"Will power. With strength of will you can do anything. With willpower you can determine your destiny." --Bob Dylan...
Thunder On The Mountain: Interview with Widespread Panic’s Dave Schools
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Dispatches
Bad As Me: Tom Waits
By James Calemine Bad As Me, the 22nd studio release by Tom Waits earned the highest chart appearance–#6 on...
Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman
By James Calemine This recording captures Levon Helm’s band live at the Ryman Auditorium on September 17, 2008. The...
Neal Casal’s Sweeten The Distance
By James Calemine I wrote this review in 2012 when Sweeten The Distance was released, and right before I interviewed...
Jonathan Wilson: Gentle Spirit
Gentle Spirit was recorded on analog and released on vinyl as a double album.
The Neal Casal Interview
By James Calemine Neal Casal stands as a musical journeyman. He released his tenth solo album titled Sweeten The...
The Chitlin’ Circuit And The Road To Rock-N-Roll
These close-to-the-bone stories reveal lives of trailblazers on the chitlin circuit involving a coordinated tour of sawdust ballrooms, dice parlors, juke joints and neighborhood bars throughout the south and beyond.
James Lee Burke: Burning Angel
By James Calemine James Lee Burke’s Burning Angel revolves around detective Dave Robicheaux. AA attending Robicheaux...
Larry Brown’s Facing The Music
Larry Brown’s Facing The Music contains ten short stories. Published in 1988, Facing The Music counts as the first...
Neil Young: Le Noise
By James Calemine “You can either be true to your art, or be a good public relations man,” Neil Young said years...
Glen Campbell: Ghost on the Canvas
"Don't go to any trouble You know I won't be here long." --Glen Campbell Glen Campbell was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s...
Music Maker’s Sisters of the South
Sisters of the South contains 13 songs performed by 12 different female Music Maker artists. Every song on this...