Dolly. Tammy. Willie. Hank. Waylon. Merle. Country superstars instantly recognisable just from their first name. Here’s another one: Loretta. The only female artist to chart in six decades, The Coal Miner’s Daughter, Loretta Lynn is still going strong as a pioneering and formidable singer, songwriter and performer, turning 84 years old on April 14. ‘Loretta […]
Actress, singer, songwriter and musical icon, Cyndi Lauper, has reached over 50 million global record sales thanks to her much-loved and critically acclaimed writing and performances. Her career has spanned 30 years, she has been inducted into both the Hollywood and Songwriters Hall of Fame, creating Hey Now (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun), True Colours,
Making Magic Hyde Park in the summertime: An audience of 50,000. Andrea Corr holds the microphone out to the crowd and asks them to sing along with her. She smiles and glows with the Corr family’s natural charm but her nerves are clear too – no sound-check, no large-scale performance in ten years and weeks
Nightbird On November 2, 1996 music lovers across the world lost one of their most treasured and loved artists. Yet, the tragedy is that at the time, they were still to discover her wealth of talent. To commemorate 20 years since Eva Cassidy’s passing, Megan Gnad speaks to her family, label and admirers, about her
Starting Over Charlotte Taylor meets with bluesman, Walter Trout, to talk about overcoming his extremely close brush with death, the emotional new album BATTLE SCARS that followed and a subsequent tour that Walter “never would have considered” whilst lying on his hospital bed. BATTLE SCARS is Walter Trout’s 42nd album release; a blues guitar icon,
Singer-songwriter Amy Speace got her big break in music when she was spotted by Judy Collins. She didn’t actually start writing music until she was about 28 years old; she had enrolled at college to study English and Theatre but was still unsure of her future path in life. “I didn’t know what I wanted
8, 9 & 10 August 2013 Fairport’s Cropredy Convention is widely acclaimed as the ultimate celebration of folk-rock. Yet, increasingly, the tens of thousands of music-loving folkies who invade the normally tranquil village of Cropredy in North Oxfordshire for three days each August, are treated to a more eclectic range of quality music. Festival founders
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New To You… JULES WINCHESTER It is not often that respected professional musicians press me to interview someone who just released a first album-but that is what happened after Jules Winchester launched SOMETHING IN THOSE EYES, her debut album. The record is a joy, as has been widely recognised by the music press. Every track
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A film by Sara Terry Sara Terry, the producer/director of FOLK, is an award winning journalist-in print, public radio, and photojournalism. FOLK is her second documentary. The project web site describes FOLK as “a verite character study, part music documentary, part road trip movie-a multi-layered examination of three artists at dramatically different points in their
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Taylor Hicks takes the Nashville road to new album If the music industry is a game of chess, then Taylor Hicks is the black knight, carving an indirect path across the board. Equally as likely to move forward as back, he is more than likely to give his hips a good shake as he goes.
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