Some bands have a birthing moment, a specific date they first played together. Others form in what is probably best described as an organic fashion. The latter is the case with Santa Cruz’s AJ ...
https://twangville.com/2024/07/18/aj-lee-blue-summit-city-of-glass/
Now That’s What I Call Fantastic Cat by Fantastic Cat The sum is greater than the part with this collective of four singer-songwriters. Each of the four brings their own personality and songwri...
https://twangville.com/2024/07/11/mayers-picks-the-best-of-2024-so-far-the-albums/
Back in the day, the normal way to make an album was for the vocalist to go into the studio with musicians that did little else besides play on recordings being made for the name on the cover. Wh...
So Glad You Made It, Fantastic Cat (from the Missing Piece Group Records release Now That’s What I Call Fantastic Cat) Fantastic Cat showcase their humor by maintaining a countdown clock until ...
https://twangville.com/2024/07/03/mayers-playlist-for-summer-2024/
Justin Townes Earle was taken from us at the much too young age of 38. He left behind an incredible catalog of songs striking and profound. Later this summer New West Records will release a doubl...
https://twangville.com/2024/06/17/monday-morning-video-justin-townes-earle-2/
A friend of mine noted earlier this year there has developed a tiny silver lining to the Cat 5 hurricane of the pandemic. He observed that anyone still in the music business now is in it because ...
https://twangville.com/2024/06/12/cosmic-guilt-palace-of-depression/
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/