One of the most interesting things that I’ve been a part of lately is a CD called ‘The 1861 Project‘. It’s a collection of new, original songs by various songwriters offering different perspectives about The American Civil War. With artists like Marty Stuart and John Anderson contributing, I know it’s going to be fantastic.
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Howdy, gang!
Well, I just mailed 350 copies of ‘HYMNS TO THE HERE AND NOW’ to radio stations. Fingers crossed, please!!! If you have an Americana, Folk, College or NPR station in your town, please give ‘em a holler and request my tunes. We’re really excited about this!!
It’s gorgeous in Savannah right now and [...]
Well, we’re all back in Savannah after a fun little strum-a-thon road trip up to Atlanta, DC and West Virginia.
Tami, Peyton and I took off for Atlanta over a week ago to visit family and play the open mic at Eddie’s Attic in Decatur. That is surely one of the best songwriter venues in [...]
I don’t know why but Cowboy Jack Clement has been on my mind lately.
I made music in Nashville for a quarter century and one thing that I learned in Twang town was, “Never Meet Your Heroes”. They do not live up to your fantasies…any of them. I met too many of those poor megalomaniacs [...]
England felt downright balmy after the blustery bite of Berlin. Jean jacket weather. I was giddy and ready for a walkabout. My British manager, Lee Williams, had booked some shows in London and throughout southern England and I dubbed it The Blood Pudding Tour, named after that breakfast delicacy pretty much unknown to us Yanks. [...]
BELFAST TO BERLIN
It was like God was twisting out the water from a wet, grey flannel blanket the day that I arrived in Belfast. February 25th, 2010. The good news was that The Crown Bar was directly across the street [...]
Bon jour, my friends!
It’s been a very interesting
winter for us this year and I’m, frankly, ready to see some dogwood and
AZALEA action sooner than later. My old pig smoker looked fairly
lonely and forlorn when I left for Europe a couple of weeks ago. I’ll
be warming it up as soon as [...]
Today, marks 20 years since the Berlin Wall fell and it seems like yesterday. I had been in Berlin a short time before that, busking around Europe, and marveled at how it was the only modern, walled city on Earth. I visited both the East and the West and was shocked, like countless others before [...]
WSM’s CUTTING EDGE SERIES, “MUSIC CITY ROOTS”, LINKS EIGHT DECADES OF TRADITION WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND ATTITUDES
It was a dark and stormy night in The Music [...]
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