Steve Hackett | A Genesis in My Bed - The Autobiography | (Wymer Publishing)4 out of 5 Stars Steve Hackett could rightfully be called a journeyman musician. From the time he first picked up his...

Robert Jon & The Wreck | Last Night on the Highway | (Robert Jon Music)3.5 out of Five Stars Southern rock reaches well beyond the familiar signposts established by Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers, The Marshall...

As many musicians will readily attest, a fervent desire to succeed is often accompanied by doubt, frustration and insecurity, qualities that can thwart an artist’s ambitions and diminish their ability to make the kind of music that measures up to...

While the future of TikTok is undetermined, young artists are still reaping the benefits of the wave-making platform. Priscilla Block managed to garner over 300,000 followers and until this week had yet to break into the industry....

D.A. Stern is quirky.  Not in a hipster performative, overdone way but in a “he’s an adorable weirdo” kind of way. Take for instance, his new video “Tall Girlfriend” which was written from a short guy’s perspective about his towering...

Country singer-songwriter John King takes a break from a family vacation to do this interview to discuss his latest single, “Easy,” which was released in May. King is laid back about this disruption to his day off - just like...

“In and around what we now call Nashville is extraordinarily haunted, every inch of it, I think. From the ancient box graves to the ghosts of the more-recent Cherokee and Creek and Shawnee and Chickasaw, there's a lot if you...

When you say the word ‘divorce’ people immediately think of a marriage ending which, in essence, it is. It’s the end of an era and the closing of a chapter in someone’s life.  What they most often...

Colleen Orender has a knack for fusing blues with modern pop. Her influences truly run the gamut, from Judy Garland to Bob Dylan and even Joe Jonas’ DNCE outfit, and planted at the core of such an...

While pretty much anyone making music nowadays has been, and likely still is, pining for the days before live entertainment came to a halt, Fredericksburg, VA's Karen Jonas is embracing days past for reasons a little less despondent and a little...

There's a funny thing about anxiety: it doesn't always manifest itself in the form of frenetic, jittery, loud, and-or visibly messy emotions. Sometimes, folks can appear to weather the inevitabilities of day-to-day life happening on the outside, while anxiety about things...

From Carole King, Sting, Rodney Crowell, Paul Simon, Donald Fagen, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Jimmy Webb, Sammy Cahn, Hal David, Allan Shamblin & Bob Dylan Truth. What is truth? Is there a...