The songs of Jeffrey Foucault display an earnest, though often tender, Midwestern sensibility. During the past 15 years, this Whitewater, Wisconsin, country-folk troubadour has recorded a handful of critically acclaimed albums spotlighting his carefully crafted original songs. NPR once praised…
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From the August 2016 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY GREG CAHILL Dillon Hodges is a popular electro-pop artist whose recent self-titled album firekid (Atlantic) is the vanguard of a stealth campaign to bring bluegrass music to the masses. The soft-spoken…
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Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley are A-list Nashville pickers. Individually or together, these talented players have contributed to sessions by Merle Haggard, Earl Scruggs, and Toby Keith, among others; organized the annual Nashville-based Resosummit; and picked up a 2016 Best…
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By Greg Cahill Hot on the heels of the vinyl release of four classic albums (including three that are being released on vinyl for the first time), the controversial Dixie Chicks have embarked on their first headlining US tour in…
From the July 2016 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By GREG CAHILL When NASA rocketed a gold-plated album into the cold, dark reaches of space aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1977, the space agency chose to showcase Earth’s music, including…
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In 1970, a scraggly, anti-heroic young man from North Carolina by way of Massachusetts began presenting a biting and dark-yet-comforting new sound, a kind never heard before. Within a year of his first major album, Sweet Baby James, the rock…
It was the Laurel Canyon of the Catskills. In 1969, the forested artist community of Woodstock, in upstate New York, contributed its name to a nearby music festival that many regard as the apex of the 1960s counterculture. Even the…
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By Greg Cahill There’s an ancient wisdom to the songs of Chaim Tannenbaum. After five decades behind the scenes, Tannenbaum has quietly become a folk-music legend, of sorts. This expert multi-instrumentalist has been a longtime collaborator of the Wainwright-McGarrigle family…
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The Wild Reeds—Kinsey Lee, Sharon Silva, and Mackenzie Howe—have released a new three-song EP, Best Wishes. Listen to “What I Had in Mind” from the EP. “‘What I Had in Mind’ came to me at midnight as an extended vocal diary entry…
An ancient folk song chronicling boating misadventures, “Sloop John B” was transformed into a chamber-pop classic when the Beach Boys recorded the tune and released it on their groundbreaking 1966 album Pet Sounds. Before then, the song—originally called “The John…
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By Greg Cahill 30 years ago, Dwight Yoakam and Steve Earle released their debut albums. Nashville has never been the same “I first met Steve Earle in 1985 at a George Strait concert. Steve had come out from Nashville to…
Sunshine, good friends, and bluegrass music. It doesn’t any better than this. Acoustic Guitar senior editor Mark Kemp is at MerleFest 2016 on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. The acts today include John Prine, Peter…
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