by Stephanie Powell
You’ve mastered a bevy of chords and you can fingerpick like no other—and now you’re ready to create guitar videos for YouTube. Crafting... Read More...
In 1958, Johnny Cash quit working with Sun Records and signed with Columbia for his next album, The Fabulous Johnny Cash. “I Still Miss Someone” first appeared... Read More...
Watch the Boss and company perform the folk standard “Oh Shenandoah.” In this recently released video (originally filmed in 2006 during the recording of We Sha... Read More...
“That’s All Right” was the first single of Elvis’s storied career. Recorded at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, the track was released in 1954 and is consider... Read More...
Lucinda Williams’ “Jackson” appears on her 1998 album, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, which garnered her second Grammy Award (the first was in 1993 for “Passiona... Read More...
One of my favorite trends of the last few years has been the number of guitarists (particularly young ones) who are exploring the keyboard works of the great F... 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...
Seems like no matter what the situation is in the world or in your life, there's a Bob Dylan song that feels right for the moment, even if obliquely. Actually,... 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...
