Setting The Woods On Fire ❤ Well, here they are in alphabetical order. After some intensive time in the STWOF listening room, I've come up with a list of my 100 favorite Bob Dylan songs. It… Read full post »
Star Maker Machine ❤ Chris Smither: The Devil's Real [purchase ]You may not recognize the swallowed tenor wail and growl of swamp-folk singer-songwriter Chris Smither, but you know his songs: I Feel The Same… Read full post »
Cover Lay Down ❤ Though my father hasn't missed it in decades, I haven't been able to attend the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival since I started teaching over a decade ago --… Read full post »
Cover Lay Down ❤ North Carolina is rich in history and broad in geography, stretching from warm beachfront majesty to the base of Appalachia. That it holds a dominant place in the history of… Read full post »
Some Velvet Blog ❤ El Paso - Marty Robbins Killin' The Blues - Chris Smither (you may be familiar with the cover of this on the new Plant/Krauss album) The Wind And The Rain… Read full post »
MOG Most discussed tracks ❤ ‘Mississippi’ John Hurt stepped into the studio in 1928 to record some 28 “sides” for Okeh records and secured his place in the pantheon of blues legends. His quiet delivery… Read full post »
HearYa: An Indie Music Blog ❤ Here’s a little bit of what I’m missing today by not going to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco. Guy Clark - Desperadoes Waiting on a Train Fionn… Read full post »
Keep The Coffee Coming ❤ This is a John Hiatt cover from Chris Smither's 1993 album Happier Blue. MP3 File Read full post »
Twangville ❤ Here’s a preview of some bands familiar to me playing on Thursday night of this year’s festival. A big thanks to the bands for being kind enough to make the… Read full post »
songs:illinois ❤ This whole Haggard thing really gets my goat. I'm not exactly religious, in fact a 5 year old recently asked me on the playground if I was a Christian (odd… Read full post »
a cold sweat ❤ As is the case with a good number of artists in my music library, it was my old man who first introduced me to Chris Smither . He is a… Read full post »
said the gramophone ❤ [On November 3rd, Matt Christie won our "My Funny Valentine" contest , sending me a studio recording of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet ft. Chet Baker, and in so doing winning… Read full post »
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