John Prine – Love, love, love
Oldies Songs A QUIET WARNING HIDDEN INSIDE A LOVE SONG For John Prine, love was never just romance. It was tenderness, regret, loneliness, and the kind of fire that could warm a…
Emmylou Harris – Making of Red Dirt Girl
AFTER DECADES OF SINGING OTHER PEOPLE’S HEARTBREAKS, EMMYLOU HARRIS FINALLY OPENED HER OWN. By the late 1990s, Emmylou Harris had already built one of the most respected careers in American…
A visitors’ centre in Springhill, N.S. opens in 1989 to showcase memorabilia from the life and career of singer Anne Murray
A SMALL MINING TOWN LOST ITS FUTURE… THEN ANNE MURRAY CAME HOME. In 1989, Anne Murray returned to Springhill for one of the most emotional moments of her career. The…
Little Bird – Jerry Jeff Walker- Gruene Hall 2015
In the Worn Wooden Air of Gruene Hall, Jerry Jeff Walker Sang Like a Man Speaking to Time Itself When Jerry Jeff Walker performed “Little Bird” at Gruene Hall in…
Emmylou Harris – My Old Man – Concert in memory of Jerry Jeff Walker – 5 June 2021
WHEN EMMYLOU HARRIS SANG FOR JERRY JEFF WALKER IN 2021, IT FELT LIKE A GOODBYE WRITTEN IN MOONLIGHT AND MEMORY On the evening of June 5, 2021, the wide Texas…
Freddy Fender and Marty Robbins (The Marty Robbins Show)
WHEN FREDDY FENDER STOOD BESIDE MARTY ROBBINS, COUNTRY MUSIC QUIETLY CHANGED FOR A MOMENT The cameras rolling during The Marty Robbins Show captured something much deeper than a television duet.…
THE SONGSTRESS WITH THE SPEED OF A SPRINTER!
SHE DIDN’T JUST OUTRUN THE OTHER CELEBRITIES… SHE SHOCKED EVERYONE WATCHING. Long before celebrity fitness became a brand, Anne Murray stepped onto a running track in 1978 and quietly embarrassed…
Roy Orbison interview on “Good Morning Britain” 12-11-1987
ROY ORBISON’S DARK GLASSES WERE AN ACCIDENT… BUT THE LONELINESS IN HIS VOICE WAS REAL By December 1987, Roy Orbison was living through one of the most remarkable comebacks in…
JOHN PRINE BONNAROO 2010 PARADISE – GUESTS KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
WHEN JOHN PRINE AND KRIS KRISTOFFERSON SANG “PARADISE” AT BONNAROO, IT FELT LIKE AMERICA’S MEMORY WAS SINGING BACK TO ITSELF On a warm Tennessee night during Bonnaroo 2010, thousands of…
Emmylou Harris interview, Ireland 1982
EMMYLOU HARRIS CAME TO IRELAND IN 1982 LOOKING FOR THE SOUL INSIDE THE MUSIC In 1982, Emmylou Harris arrived in Ireland not merely as an international country music star promoting…