Trail Mix – May 2019
Trail Mix returns with new tunes from Molly Tuttle, Lucette, Jimmie Vaughan, Ona, Lowland Hum, and many more!...
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Queen Bee & The Honeylovers – Live in Asheville!!
I am a student of history, so when an artist takes on historical material as songwriting inspiration, of course I get interested.Whitney Moore, lead singer...
Trail Mix – Heron
Boyd Lewis, of Pennsylvania post-rockers Heron, swings by the Trail Mix blog to chat up the band's new record....
Trail Mix – Tim Baker
Go ahead. Ask me who my favorite band from Newfoundland is.Well, Hey Rosetta! of course!Now, for full disclosure, I have to admit that Hey Rosetta! was...
Trail Mix – April 2019
"If I can't dance with you, then I won't dance at all. I'll just sit this one out, with my back to the wall."Whether it was penning one of the finest love ...
Trail Mix – Kevin Daniel
Don't all singer-songwriters have roots in bluegrass, punk, ska, jazz, and acapella groups?Maybe not, but North Carolina's Kevin Daniel surely does. With r...
Trail Mix – Jane Kramer
The deeper the well, the better the song.Most of my favorite songwriters have the incredible ability to explore their darkest shadows, those inner nook...
Trail Mix – Zaq Suarez
Regrettably, I hopped on the Zaq Suarez train a bit late.I fell in love with the former Asheville based songwriter's last band, The Hermit Kings, just befo...
Trail Mix – March 2019
When looking back at all the stories I have written for this magazine, perhaps the most memorable, and most powerful, was the one I wrote about Leo Welch.I...
On The Road With The Steel Woods & Ticket Giveaway!
The Southern rock tradition is alive and well.Carrying on in the tradition of Southern musical heroes Lynyrd Skynyrd and The ...
Trail Mix: Amy McCarley
On the morning of April 14th, 1981, my third grade classmates and I packed on to buses and headed to the dry lake bed that was home to the flight line at Edwar...
Trail Mix: New Albums and Rhiannon Giddens
New Albums by the musicians you want to listen to.
Rhiannon Giddens Returns with New Collaboration, Our Native Daughters
Rhiannon Giddens first emerged in the...
Trail Mix – February 2019
Trail Mix smacks that polar vortex right in the kisser with brand new tunes from Ryan Bingham, Darlingside, Dale Watson, Liz Brasher, Galactic, The Way Down Wanderers, and many more! ...
Trail Mix: The Dustbowl Revival at January Jams + Ticket Giveaway!
One might think that The State Theater of Virginia would be in one of the metropolitan hubs on the eastern side of the state.
Nope. Instead, one would have to ...
Trail Mix: Maya De Vitry – Song Premiere
Acoustic trio The Stray Birds have long been a favorite of mine.
I first heard of the band on my one visit to IBMA, in 2013, and the band turned up on Trail Mi...