Los Angeles Singer-songwriter, Henry Zhao Releases Instant Multiversal Emergency Eradication
With the new EP release, Instant Multiversal Emergency Eradication, prolific singer-songwriter, Henry Zhao
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John Prine: An Appreciation
John Prine: An Appreciation Illustration, Mandy Newham-Cobb Words, Terry Paul Roland John Prine was a gentleman songwriter whose love for life shot through his music like light beams. He was the middleman between hope and […]
Kinky Friedman: Deep in the Heart of Texas
By Terry Paul Roland As the sun sets in Southern California, Kinky Friedman is restless. On the first leg of a national tour in support of his pending release, Circus of Life (his first album […]
Chris Hillman’s Still Flying High on New Album, Bidin’ My Time
By Terry Roland Chris Hillman’s first solo album in a decade provides a roadmap through his 55-year career. Never one to base his work on the past, Hillman has brought to the album, continuity, with […]
Songwriter Jack Tempchin’s Peaceful Easy Feeling
By Terry Roland With the release of Peaceful Easy Feeling: The Songs of Jack Tempchin, the soulfully seasoned singer-songwriter is experiencing a career renaissance that defies the conventional musical biography story that has the songwriter […]
Tom Petty: An Appreciation
By Terry Paul Roland When he took the stage and the music began, if you listened closely, through the drums, the organ, the electric guitars, you could hear thunder, feel its movement, you could see […]
Don Williams: An Appreciation
By Terry Roland Thank God for singers of songs. In past music eras, they were the stars. Frank Sinatra and Elvis are two iconic examples of singers who most songwriters would give up their first-born […]
Legends: Glen Campbell
By Terry Paul Roland If life is merely a passage, as I believe it is, then once the journey through this valley of tears has ended, “A better place awaits, you’ll see,” as Glen Campbell […]
Terry Allen’s Juarez
By Terry Roland Imagine a stormy West Texas night. A freak storm has just hit in the middle of August. Monsoon winds blow through from Mexico. We are in a near empty room with fading […]
Sam Bush: The Heart of the Huck Finn Jubilee
Sam Bush: The Heart of the Huck Finn Jubilee By Terry Roland Regarding New Grass and Bluegrass a story told by Sam Bush relates how bluegrass Founding Father, Bill Monroe, after hearing the tradition-bending sound […]
Del McCoury Brings His Own Brand of Bluegrass to the Huck Finn Jubilee
By Terry Paul Roland Talking with Del McCoury is like spending an hour with a favorite uncle you haven’t connected with in years. He’s congenial, funny and quick with scattered stories of his historic past. […]
Brian Wright: Rattle Their Chains
Brian Wright: Rattle Their Chains By Terry Roland In the world today, what’s new is new. If it shines, we love it. But, what’s new becomes gradually and increasingly old, by the minute. In the […]
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