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    Jim Lauderdale: COUNTRY, SOUL and BLUEGRASS
    By Alan Richard
    • Mar 27, 2020
    • 11 min

    Jim Lauderdale: COUNTRY, SOUL and BLUEGRASS

    Jim Lauderdale is a musical chameleon of sorts. One of the best living country songwriters, his incredible range of styles is an amalgam...
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    STAX IN ’68: SOME OF MEMPHIS’ BEST MUSICAL MOMENTS
    By Alan Richard
    • Mar 5, 2020
    • 13 min

    STAX IN ’68: SOME OF MEMPHIS’ BEST MUSICAL MOMENTS

    One of my favorite box sets is Stax ’68: A Memphis Story, a compilation of the legendary label’s dozens of singles and B-sides during a...
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    MEMPHIS MAGIC
    By Alan Richard
    • Feb 18, 2020
    • 10 min

    MEMPHIS MAGIC

    Producer Matt Ross-Spang discusses his work with the Rev. Al Green, John Prine, Margo Price, William Bell, and other greats Few young...
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    MARTY STUART'S MUSICAL PILGRIMAGE
    By Alan Richard
    • Feb 2, 2020
    • 6 min

    MARTY STUART'S MUSICAL PILGRIMAGE

    Twenty years after Marty Stuart’s concept album The Pilgrim was released, it’s out again, with a deluxe edition that includes a coffee...
    252 views0 comments
    COUNTRY MUSIC FOR ALL
    By Alan Richard
    • Feb 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    COUNTRY MUSIC FOR ALL

    Cindy Emch and her band are making a new album, and everyone’s invited to the party. The Secret Emchy Society, as the alt-country,...
    48 views0 comments
    BLACK COWBOYS
    By Alan Richard
    • Jan 9, 2020
    • 16 min

    BLACK COWBOYS

    Dom Flemons’ latest musical journey explores folk music, American history, the West, and the African-American experience Growing up in...
    716 views0 comments
    BLUEGRASS PRIDE
    By Alan Richard
    • Dec 4, 2019
    • 1 min

    BLUEGRASS PRIDE

    It’s a long way from San Francisco to Mississippi, but singer-songwriter and banjo player Tyler Stegall of The High Water Line has...
    32 views0 comments
    ELTON JOHN'S GAY COUNTRY SOUL
    By Alan Richard
    • Nov 17, 2019
    • 1 min

    ELTON JOHN'S GAY COUNTRY SOUL

    Elton John and songwriting partner Bernie Taupin were star-struck when the members of The Band filed into John’s dressing room after a...
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    EMMYLOU LIVE: RED DIRT REQUIEM
    By Alan Richard
    • Nov 11, 2019
    • 4 min

    EMMYLOU LIVE: RED DIRT REQUIEM

    Emmylou Harris is one of the most important artists in country and American roots music. Beyond her stunning voice, which always soars...
    400 views0 comments
    BLUEBIRD CAFE MAGIC STILL ALIVE AND WELL
    By Alan Richard
    • Oct 28, 2019
    • 3 min

    BLUEBIRD CAFE MAGIC STILL ALIVE AND WELL

    On any given night in Nashville, magic can happen, legendary songwriter (and my friend) Marshall Chapman often says. This certainly was...
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    BLACK AND COUNTRY
    By Alan Richard
    • Sep 27, 2019
    • 15 min

    BLACK AND COUNTRY

    The African-American influence--and white appropriation--in country music goes even deeper than Ken Burns’ important new documentary...
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    SPEAKING WITH KEN BURNS
    By Alan Richard
    • Sep 1, 2019
    • 1 min

    SPEAKING WITH KEN BURNS

    I spoke in depth with filmmaker Ken Burns a few weeks ago about his forthcoming eight-part documentary, Ken Burns: Country Music, which...
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    BLUES SURVIVOR
    By Alan Richard
    • Aug 14, 2019
    • 6 min

    BLUES SURVIVOR

    FEW BLUESMEN AS AUTHENTIC (AND AUDACIOUS) AS BOBBY RUSH: Bobby Rush came from Louisiana and Arkansas, fled to Chicago, played the blues,...
    70 views0 comments
    A TREASURE OF BLACK MUSIC
    By Alan Richard
    • Aug 10, 2019
    • 5 min

    A TREASURE OF BLACK MUSIC

    SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION’S NEWEST MUSEUM SHOWS RELICS OF SOUL, GOSPEL, COUNTRY AND MORE The National Museum of African-American History...
    66 views0 comments
    WHEN GOSPEL GOT FUNKY
    By Alan Richard
    • Jul 7, 2019
    • 6 min

    WHEN GOSPEL GOT FUNKY

    LEGENDARY STAX COLLECTION SHOWS OFF GOOD-NEWS GROOVES One of my favorite soul albums is actually a gospel album. The Gospel Truth: The...
    219 views0 comments
    WILL KIMBROUGH'S 'ALABAMA'
    By Alan Richard
    • Jun 28, 2019
    • 6 min

    WILL KIMBROUGH'S 'ALABAMA'

    Nashville songwriter laments modern-day lynching, finds family in blues and Americana "Picked up by some folks Took to me to the woods...
    392 views0 comments
    RY COODER'S LATEST BLUES, GOSPEL TRIBUTE
    By Alan Richard
    • Jun 23, 2019
    • 3 min

    RY COODER'S LATEST BLUES, GOSPEL TRIBUTE

    Los Angeles-based master guitarist Ry Cooder’s remarkable 2018 album The Prodigal Son is perhaps the best--out of his many--records that...
    143 views0 comments
    MARY BRAGG, KYSHONA: BACK IN GEORGIA
    By Alan Richard
    • Jun 20, 2019
    • 4 min

    MARY BRAGG, KYSHONA: BACK IN GEORGIA

    Two of Nashville's best emerging singer-songwriters, Mary Bragg and Kyshona (Armstrong), brought their show to Eddie’s Attic, the music...
    52 views0 comments
    CASH, COODER SALUTE 'MAN IN BLACK'
    By Alan Richard
    • Jun 17, 2019
    • 4 min

    CASH, COODER SALUTE 'MAN IN BLACK'

    Rosanne Cash told the audience at the Ryman Auditorium how she’d spent 40 years mostly avoiding playing her father’s songs. But the...
    49 views0 comments
    YOLA, THE U.K.'S COUNTRY-SOUL MAVEN
    By Alan Richard
    • Jun 7, 2019
    • 3 min

    YOLA, THE U.K.'S COUNTRY-SOUL MAVEN

    Yola’s melodies and vocals soar on her new record, Walk Through Fire, the most country-soul-focused album of the year (as far as I know),...
    102 views0 comments
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