[v=d3_Q3c6Q7TA] My friends in the alt-country (neo-country?) band Halden Wofford & the Hi-Beams are playing the Colorado Governor’s Inauguration at the Fillmore in Denver next week. Their release Sinners & Saints was one of my favorites of 2010. W00t! for the band. Join John Hickenlooper and Joe Garcia for a non-traditional inaugural dinner with live music and […]
Be Here to Love Me…for free
the idea that a programming director is going to slot in my particular interest at a time I personally find particularly convenient is, at face value, laughable…
JC's Americana Fav Albums 2010
[v=JrDM5zdzxAs] Cut back on my music purchases this year (and didn’t get in too many of the artist free previews), so the list is a bit more mainstream Nashville than usual but just decided not to stress about it this year. Still some good sounds out there. Here’s my favorite albums I heard in 2010, […]
Dailey & Vincent Bring it Home at IBMA
Link: Bluegrass duo Dailey & Vincent did very well at the International Bluegrass Music Association awards this week, bringing home Entertainer of the Year and Vocal Group of the Year, and Album of the Year for Dailey & Vincent Sing The Statler Brothers. The song “Elizabeth” was also nominated for Song of the Year, and […]
When the World Stopped Turning
[v=Tq8PBdR3pg4] Alan Jackson Where Were You? “Eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty…” —Andrew Jackson, 1837 Never Forget 9.11.2001 .
September, It Has Come
[v=GLSrTguB23I] There’s a chill in the air that would tell us September has come even without a calendar on the wall, or on our watch, or (these days) on our phone. It’s easy to feel the melancholy of the season. Where did summer go? What did the dreams of days of sunshine and laughter bring? […]
Markus Rill: My riff on a Tweet
[v=_fj0ZiK168Y] I stumbled on Markus Rill this week. Or rather, I should say, Markus Rill stumbled across me, over on Twitter. I tweeted about a European alt.country festival and he tweeted back. I checked out his links…. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams) He’s good. Reminds me of Tom Waits, what little I […]
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?
[v=G5j9GZMcEOA] I’m really feeling this tune today. This week. This year. It’s the same old tune, fiddle and guitar Where do we take it from here Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars We’ve been the same way for years We need to change Some days I’m feeling Hank. Some days I’m feeling it Waylon. Some […]
Festival Season in a Northern State of Mind
[v=-4l8I-ejQ1M] Been awhile hibernating in my Northern State, but soon I hope festival season will be upon us. I’ve been drooling over the line-up at Merle-fest, coming up soon. Soon as in Southern State height-of-spring end-of-April optimism that a Northern Boy like me can not fully understand nor appreciate. April in the North is still a […]
The Elders, 1849
[v=GgLhlgROtPY] A bit o’ St. Patrick’s Day treat. This is The Elders, 1849, at Iowa Irish Fest last year. Buy it here. 1849 Lyrics by Mike Bliss ©2000 They traveled across the angry sea in 1849 With all that they could carry They traveled sick, they traveled blind Their home, the starving island, just a […]
