Happy birthday/April Fool's to LGM co-founder R.M.F. Speaking of the embedded band, djw and the author happened to be at a conference in Portland for a DBT gig at the Crystal Ballroom last week, the first one I've seen since Shonna Tucker's departure. Despite two...
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This is very sad. Scruggs was one of the last connections to the first days of bluegrass and one of the most innovative, not only in his style of banjo.
Just because George Jones is awesome. This is not stated often enough.
Christgau with an extended essay on one of America's most excellent and underrated bands, Wussy. Who knew anything good could come from Cincinnati?
Will Wilkinson writes about country music and, as is typical when anyone tries to connect it with politics, it's pure projection. Bathing it in the kind of pseudo-scientific data points.
It is with great sadness that I have to write this obituary for the great Alaskan songwriter Buddy Tabor. It was only with my link to his song "3 Strikes.
This seems a good time to post this song by the great and utterly unknown songwriter Buddy Tabor, who paints houses in Juneau and writes amazing songs. This is not really one of my favorites, but it does remind that Rush is a horrible person...
It's not like we don't already know that the legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter is amazing. But he's also super cool for playing a big role in the American Federation.
You know the dilemma, which we may call the Polanski Problem -- what do you do when you find out that a gifted artist who has done a lot of.
Read about the new crime wave sweeping America's tubas: BELL, Calif. — When thieves broke into the high school music room here this week, they cut through the bolts on all the storage lockers and ripped two doors off their frames. But they didn’t touch...
...I suggest we add "conservatives rapping": After all, there's nothing wrong with a "knicker" joke among a room of wealthy white Republicans and that one black guy. UPDATE: Also. UPDATE.
I had an interesting twitter exchange (@ErikLoomis) today with Andy Bowen (@andymbowen) about John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. I was listening to Ornette's "The Shape of Jazz to Come" this.