Interview with YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND Alan Sculley January 21, 2016 Features, Music 9 Comments YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND Adam Aijala says Yonder Mountain String Band has never been a group to plot out its career – or just about anything the group does. To hear him tell it, there was no strategy...
GRACE POTTER // KICKING UP THE DUST Alan Sculley January 6, 2016 Features, Music, Reviews 14 Comments GRACE POTTER // KICKING UP THE DUST During the two years that went into making her new album, “Midnight,” Grace Potter realized a game-changing truth about herself. “I figured out that I’m here for...
Interview with Dale Waltson By L. Kent Wolgamott Alan Sculley November 30, 2015 Features, Music 13 Comments Interview with Dale Waltson By L. Kent Wolgamott For years, Texas honky tonker Dale Watson watched as his brand of country music was pushed to the margins in Nashville as the Music City labels pumped out...
GALACTIC // A NEW LIGHT Alan Sculley November 17, 2015 Features, Music 13 Comments GALACTIC // A NEW LIGHT If you’re a fan of Galactic’s early albums, sax player Ben Ellman thinks you’re going to like what you hear from the group’s new album, “into The Deep.” “It’s a...
REVEREND HORTON HEAT // GENERAL ZANINESS Alan Sculley October 26, 2015 Music 14 Comments REVEREND HORTON HEAT // GENERAL ZANINESS Fans of the Reverend Horton Heat haven’t exactly been flooded with new music from the band lately. After cranking out eight studio albums over the first 13 years...
JASON ISBELL // A CHANGED MAN Alan Sculley October 26, 2015 Features, Music 13 Comments JASON ISBELL // A CHANGED MAN When Jason Isbell walks on stage these days, fans are quite literally seeing a changed man. In January 2012, Isbell went into rehab to kick an alcohol addiction that had been...
CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD Alan Sculley October 14, 2015 Features, Music 10 Comments CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD In this day and age, lots of bands get their start through social media – posting self-made videos of songs on You Tube, while using other sites, such as Facebook and Myspace, to...
Interview with RHIANNON GIDDENS Alan Sculley September 16, 2015 Music 7 Comments Interview with RHIANNON GIDDENS If there’s one word Rhiannon Giddens detests, it’s genres. Classically trained in opera at Oberlin University, she moved on to a whole different style of music in becoming...
An interview with LADY ANTEBELLUM Alan Sculley August 27, 2015 Features, Music 9 Comments An interview with LADY ANTEBELLUM Dave Haywood, guitarist/keyboardist for Lady Antebellum, readily says the kind of songs that come most naturally to the group are ballads and mid-tempo songs. That has...
INTERVIEW WITH DRIVE BY TRUCKERS Alan Sculley August 18, 2015 Features, Music 8 Comments Interview with Drive By Truckers The last time the Drive-By Truckers went into the studio to record new music - a session that yielded two albums, 2010’s “The Big To-Do” and 2011’s “Go-Go...
