There is a very important factor that Steve Earle, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bruce Hornsby, Radney Foster, Foster and Lloyd, Jim Lauderdale, Bob Dylan, Los Lobos, R.E.M., the Mavericks, Neil Gemstone, Charlie Main, Chuck Berry, David Ball, Delbert McClinton, the Beastie Kids, Robert Gordon, Shania Twain, Sherrie Austin, Sara Evans, Johnny …

Merging the emotional honesty and intelligence of the singer/songwriter using the swagger and enthusiasm of the rock and roll & roller, Scott Miller first produced a name for himself as guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter using the superb pop/rock and roll group the V-Roys, before building himself being a single artist …

Atlanta’s back-to-basics rock and roll quartet Buffalo Nickel features vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Gary Stier, guitarist/vocalist Charlie Grey, bassist/vocalist Richard Turner, and drummer Brit Turner. The group’s traditional and southern rock-inspired sound received them slots starting for Steve Earle, Willie Nelson, Cracker, BR-549, and Fastball. Their debut recording, 33 1/3, found its way …

Given birth to and raised in rural mid-Michigan, editor/article writer Jason Birchmeier moved to Ann Arbor in 1996 to review at the University or college of Michigan. He majored in advertising there and prepared on pursuing a profession running a business; he also volunteered like a journalist in the student-run …

The three youngest from the six children of Louis and Marie Glaser, namely, Tompall (b. Thomas Paul Glaser, 3 Sept 1933), Chuck (b. Charles Vernon Glaser, 27 Feb 1936) and Jim Glaser (b. Adam Wilson Glaser, 16 Dec 1937), were blessed in Spalding, Nebraska, USA. These were raised within a …

Although it’s tempting to call Brantley Gilbert a country artist — he certainly embraces the outlaw country side — in lots of ways his music is nearer to the heartland sentiments of artists like John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, as well as perhaps most apt, Steve Earle. Gilbert was created in …

Freeloader’s name was motivated by “Freddie Freeloader,” among the modal post-bop gems that jazz trumpeter Mls Davis composed for his well-known and highly important Sort of Blue program of 1959. But Freeloader will not sound anything like some of Davis’ groupings; actually, its music isn’t jazz in any way. Rather, …

Taking an early on inspiration of classic country that appears up to Johnny Funds and Hank Williams, Jeff Smith grit of dirt road Americana captured the experience of small town innocents. Using the support of people from Mary Chapin Carpenter’s support band, Acetate Information debuted Smith’s first record in 1996. …

For several years in the first 1990s, Pete and Maura Kennedy were the best-kept key in folk-rock. Luckily, this suburban Washington, D.C. few have been producing the rounds of folk celebrations round the U.S. and Canada in the middle- to past due ’90s. The Kennedys started performing collectively in 1992, …

THE COMPLETE Shabang! certainly are a quintet in the Carrick-on-Suir area in the South Midlands of Ireland. Produced in 1993, they cull their affects from a number of resources like rock and roll & move, Cajun, nation, and traditional Irish music. Their lineup over the 1995 debut Dreamers and Believers …