On her way to recording music this year that she describes as “definitely a level up from the things I’ve done in the past,” Bailey Bigger responded to a [click here to continue]
Country music doesn’t have an abundance of black artists, admits Miko Marks, but she says “it’s not as rare as one might think.” “There are people [click here to continue]
About three more days in the studio is what singer-violinist Elana James says she and her Hot Club of Cowtown bandmates would have needed to complete an album [click here to continue]
Plenty of songs feature a protagonist literally or figuratively crying in his or her beer. However, that doesn’t automatically mean being in that state of [click here to continue]
As “the only Jersey girl, the only Northeasterner” in The Stubborn Lovers, bassist-songwriter Jenny Taylor needed to provide a lot of context to her [click here to continue]
Eric Clapton had Brownie and Blackie. Willie Nelson still plays Trigger. And of course, B.B. King spent the majority of his career accompanied by Lucille. Add [click here to continue]
There’s always been a desolate, desert quality to his music, says Son of the Velvet Rat singer Georg Altziebler — even before he and Heike Binder, his wife [click here to continue]
Neil Young’s career has been like quicksilver, changing rapidly and moving in disparate directions. His new double-disc release, Earth (Reprise Records), [click here to continue]