All photos by Kristen Abigail The combination of bluegrass songstress Jessica Lea Mayfield and folk legend Seth Avett made for a memorable evening this past Tuesday at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. The duo released Seth Avett and Jessica Lea Mayfield Sing Elliott Smith this past week. It includes 12 cover songs that Mayfield and Avett recorded … Read more
Photo by JJ Gonson Elliott Smith fucks me up. Discovering his music early in my high school career was the second most revelatory music-related moment of my life, and ever since then I’ve had a deep love of the tragic songwriter. “Christian Brothers” from Elliott’s self-titled album has always been one of my favorite of … Read more
Photo | Michael Lavine. If you haven’t heard it straight from the lips of Jon Spencer, THE BLUES IS NUMBER ONE…and that’s not just some cool-as-shit thing for him to yell at your ass while sweating and bouncing around at a Blues Explosion show. For me, “The Blues” is number one, and they’ve been that way ever … Read more
“I don’t see myself as a singer that plays piano,” says Danish singer-songwriter Agnes Obel. “It always feels weird when people refer to me as a singer, because to me being a singer is secondary to the music. The songs and the melodies are the most important to me. But I’m not sure what you … Read more