine–youth … Continue reading

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