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/
I am not a fan of Nashville’s Lower Broadway. While authentic country music may be the claim, drunken bridesmaids are in much greater abundance and are what’s setting the atmosphere. Every ru...
https://twangville.com/2024/04/24/sarah-gayle-meech-easin-on/
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/
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...
As noted in my previous post, a big part of the Folk Alliance International annual conference are the showcases, both official and unofficial. The official performances take place from around 6pm...
https://twangville.com/2024/02/29/folk-alliance-2024-musical-highlights/
There are many organizations set up to serve the music industry, from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the Grammy people) and their non-profit, MusiCares, to industry organiza...
https://twangville.com/2024/02/29/2024-folk-alliance-international-conference/
One of the things that makes California unique is the breadth of its geographic features. You can easily hit the slopes on Olympic quality runs at Lake Tahoe in the morning and then catch the lat...
https://twangville.com/2024/02/28/ted-russell-kamp-video-premiere-high-desert-fever/
Sometimes when you hear the origin story for a record you realize it was almost destined to sound the way it does. Such is the case with the debut album from Josh Fortenbery, No Such Thing As For...
https://twangville.com/2024/02/22/josh-fortenbery-premiere-bored-to-death/
Fate can be an interesting topic. You can accept it as the reason things happen, or question whether you can change it. In the case of lifelong friends Molly Rochelson and Sally Buice, both viewp...
https://twangville.com/2024/02/08/the-montvales-born-strangers/
Chrislyn Lawrence and Mike McClure first met in 2003. Although they had an instant, soulful connection, life happened, and they continued on parallel paths. Mike gained considerable music credibi...
https://twangville.com/2024/02/01/crow-and-gazelle-song-premiere-take-it-away/