What makes The Low Highway a near instant classic is its natural progression in Steve Earle's musical staying power.
Steve Earle was celebrating in Denver on Saturday night, and it had nothing to do with the Mile-High puff daddies hanging out near Colfax Avenue just ...
Steve Earle is a folk poet with a world-class reputation -- he's the successor to Woody Guthrie, with 15 CDs in his catalogue. And he's omni-talented: He's written a novel, stories and a memoir.
If you are scratching your head and asking 'Who the hell is Tim Blake Nelson?', the long answer is you already know his work and the short answer is: He's the guy in O Brother Where Art Thou? who isn't George Clooney or John Turturro.
If the twenty-something woman strumming an acoustic guitar on the corner of 4th and Congress was singing for her supper Thursday, she undoubtedly went home hungry that night. Folks, welcome to Austin, Texas, Live Music Capital of the World.
TOP 5 FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 21 1. Improvapalooza 2012 At Source The five-day improv festival begins today. Nine new pieces from the Washington Impro...
TOP 5 FOR MONDAY, AUGUST 20 1. "Belief + Doubt" At Hirshhorn The new Barbara Kruger exhibit opens today. Gigantic, Orwellian messages that have t...
As a cub reporter for the trade magazine Record World, I got to cover one of the most thrilling music-related events of that spring -- Elvis's press conference at Madison Square Garden on June 9th, just before his first-ever New York performances.
After four songs, Los Lobos spokesman Cesar Rosas, who had the unenviable task of zapping some energy into the crowd, said, "Can y'all breathe all right?... I need some tequila."
The custodian of The Band's music was Levon Helm. It could be no other way. The drummer is the literal heartbeat of a band. Levon was that, and more.
You've been charged with good taste in music. The only way to avoid hard time is to listen to this playlist. Jokes aside, between David Crosby's ni...
Warren Hellman devoted the first half of his life to finance--becoming the youngest partner ever at Lehman Brothers before staking off on his own at t...
It was hardly a surprise that my favorite songwriter/actor/novelist Steve Earle got involved in activism surrounding the execution of Troy Davis by the state of Georgia last week.
Shannon McNally could be like one of those characters in Treme, the critically acclaimed HBO series about New Orleans musicians surviving in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She already knows the part by heart.
Steve Earle played "This City" for a New Orleans audience last night, telling us a song is done when you play it for the people you wrote it for. "Now...
"The first time I played here, which was about 15 years ago I guess, I looked up during the set and saw the waterfall and forgot the entire second verse of the song I was playing."
Chick Corea's new album, Forever, is a two-disc set, with the first disc being acoustic, and the second disc with a full band and guests. For the first disc, I asked him if it was a return to Return To Forever.
Music festivals are much like the Boy Scouts in that it's very important to be prepared. Here's how we have prepared ourselves for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, June 16th-19th.
Here's what's on our radar this week--everything from great summer reads to important human rights issues that we thought you'd want to know about. It...
This weekend, you will dance. We don't care that it's "cold" outside and you don't feel like it. With great music from the 323 to the 310, you have no...
Steve Earle spoke to me from Liuzza's in New Orleans, where he had just ordered a Po Boy, and where he is currently filming the second season of HBO's Treme.
Singer-songwriter Allison Moorer talks about her new album,Crows, the impending birth of her first child and the state of country music.
