Nashville Country: Voices From the Trenches

I read quite a few country music blogs and lately I’ve seen a lot of posts that complain about the current state of country music coming out of Nashville.  I’ve written quite a bit about this myself and more often than not the subject has come up in interviews I’ve conducted with different bands and [...]

Honky Tonk (Cover Song) Blues (2009)

A while back I got criticized for playing the Hank Williams song, Honky Tonk Blues, on HonkyTonkJunkie.com. But how can that be, you ask? It’s Hank Williams and it’s got the words honky tonk in it; wouldn’t that song be tailor-made for the station? Well, yes. Sort of. True, it was written by Hank Williams [...]

What’s In A (Band) Name? (2009)

Excuse me while I have another Andy Rooney moment. If you’re going to have a band you need at least three elements to keep me interested: play great music, have a cool name and be an actual band. This all seems obvious to me but apparently a lot of bands out there either don’t agree, don’t [...]