[v=3skEpvi09Pc] NPR streamed this year’s Americana Music Association Awards live from Nashville. When I clicked the link on my iPad it came up a Flash thing so I skipped it and read a book. Probably a good choice. As I saw the winners roll by on Twitter later in the evening, I had a growing […]
RIP SRV
[v=yjoWXOrowCQ] Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Alpine Valley Music Theater East Troy WI, August 26, 1990. Voodoo Child (Slight Return). SRV’s last song… Coulda, shoulda, almost woulda been there—I was in a hurry in a rush, on my journey way our West—21 years ago on the day, another Bluesman was called home. .
You Are Wanted By The Police And My Wife Thinks You’re Dead
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaEzT5MusFs] The indefeatable undefinable Jr. Brown. Any resemblance to any ex-sweethearts or wives is purely by chance… If you’re in Austin, Junior Brown and his own particular brand of Bakersfield steel guitar is playing the Continental Club tomorrow night. He’s at the Minnesota State Fair 2nd & 3rd of September up in St. Paul. . […]
Half-way Home: Audrey (and Faith and me) at Forty
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CjCuY1b_-U] I’m a long-time fan of performing songwriter Audrey Auld and her blend of Australia and Appalachia, Okie and Outback. When Audrey’s around, you know Bob Wills is still the king. I’m a bigger fan of Audrey Auld making fun of Nashville… where she recently relocated from Northern California. We’re of similar age if not of […]
Shooter—4th of July
[v=7RH5UEwO5us] …And I’m looking at you With the world in the rear view. You were pretty as can be Sitting in the front seat Looking at me Telling me you love me And you’re happy to be with me On the 4th of July… -Shooter Jennings, “4th of July” Shooter has some big music shoes […]
Rebecca Folsom @KRFC
Colorado performing artist Rebecca Folsom appeared on air at KRFC-FM earlier this year. She’s played around with Celeste Krenz and Liz Barnez, great folky/americana-ish gals. Good stuff. I borrowed this from KRFC-FM Live at Lunch page. Hope they don’t mind: “When Rebecca sinks her teeth into a song, an emotional intensity emerges that is both deeply […]
If I Needed You
[v=bl41lqUFKS4] If I needed you would you come to me, Would you come to me, and ease my pain? If you needed me I would come to you. I’d swim the seas for to ease your pain In the night forlorn the morning’s born And the morning shines with the lights of love. You will […]
Drive By Truckers: Go Go Boots
[v=kvJ-lWOZMYg] Roots rock band Drive-By Truckers drops their new album Go-Go Boots next week (release 14.2.11 U.K.; 2/15/11 U.S.) just in time for Valentine’s Day. They have posted a series of videos on Youtube ahead of the event. As usual, it looks like the Truckers have put together an uplifting selection of affirmational material from […]
Live from Mountain Stage
[v=khsmZbaj0xQ] I have enjoyed the Mountain Stage radio show for a long time, but it’s not broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio. The Mountain Stage Podcast has come to the rescue, featuring an expanded version (sometimes close to 3 hours a week) of the radio show delivered direct to iTunes. The artists vary a bit—recent artists […]
Happy Birthday, Dolly
[v=Or_w9VQzmio] Happy Birthday, Dolly! Wikipedia says: Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music. In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she remains one of the most-successful female artists in the history of the country genre which garnered her the title of ‘The Queen […]
