AMERICANA MUSIC

That’s one way to come up with a middle name. It’s no secret that for decades, artist from all sorts of genres, and even actors and other kinds of performers, have used stage names. Marilyn Monroe, Freddie Mercury, Elton John, Eminem and so many others have used them as a tool to create some sort of persona, and it can really work. Even country artists do it… Including Riley Green  whose real name is actually Jonathan Riley Green. He joked […]

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In just over a week (June 11th), we’ll gather at Lucinda’s in New York City’s East Village to celebrate the Bottle Rockets — a band that married Midwestern rock with country and folk, blazing a trail that a lot of great artists have been walking ever since. It’ll come as no shock that we at […]

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John R. Miller The Great Unknowing It seems obvious, if you think about it – time spent away from home (as it tends to increase for touring musicians) leads to a sense of displacement, of unfamiliarity. On his latest album, John R. Miller has found two highly effective ways of dealing with that displacement – […]

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