ALL PHOTOS BY JASON GONULSEN The Lampedusa tour hit the Sheldon Concert Hall last night, and it brought a surprise guest: Robert Plant. The St. Louis stop was billed as Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller, and the Milk Carton Kids, but Griffin had to cancel due to a medical issue. I’d say … Read more
RollingStone.com is reporting that Neil Young’s next album will be produced by Daniel Lanois, a surefire dream pairing that will most likely result in a “very heartfelt record,” according to David Crosby. Lanois produced Emmylou Harris’ breakthrough album, Wrecking Ball, which was named after one of Young’s songs. As you might know, Young is set … Read more
As if she hasn’t conquered enough in her career as a singer-songwriter, Austin’s Patty Griffin has a new surprise for all of us: a gospel album. Griffin’s seventh solo trek, Downtown Church, will hit stores and the Interwebs on January 26th, and you can bet it’s quite the departure from 2007’s Children Running Through. There … Read more
I adored Tift Merritt’s last studio effort, Another Country, so much that I recently called it one of the best singer-songwriter albums of the last decade. Her album clearly spoke to me with tunes like “Keep You Happy,” “Broken,” and “Hopes Too High,” and it reminded me so much of Neil Young’s Comes a Time, … Read more
“I feel your love, I feel your strong love. I feel the patience of unconditional love.” A lot has happened to Neil Young in 2010. He lost friend and producer L.A. Johnson to a heart attack in January, and just last July, his long-time pedal steel expert, the great Ben Keith, also passed. Young’s also … Read more
Photo Credit: Erica Beckman Sometimes I think of how life must have been for you here What life could have been like for you here What life should have been like here with you On November 9th, 1938, Clare Burson’s grandmother, Helga Rabinowitsch, left Leipzig, Germany, for the United States. Rabinowitsch fled moments before the … Read more
In the interest of full disclosure: I’ve never been much of a John Denver fan. However, when you pair Brandi Carlile and Emmylou Harris, you have my full, undivided attention. Which is why I’m writing about “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” Denver’s song that Carlile and Harris have no problem solving with their artistic gifts. … Read more
New year, new music. And it’s coming, fast. Can you feel your pulse racing? All those albums that are about to impact your life. Because you know they will; they always do. 2013 will be no different. Here’s what our eyes and ears are on. January 8th Wooden Wand, Blood Oaths of the New Blues … Read more
Photo by David McClister Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell recently released the fantastic Old Yellow Moon, which gave us the fabulous “Spanish Dancer,” a song so perfect that I need to introduce it to you right now. Let’s have a listen. Harris and Crowell, with special guest Richard Thompson Electric Trio, will be performing at … Read more
Last August, we interviewed singer-songwriter Alyssa Graham, where she talked about her newly-released EP and her love for Neil Young (who, of course, is a favorite here at SIC). Well, today is a big day for Graham, as the full-length album of that aforementioned EP, Lock, Stock & Soul, has been released to the world … Read more
TV on the Radio’s album art for Nine Kinds of Light Back on our first birthday, we published a list of 25 albums over which we were salivating. We’ve barely had time to mop up our drool from January, February, and March’s all-star releases, and now we’re back, in similar fashion, with another … Read more
You will miss sunrise if you close your eyes and that would break my heart in two Choosing to cover Townes Van Zandt is pretty popular these days. But when you do it beautifully, as Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle do on their new album, We Still Love Our Country, it sounds as fresh as … Read more
Canadian singer-songwriter Lindi Ortega isn’t a country artist, but she’s a got a little Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, and Waylon Jennings in her. Of course, Emmylou swears she isn’t even country these days, so I’m obviously digging myself a hole here. Or, maybe I just don’t know how to categorize artists like Ortega these days. … Read more
Back in May, we made Lindi Ortega’s “Little Lie” our Jam of the Day, and since, the tune has been featured in USA Today’s playlist, and been talked about all over the blogosphere. We aren’t surprised. Ortega’s a sassy and talented artist, one that is going to win over plenty of fans in 2011. The … Read more