Brent Cobb’s ‘Southern Star’ Shines on Macon
Brent Cobb conjures more than crafts his songs, blending cascades of pine needle-covered front porch wisdom and after-midnight wit with a preternatural cadence that’s…
Interviews
The Elemental Gregory Alan Isakov
On Appaloosa Bones, Gregory Alan Isakov crafts pop-up boom towns and misty villages, filling their thoroughfares and outskirts with denizens as at home in…
Better Living Through The Blues: Shemekia Copeland to Play Blind Willie McTell Music Festival on 9/23
Back in 2005, Shemekia Copeland asked “Who Stole My Radio?” in a song that laments the corporate grab that’s diminished the sounds of her…
Carolyn Wonderland’s Joy
Ida Cox’s advice to squares: “Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues.” That’s a seductive premise, but the “Uncrowned Queen of Blues” didn’t live long…
Rayland Baxter: A Song In All Forms
Rayland Baxter maps melodies like a hopeful scout surveying an ever-expanding territory of sound. A legacy artist (his late father Bucky Baxter was a…
Let It Be Good: The Sensational Barnes Brothers to Bring Memphis Soul to Blind Willie Music Festival
The Sensational Barnes Brothers reminds listeners of the Saturday night/Sunday morning tensions between gospel and early soul music. Both forms find roots in the…
‘Can we do one more?’ The Relics Return to Macon & JBA on 9/15
The Relics’ front man Joseph Pieper is nothing if not enthusiastic. On the phone, he rushes through the requisite good-afternoon greetings, focusing instead on…
Until The Best Come Around: Buddy Guy’s ‘Damn Right Farewell Tour’ Comes to Macon City Auditorium on 9/16
The blues has always found its proponents with a healthy respect for experience and history, particularly with younger musicians paying homage to the elder…
Handful O’ Nickels: Boy Golden (8.31.2023)
Boy Golden’s 2021 groover Church Of Better Daze was a mile-high pile of easy twangin’ goodness and cannabis-friendly philosophy that appealed to the righteous…