Eric Taylor: One of the finest lyricists I’ve ever known. Scuffletown still transfixes me, after all this time. Bottom line: American literature, plus guitar. And once he bailed me out…View post

The other night driving home in the dark and the fat accumulating snow I found myself behind a small cavalcade of three cars moving with a tentative slowness that seemed…View post

Fresh video from Kathleen Edwards album due out in January 2012 (and a little backstory here) :

Sometimes you put aside hype and snark and irony and criticism and just say, hey man, we’re happy for you: Our local big news, via Volume One.

Diffracted and distracted, dispurposed and dyspeptic, then Townes Van Zandt came on and the compass settled on point.