[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/75863733″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Nora Jane Struthers, lately of Bearfoot Bluegrass Band, is out and about with her upcoming solo album. So out with some old (music) to make way for the new (music) due out mid-April. NoiseTrade Exclusive Music Give Away! MARCH 19, 2013 To celebrate the release of my upcoming album […]
Acoustic, Alt.Country, Bluegrass and the Texas Blues—JC’s Americana Turns Ten
Alison Krauss’ Choctaw Hayride instrumental sprang to life through the monitor speakers in the studio at 7pm Mountain Time on the 1st Tuesday in March, 2003. It was the first week on the air for KRFC-FM in Fort Collins, Colorado, and my first time on the air, as a volunteer DJ. The folks behind KRFC […]
Bearfoot, Back at Avo’s
Who says you can’t go home again? [v=skL54QMqXsI] It’s been almost a decade since I had the pleasure of dining at Avogadro’s Number in Old Town, Fort Collins. But when I walked back in the door the other night it was just like yesterday. Local free “newspapers” still line the wall. The staff behind the counter […]
A Planner’s Guide to The Hunger Games
A good story sets the scene as a supporting character, as much as a necessary backdrop. Few stories are good stories. Most stories—like many of our modern lives—could take place anywhere, anytime. There is no ‘there’ there. The Hunger Games, which reached the big screen in the U.S. this week, is a good story. Its […]
Crowell & Gauthier To Play Benefit for Americana Music Assn.
An interesting upcoming event: BLACKBERRY FARM AND AMERICANA MUSIC ASSOCIATION PRESENT RODNEY CROWELL AND MARY GAUTHIER ON MARCH 24, 2012 WALLAND, TN – Smoky Mountain luxury property and 62-room Relais & Châteaux resort, Blackberry Farm has again partnered with the Americana Music Association to bring a first-class musical experience to its guests on March 24, featuring renowned singer/songwriters Rodney Crowell and Mary Gauthier. […]
JohnSmith in Windom
[v=VWrpFP1WBeY] I was going to see folk singer JohnSmith play the Carson Meeting House at Delft tonight, just north of Windom, in the Prairie Wind Folk & Bluegrass series. After slogging home from my boy’s basketball tourney Saturday afternoon in 1/4-mile or less visibility, I let the blowing snow win and stayed safe at home. The […]
Another List Posing as a Post: My Most @Lastfm Spins of 2011
[v=QXSyJwDQ2a8] Last.fm is a nifty little online music community, based in London with users all over the world. It started simply enough—users install a utility in their PC music player (Windows Media, iTunes, etc) to “scrobble” their music real-time, sending data on artist/track to Last.fm servers for charting. Everybody gets a Billboard chart of their […]
JC’s Americana Top Tunes of 2011
[v=2-0drZqMdR4] Authenticity is not necessarily the sole province of the author. Rather it seems writers/composers/architects/painters perform most spectacularly in the theater of the imagination—the farther they stretch, the higher they soar. Yet I remain fixated on the authenticity of the singer-songwriter, the original artist delivering the original performance in the original package. I mock and […]
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