John Prine, Lucinda Williams, the Civil Wars headline Cayamo, an Americana music festival on a cruise ship. http://t.co/IvtbSAVJ # Vince Gill, Amy Grant and Don Schlitz to headline benefit at Bluebird Cafe in Nashville #Nashville music http://t.co/pHZ8nxb7 # Musical Apps for the iPhone http://t.co/xkG6wZBC via @WSJ # Danny Barnes’ cover of “Bang A Gong” is 3/4 T Rex, 1/4 Power…
The Deep Dark Woods: The Place I Left Behind
By Ken Paulson —It’s too easy to compare a Canadian band to The Band, but in the case of the Deep Dark Woods, it’s also inescapable. The sonic resemblance is most apparent on murder saga “The Ballad of Frank Dupree,” but the Deep Dark Woods also mine The Band’s terrain of days long past, regrets and remembrances. Listening to The…
Amy Grant, Vince Gill headline Bluebird Cafe benefit
Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Don Schlitz and friends will perform in the round at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe on Jan. 26 at 9 p.m. Proceeds benefit Alive Hospice. Tickets are $75, and sold out, but sometimes no-shows leave a few open seats. Here’s a fan video from the same event last year:
How Emmylou Harris helped transform downtown Nashville
Tonight Emmylou Harris will be honored at the Grand Old Opry, on the stage of the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. She deserves that recognition and Nashville’s gratitude. Today downtown Nashville is the home of a major arena, symphony hall, thriving restaurants and a restored and vibrant Ryman Auditorium. But that wasn’t the case in the early 1990s. In a column…