Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Nathaniel Rateliff had a shot at being the next chart-topper like Chris Daughtry or Chad Kroeger. Instead, the Denver-based singer-songwriter chose a very different path, one that could make him the next underground hero like Bon Iver or Iron & Wine.
The Music Digest (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Armed with a knack for storytelling and cowgirl logic, Eliza Gilkyson's music evokes the spirit of Lucinda Williams, Shawn Colvin and Nanci Griffith yet spins a sound distinctly its own. Cassandra Wilson turns out hypnotic African beats meets bluesy swing on Loverly.
Paramus Post (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Bring a Surprising Mix of Jazz, Bluegrass, Bebop and More … to the stage at bergenPAC - Saturday November 21st - 8:00 PM With a total of 11 Grammy wins and a whopping 27 nominations, banjo big-hit Béla Fleck and the Flecktones bring their multifaceted and seemingly unrivaled sound to the stage at bergenPAC on November 21st, at 8 p.m. Since the beginning, Fleck bounced between a handful...
SLV Dweller (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Voted #1 a cappella band in the U.S. in 2007, the four members of Moira Smiley and VOCO create post-folk, improvisation-built songs while digging into old Americana and Eastern European sounds, and they are coming to Alamosa, Col. on Wed., Nov. 11, 7:30 p.m., courtesy of the Alamosa Live Music Association (ALMA) and the Adams State College music department. Admission is $14 for the general public,...
Terrierman's Daily Dose (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Nanci Griffith peforms the old Stephen Foster classic "Hard Times Come Again No More." More Nanci Griffith here and here . . From: Terrierman's Daily Dose To order the book. web site.
Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The legendary singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith has a new album called The Loving Kind and she's offering a free download of the title song about a Louisiana court judge's decision to back an interracial marriage. Richard and Mildred Loving were a married white man and black woman who were forced to leave their native state of Virginia under threat of arrest because of the state’s Jim Crow law...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The title track of Nanci Griffith's new CD, "The Loving Kind," about the Loving v. Virginia case that ended the ban on interracial marriagesin 1967, became oddly topical in 2009 last week when a Louisiana court judge banned a such a marriage. In protest, Griffith is making the sweet country-folk ballad a free download on her web site www.NanciGriffith.com , for the next 30 days. Griffith...
Monkeyfister (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
A lovely duet. Adam Duritz was in a deep depression when he met Nanci Griffith and Brian Claflin, who helped him out of it. Together, they wrote this song. I got to meet Brian Claflin at the National Storytellers Festival. His dad is the legendary storyteller, Willy Claflin. To Top Of Main Page
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The Corduroy Road offers a fresh take at bluegrass and old-time Southern rock. The Athens, Georgia by-way-of central Kentucky quartet the Corduroy Road blends bluegrass and old-time Southern rock for an Americana flavor that stands out from the rest on Love is a War. Drew Carman (vocals, banjo, harmonica) and Dylan Solise (guitar, vocals) layer rich, multi-part vocal harmonies, percussive strumming,...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
COUNTRY star Nanci Griffith is set to play the Capital next year.
[last year's girl] (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
September this year marks ten years since I made my first, tentative and over-sharey, foray into blogging. I hope you’ll forgive a little self-indulgence on my part, but I’d like to do something to celebrate a pretty significant milestone. I’ve hit upon the idea of publishing some selected takes from my archives – there’s a [...]
Fat Boy Slim and the Blue Horizon (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
This isn't really much of a post, relying as heavily as it does on the reflected glory of one much more talented than me. Why bother then? Well, as it happens I was moved to post this beautifully written song after reading todays' entry by Janet Weight-Reed who blogs here too - rather more frequently and interestingly than I can usually manage. Still, I possess the "calm confidence of a christian...
department63 (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
I wouldn't say I'm on a roll, but I am determined to get the number of posts for this month up to a respectable number. We took a trip out today, thinking it was going to be clear, but we were wrong. We did manage a circuit of Perthshire and took in Lochs Lubnaig & Earn and got thoroughly soaked in the process. It wasn't the dust on the sensor I had to clear from this image, but the rain from...
Atomic Librarian (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
NPR's Marketplace devoted this week's show to the economic troubles of Cleveland. Fresh off that bit o' depression, I read how Phoenix's light rail is a boon for partiers (hey, they're spending money at least. Cleveland and Phoenix are like two sides of the same coin--sure, Cleveland's an older town and Phoenix is shockingly new, but they both have sprawl, and need more diversified economies. But the...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
And the winner is .... Buddy Miller The singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer took home a box of trophies at the 8th annual Americana Music Association Honors & Awards Show Thursday night at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. He won Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year, among others, so we can expect him as a Grammy favorite early next year (not really). Among those performing...
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