I picked up a stack of CDs from the library to study like homework. Here’s how we came out: Jacob Dylan, Women and Country (produced by T Bone Burnett) Justin Townes Earle, Midnight at the Movies Justin Townes Earle, Harlem River Blues Waylon Jennings, Greatest Hits Josh Ritter, the Animal Years Roy Clark, Greatest [...] Continue Reading »
15 albums from the library
310 artists I’m listening to, and a little about why
6Mediocrity is easy and abundant. It’s getting harder than ever to find good art, which is why its evermore important to try to make it, and then to shout-out-about-it when you find it. Some good music has found me and I want to share. A few on the list you already know, but they had [...] Continue Reading »
scenes from an italian restaurant
0(by Levon who is listening to Josh Ritter “So Runs the World Away”) With the Wired Ride Shop open, we’ve got to get going. In the morning we head to the hill in Tazewell, VA to stay awhile and see Grandmother. She lives alone in the house where she raised 9 kids and Ashley grew [...] Continue Reading »
album review: Soh-Jurn “Songs of the Sea”
2Soh- Jurn is Bristol’s Richie Haines and Amy Wallace. This album came my way last night when I met Richie at a coffeeshop. There was a piano in the back and we goofed through a couple songs together and then swapped CDs. His floored me. If you listen you’ll hear a story that will remind [...] Continue Reading »