Rebecca Loebe
|Although it doesn’t chew on tobacco-stained, gritty folk and country realism, Give Up Your Ghosts would spit out the very notion that its contents are made of bubblegum. Too sweet … Read more
Although it doesn’t chew on tobacco-stained, gritty folk and country realism, Give Up Your Ghosts would spit out the very notion that its contents are made of bubblegum. Too sweet … Read more
The puzzle of life. Fitting all the pieces together responsibly confounds most of us, at least at some point in the game. Steelworker Peter Rogan tried guitar on for size … Read more
If you knew nothing about Glen Clark and heard some cuts from You Tell Me, your first association would likely be Delbert McClinton and you’d be right. The two made … Read more
Still reeling from a painful divorce, Victor Krummenacher embarked on an emotionally draining journey to Blue Pacific, his ninth solo album. To reach its golden shores, the co-founder of eclectic … Read more
Photos by Laura Carbone The award-winning Tampa Bay Blues Festival celebrates its twenty-fifth year of bringing the very best blues music to the shores of Tampa Bay from April 12 to … Read more
San Francisco singer/songwriter Bob Hillman has entered the second act of a career that began in the late 1990s, was interrupted by ten years of “real jobs,” then resumed in … Read more
Tom Petty was readily one of the USA’s truly great modern musicians, a guy with a genuinely genius touch and a melodic force that remains unrivaled following his sudden departure … Read more
Harpdog Brown was working a lot on the edge of old-school jazz and some gutsy blues when Skye Lambourne and William Joseph Abbott, young fellas well-studied in New Orleans blues … Read more
Phil Gernhard, Record Man, by Bill DeYoung University Press of Florida Score: 80 Bill DeYoung’s bio of record industry wearer-of-many-hats (producer, promoter, publisher) Phil Gernhard is a fast read. Perhaps not … Read more
The Smithsonian Museums keep history and the evolution of our American culture alive. Smithsonian Folkways has been a force in keeping our musical heritage alive. With the release of The … Read more