Interviews, NewsParker Smith Talks New Album, Guitar Shed & Covering The Dead Ahead of 9/30 Performance at JBA Aaron Irons…tune, I’ll just come up with that initial groove or initial chord progression and then start hummin’ along with it, and the words come. That was one that came pretty…
InterviewsThe Scribe: Rodney Crowell on ‘The Chicago Sessions’ Aaron IronsRodney Crowell’s The Chicago Sessions shines through a collection of fresh tunes and reimaginings that elicit both full-toothed smiles and jaw-setting introspection. Easily classified in the “best of ” files…
ReviewsRequired Listening: Philosophy of the World Charlie Farmer…in competency, The Shaggs were a band forever developing in real time. With the misguided hubris of a charter school parent, Austin urged his daughters into a recording studio, telling…
InterviewsHail Mary Rock n’ Roll: Adam McIntyre of The Pinx Talks Solo Projects & Previews New Album Aaron Irons…of them that felt like an album together for Freedom. And I was really happy to get going again! Photo by Haley Mewborn. Couple of big things about Freedom– an…
InterviewsHand-To-Hand Troubador: Stevie Tombstone Returns to Macon with Drivin N Cryin on 3/3 Aaron IronsStevie Tombstone’s saga canopies like a rock n’ roll oak, the kind with wild, ever-searching roots that tangle and gnarl above the earth. Career-wise, his boxset would be monstrous, a…
ColumnsBo Talks: Born Beholden Bo Walker…too real and heavy to compare to my compulsion to buy stuff and things. I may have found a better analogy for my Achilles’ heel of consumption. No, thankfully, I’m…
Interviews‘I don’t really know what we call this music from a genre standpoint, but it’s mine and that’s where I belong’: Maggie Rose on New Album, FAME & Deprogramming Herself for Success Aaron Irons…I’m not gonna deny them that because I feel like I’ve maybe gotten comfortable at home– which was never comfortable, to be honest! It was torture! So just gratitude. Remembering…
InterviewsThe Artist’s Skin: Garrison Starr Aaron Irons…and the sin and the Old Testament stuff, it’s just kind of always there until you can put it in its place. I feel like I’ve come full circle. I…
ReviewsRequired Listening: Requiem For An Almost Lady Charlie Farmer…(1971). Yet it’s 1971’s Requiem For An Almost Lady that’s his most complete and most haunting, an album that yearns for closure that never comes. Hazlewood’s spoken-word intro for Requiem’s…
Interviews, NewsMaggie Rose Returns to Macon for Grant’s Lounge Debut on 2/23 Aaron Irons…not gonna deny them that because I feel like I’ve maybe gotten comfortable at home– which was never comfortable, to be honest! It was torture! So just gratitude. Remembering that…
InterviewsThe Lost Thing: Mercer University Press Releases New Poetry Collection from Dr. Sarah Gordon Charlie Farmer…horrible ones. It’s tough, but it’s fun. Writing is the activity that most completely absorbs me and has always most completely absorbed me. I can lose hours just working on…
InterviewsSongwriter Drew Whitehead Talks Truth & Motivation Ahead of 3/5 EP Release at JBA Aaron Irons…you finding that community that you were after? Not yet! Mainly because of the pandemic, you know? I started playin’ at a church up here, playing guitar for them, and…
