Archive for November, 2011
Bruce Springsteen Plots New Album, Tour
For consummate performer Bruce Springsteen, the show must go on. Despite losing E Street Band member and right hand man Clarence Clemons to illness this year, the rocker has announced that he will tour, and release a new album, in 2012. A note on his official website reads: “Well, things are starting to heat up [...]
The Black Belles And Wanda Jackson At Marathon Music Works, Nashville (11/19/2011)
Queen of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson, headlined Saturday at the newly opened Marathon Music Works in Nashville. The Black Belles opened.
Adele, “One And Only”
Songwriter Greg Wells tells the story behind writing “One And Only” with Adele In October, the British pop superstar Adele canceled her remaining 2011 concert dates in order to undergo treatment for a vocal cord hemorrhage. The laser microsurgery was performed in Boston, and recent news from the Adele camp have indicated that the singer [...]
Haroula Rose
Some time back, we chatted up Haroula Rose, an acclaimed singer-songwriter hailing from Chicago and based in L.A., who was returning from a writing retreat across the pond. Rose’s self-released album, These Open Roads, earned her raves from L.A. Weekly, No Depression, Vice, and others. We talked with Rose about the album, her approach to [...]
Sessions: Jason Boland
Back when he was in town to play a show with his band The Stragglers, Jason Boland stopped by our offices to play a few songs from his new album, Rancho Alto, in stripped-down, acoustic form. Though he now lives in Austin, Boland springs from the famed Red Dirt soil of Oklahoma – and it [...]
Google’s Two-Front Music Play
On Wednesday, Google announced a revamped Google Music that features both a full music store and a distribution service for artists. Let’s take a moment to trace the recent evolution of the major digital music stores. In May, Google first launched a music product, called Music Beta. Failing to negotiate licenses with record labels, Music [...]
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s Stolen Gear Still Missing
Attention music lovers and good people of the world! Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – one of our favorite bands here at American Songwriter – is still missing its arsenal of gear, which was reported stolen in Dallas on November 12, along with the group’s touring van and trailer. The Dallas Fort-Worth police recovered [...]
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