BY PAT MORAN / FROM THE JANUARY-FEBRUARY ISSUE OF ACOUSTIC GUITAR
“Watch lights turn into stars,” Pharis Romero sings in “Hometown Blues,” the opening song ... Read More...
Mississippi-born blues legend Nehemiah "Skip" James (1902-1969) was one of the great success stories of the late '50s and '60s folk and blues revival. Though h... Read More...
The death of John Prine a few days ago got me thinking about other underrated songwriters who, though successful in the sense of getting their songs covered by... Read More...
By Blair Jackson
This is a rough one. Even though we knew that when John Prine went into the hospital recently suffering from the COVID-19 virus that the de... Read More...
By BLAIR JACKSON
Sad news that the great R&B singer-songwriter Bill Withers has passed away at the age of 81. The West Virginia native made a big impact... Read More...
We can't let this Throwback Thursday pass by without giving a tip o' the Stetson to country music great Kenny Rogers, who died on March 20 at the age of 81. I... Read More...
OK, there's nothing really "Throwback" about this performance, which is actually fairly recent. But Stevie Nicks' classic Fleetwood Mac tune "Landslide," does ... Read More...
On March 5, 1963, country music singers Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, and Cowboy Copas were killed in a plane crash outside Camden, Tennessee, following a be... Read More...
February 20, 2020, would be Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain's 53rd birthday had he had not taken his own life in April 1994. Now, I know the Cobain is hardly the fi... Read More...