Evan Schlansky

Behind The Song: “Man Of Constant Sorrow”(1)

June 30, 2011

You’d think after one hundred years, “Man Of Constant Sorrow” would eventually get old. But the American folk standard, which has been covered by everyone from a young Bob Dylan to Norwegian girl-group Katzenjammer, and helped launch the modern Americana movement with its canny placement in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, has been [...]

Behind The Song: “Man Of Constant Sorrow”

Sounding Off: So Long, New York. Howdy, East Nashville

Little did I realize when I was writing last issue’s column about my feelings on country music that I’d be moving to Nashville a mere month later. That’s right, dear readers. I’ve been brought in to be American Songwriter’s new managing editor. I hope I manage to edit something while I’m here. That’s a little [...]

“So Long, New York. Howdy, East Nashville”

Last month, I decided I was ready to leave New York City, the “greatest city in the world,” and move to Nashville, the capitol of country music. As it happens, I got out at just the right time –- the little Tibetan kid in the apartment a few doors down just took up playing the [...]

Sounding Off: You Can Take The Boy Out of the Country…

When I wrote in a previous column that I didn’t listen to country, I got a few comments from concerned country music-listening citizens. “For the love of God,” they said, “at least listen to Dierks Bentley.” Which got me thinking about what was going on: I loved music, so why not country? In upstate New [...]