"As a musician, Townes Van Zandt was legendary, perhaps one of the greatest who ever lived, inspiring artists from Bob Dylan to Norah Jones to Steve Earle. As a man, a husband, and a father his life was as tragic and as beautiful as the songs he wrote. Townes was an enigma to his...
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Featuring documentary and performance footage, captures the outlaw country music movement of the 1970s and its most representative figures.
Representing almost every genre of popular music, from blues to pop to rock, here are sixty-two figures who have shaped American music. They share their secrets and personal methods for converting inspiration into song: Robbie Robertson and Tom Petty talk about working with Bob D...
"Other people locked themselves away and hid from their demons. Townes flung open his door and said, 'Come on in. So writes Harold Eggers, Townes Van Zandt's longtime road manager and producer, in My Years with Townes Van Zandt: Music, Genius, and Rage a gripping memoir revealing...
After fifteen years of touring with the beloved Hot Band, Emmylou Harris formed the Nash Ramblers, a new acoustic all-star group, in 1990, featuring Sam Bush (fiddle, mandolin, vocals), Roy Huskey Jr. (bass), Larry Atamanuik (drums), Al Perkins (dobro, banjo, vocals), and Jon Ran...
Featuring documentary and performance footage, captures the outlaw country music movement of the 1970s and its most representative figures.
Burrow's forthcoming release, The Way The West Was Won, zooms in on his strength as a storyteller. Produced by Grammy winner Lloyd Maines and featuring guest appearances from Ray Wylie Hubbard, Kelly Willis, and Jim Lauderdale, it's a richly imaginative collection of cowboy songs...
“The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over. The poets of today are amplified." - LEONARD COHEN Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson's Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) offers up an amplified g...