Back in the early 70’s there was something in the air in the music industry. Well, besides that. Multi-band shows were evolving away from several bands crammed into a 3 hour schedule in a ballr...
https://twangville.com/2024/05/30/fathers-day-bluegrass-festival-preview/
Matthew Milia of indie folk band Frontier Ruckus talks about working in advertising, winning a battle of the bands, and making salsa in a hotel sink.
Making mixtapes for friends was an active hobby for those of us working in college radio back in the day. Turns out hoping to broaden someone else’s musical horizons wasn’t unique to FM DJ’...
https://twangville.com/2024/05/15/hannah-connolly-shadowboxing/
What do you get when Allison Russell, Rhiannon Giddens, Valerie June and others get together to sing songs by an underappreciated black songwriter on John Prine’s label? My Black Country – Th...
https://twangville.com/2024/05/08/my-black-country-the-songs-of-alice-randall/
I’ve always admired talented buskers. I can’t imagine a harder audience than a bunch of people who just view you as an obstacle to getting where they’re going. And yet, there is almost alwa...
https://twangville.com/2024/05/02/jake-trevor-song-premiere-coffee-and-wine/
Ray Wylie Hubbard once said that good poets didn’t have good childhoods. I’m sure that was a broad commentary on how adversity can be the inspiration an artist of any kind uses to shape their...
https://twangville.com/2024/04/11/clayton-ryan-song-premiere-wild-man/
Fiddler Alastair Caplin of Scotland’s The Langan Band shares a tour lesson learned and talks about eating healthy while on tour and time spent teaching horse-back riding.
Humans have always spent a lot of energy trying to outdo each other, and social media has supercharged all the motivations causing that. So it’s a nice change to run across someone who’s comf...
The Lottery Winners My last official SXSW set was delivered by one of my fave new artist discoveries – England’s The Lottery Winners. The band’s energy, combined with the positivity of th...
https://twangville.com/2024/03/28/sxsw-2024-the-sounds-part-3/
Todd Snider is an American original, a songwriter rooted in folk who has followed his own path since the start of his career more than 30 years ago. In that vein, Snider is embarking on a journey...
https://twangville.com/2024/03/11/monday-morning-video-todd-snider/