The new Chet Atkins exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame will is now open. It’s a treat for fans of his music, as well as guitar buffs. The heart of the exhibit is the battered Sears Silvertone guitar Atkins learned to play on. From there, the guitars and career get considerably more impressive. The exhibit occupies the space…
Marshall Grant of Johnny Cash’s Tennessee Two 1928-2011
The pioneers of rock ‘n’ roll and what we now call American Music are in their eighties now. It’s remarkable that Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino are still playing, but we’ve lost many other legends of that generation. Marshall Grant, the last living member of Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two, died on Sunday. His bass playing…
Jimmie Fadden on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Americana music
Jimmie Fadden reflected on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s many influences and how they helped shape the band’s own brand of Americana music in an interview with Timesdaily.com: “We have a lot of different interests in the band. It’s kind of what propelled us from rather obscure mountain music to Delta blues artists to more contemporary players. Just a variety…
Review: Nick 13
You don’t often see the words “psychobilly” and “Lloyd Green” in the same sentence, let alone on the same album. Yet that’s truly the charm of “Nick 13,” the solo debut by the artist of the same name. Nick 13 is best known as singer and songwriter for Tiger Army, a psychobilly band that draws on the genre’s punk and…