Ian Tyson was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989, and was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, with his former wife and singing partner, Sylvia, in 1992. Tyson became a Member of the Order of Canada in 1994 and in 2003, he received a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, and inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence in 2006.
Two years ago, the duo Peach & Quiet, reached out to the world from their log home on Canada’s West Coast with their debut album, Just Beyond the Shine. In a few short months, that record topped the folk and roots music charts in North America and had airplay around the world. Reviewers raved, calling it “a basket of surprises,” “superb,” “sublime” and “utterly original
A musical romp of a show of stunningly masterful blues guitar, storytelling and a fine array of vocals by an aficionado of guitar, Toby Walker, at the 37-year old Reston-Herndon Folk Club in Northern Virginia, kept the audience captivated, song after song, story after story. Offering up traditional old blues tunes and more contemporary blues of his own, Walker, plucked, bent and made his Huss & Dalton guitar shimmer with a full bag of tricks, honed over decades of playing the usual and unusual haunts in the States and overseas.
Last night at Alexandria, Virginia’s legendary Birchmere Music Hall, Steve Earle and The Dukes rolled out an evening of country roots tangled with an eclectic mix of songs welded together by Earle’s vocals immersed in grit, beautifully crafted songwriting, and his amazing band whose melodic twists and turns, and hot licks “could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch”, in the purloined words of Willie Nelson.
AXS TV gets the fireworks started this July 4TH weekend with the Red, White & Rock! event—an explosive three-day lineup celebrating some of America’s most iconic artists, airing Saturday, July 2 through Monday, July 4. Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Soundgarden, John Fogerty and more!
With songs like “Darkness, Darkness”, “Sunlight”, “Sugarbabe”, “Songird and the Youngblood’s version of “Get Together,” Jesse Colin Young has influenced and shaped the character of American music for over 50 years. Jesse will be touring as an acoustic duo with his daughter Jazzie Young in support of his solo acoustic album, Highway Troubadour, filled with stripped-down versions of such hits as “Darkness, Darkness,” from the Youngbloods’ 1969 album, Elephant Mountain…
Five-decades-running Americana pioneers Nitty Gritty Dirt Band have already played a major role in the preservation and popularity of folk music—their Will The Circle Be Unbroken album series introduced droves of new fans to folk, country, and bluegrass and earned the band multiple Grammy awards—but now, the long-running group have taken on another American institution near and dear to their hearts; the Bob Dylan songbook.
I have always thought of myself in my own way, as being part of the “Washington D.C. Telecaster tradition”. I always brought more than one guitar on a tour or to a concert, and one of them was usually a Telecaster. There would be a part of the show where I would strap on a Telecaster, joke about “it’s Tele time!”
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“In early summer of 1968, I was asked to come to take photos of Bob Dylan at his home in Woodstock, for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. Although he was comfortable with me, he seemed nervous in front of the camera and his uneasiness made it difficult for me. I was never the kind of photographer to talk people into feeling good: I let them be the way they were, and I photographed. Usually it worked out because I flowed with whatever mood they were in, without resistance, until things lightened up.
