News from the Neal Casal Foundation back in June and the couple of tracks our editor chose over the summer got me reminiscing once again back to 2014, when Casal, as a founding member of the […]
In her 1967 essay “Goodbye to All That”, Joan Didion wrote that young adults always have the curse of “conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before”. […]
You only have to look at the list of people who have covered this song to get an idea of just how important it is to the progress, legacy and development of country music. Originally written […]
In 2012, Dawes released their second album, “Nothing Is Wrong”. The opening track began with a four-beat count-in from an electric guitar, which was followed by a riff with the unusual chord progression of I-iii-vii-IV, played […]
Some voices arrive like a hand on your shoulder. Bill Fay’s is one of them. “I had near/forgotten everything”, Fay sings, opening the song not with a confession, but with a kind of quiet exhale. ‘Filled […]
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