Archive for October, 2010
MerleFest 2011 Lands Lyle Lovett, Doobie Brothers, Doc Watson, and More
MerleFest, the annual bluegrass, roots and folk festival in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, has announced their lineup for 2011. Slated for April 28-May 1, the 24th edition of Merlefest will once again feature Doc Watson, as well as Lyle Lovett, The Doobie Brothers, Alison Brown Quartet, and many others. “The MerleFest 2011 lineup offers an incredibly [...]
“Songwriter To The Stars” Odie Blackmon Is On A Roll WIth A New Instructional DVD And Songwriting Course At Vanderbilt University
From the press release: September 28, 2010 (Nashville, TN) — Writing hit songs for the likes of George Strait and Lee Ann Womack isn’t all that Grammy-nominated songwriter Odie Blackmon has been up to lately. He’s also been teaching other aspiring musicians how to write their own chart-topping hits — and make a living doing [...]
Lyric Spotlight Q&A: November/December 2010
“I Never Did My Best” Written by Ryan Tanner Interview by Jamie Younger When did you write “I Never Did My Best?” Well, I started about a year ago. It took me a little bit to finish the lyrics. Usually I try not to let things sit very long. Once I start an idea I usually try [...]
Single File: Ray LaMontagne, Elton John and Leon Russell, Waaves and More
Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs – God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise – “Beg, Steal or Borrow” By this time, most have heard this catchy folk ballad, but in all probability, it’s still stuck in their heads. Sorrowful pedal steel pierces the heart of insatiable wanderlust and the one-two acoustic strumming cuts a [...]
Kurt Vile At Mercy Lounge, Nashville, 10/23/2010
Kurt Vile performs at Mercy Lounge in Nashville on October 23, 2010.
10 Artists To See At MoogFest
Whether your thing is knob-twiddling IDMers, dance, funk bands or psych-rock, MoogFest has you covered. And, wisely, they’ve programmed it so that fans will have to make some hard decisions. Girl Talk or Panda Bear? Thievery Corporation or Jonsi? Here are 10 artists we don’t want to miss. MGMT and Kuroma Okay, technically two bands. [...]
Dylan LeBlanc: The Ghosts In Your Head
“I never really knew who I was hanging out with ‘til I got older,” says Dylan LeBlanc from behind a greasy forelock of light brown hair. LeBlanc grew up at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, one of the epicenters of soul music in the ‘50s and ‘60s, around hall of famers like David Hood [...]
James Otto: Country Choir Boy
For his third album, Shake What God Gave Ya, James Otto knew exactly what he wanted. “I set out to make a country soul record so I wrote in that direction,” the Nashville-based artist says. “As a professional songwriter I’ve written over a thousand songs and I can write in a lot of different directions. [...]
Ben Folds & Nick Hornby: A Q&A With Ben Folds
Rock novelist Nick Hornby may have penned all the lyrics for the new Ben Folds album Lonely Avenue, but that doesn’t mean the “Brick” singer is about to start writing books. “With a song, it only takes a couple of minutes to go back to the beginning and try it again to see if it [...]
Bruce Burch: Atlanta Skyline
Bruce Burch didn’t have any plans to leave the undergraduate music program he’d started five years ago in Athens, Georgia, at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. The program had been a huge success. But Burch must have been keeping one eye on Atlanta, and Joel Katz, a powerful Atlanta attorney, had been [...]
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