Author Archives: Echoes Staff

Rob Miller The Hours Are Long But The Pay Is Low – A Curious Life In Independent Music    There are 27+ compelling little chapters to this story, told with enthusiasm & nostalgia with an inspired delivery. Even the introduction has some sharp sentences about what the music perceives to be. Music, commercially, has been […]

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  Mark Davidson was an adjunct professor at the University of Texas and working for historian Douglas Brinkley as a research assistant in the summer of 2017 when he found a job in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that seemed like the right fit. The previous year, Bob Dylan had sold his vast archive to the George Kaiser […]

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Afton Wolfe  Ophiuchus Admirers of Tom Waits & singers of that ilk will find Afton interesting. While his voice is not like “Louis Armstrong” as Tom Waits is, he does have a raw, indulgent tone that’s absorbing as it accompanies a light guitar touch & deft storytelling. His range is fragile, but that’s part of […]

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The music community continues to mourn the passing of Todd Snider, with countless stories emerging about how supportive he was of fellow musicians and songwriters. He put that generosity on full display in the early 2010s with the formation of Hard Working Americans, teaming up with Widespread Panic’s Dave Schools, the late guitarist Neal Casal, […]

He thought giving back the trophy would bring closure. Instead, it reopened old wounds. Continue reading…

Remaining singers were asked to perform in groups but it was the original songs that decided who stayed and who went home. Continue reading…

Billy Strings didn’t need to air the personal business of his deceased mother in public. But Billy’s choice to reveal her cause of death shows the wisdom of this young man.

The post Why Billy Strings’ Revelations About Mother’s Death Are So Important first appeared on Saving Country Music.

Koe Wetzel is getting the job DONE. Koe Wetzel often spends his time off the road in the woods hunting, and over the years, he’s harvested some phenomenal animals. While Wetzel is an outdoorsman of all kinds, loving both hunting and fishing, I always look forward to the hunting season to see some of these beautiful animals he takes home. Wetzel has one tour date left on the books for 2025, December 4 at WCOL Winter Wonder Jam, and he’s […]

The post Koe Wetzel Harvests Big Illinois Buck: “Love Getting To Chase These Midwest Monsters” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Mountain lions (also called pumas and cougars in different parts of the world) can be extremely difficult to catch on camera… but these two just happened to be in the right place at the right time. As the story goes, a man and his dog were driving near their home in Alberta, Canada when the driver slowed down his car to take in the sight of something that was moving mighty fast through the snowy landscape ahead. He was able […]

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Sharing some heartbreaking news regarding his mother’s unexpected death. Earlier this summer, Billy Strings, whose real name is William Lee Apostol, informed the world that his mother tragically passed away. Just 20 hours after Strings returned home to Michigan for the Charlotte Bluegrass Festival on June 19, Billy Strings’ mother took her final breath in the morning of June 20. Later that night, Billy Strings hit the stage in Lexington, Kentucky, and vulnerably shared with his audience why he seemed […]

The post Billy Strings Opens Up On His Mother’s Tragic Overdose: “I Don’t Understand, Guess I Never Will” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.