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Last Year Was 'a Son of a Bitch' for Jason Isbell, but He Ain’t Hidin’

By Mike Seely
Sep 14, 2017

Jason Isbell plays Bomb Factory on Saturday, Sept. 23 Jason Isbell lived in the blood-red South for all of his 38 years and has no plans to leave, even though he's a Democrat and the father of a mixed-race daughter in a "white man’s world," to borrow the title from the...
The 10 Best Songs from Awful Musicians

By Mike Seely
Jul 9, 2014

Via Wiki CommonsStopped clocks are right twice a day. Geoffrey Arend is married to Christina Hendricks. Performance artists get federal funding. Canada is south of Detroit. People wear Google Glass and think they look awesome. Some things you just can't explain, like how really shitty bands occasionally luck into recording...
The 10 Biggest Douchebags in Country Music

By Mike Seely
Jul 1, 2014

Courtesy of the label Mainstream country music gets an unfair rap as being universally over-polished and formulaic, a notion that artists like Kacey Musgraves and Eric Church obliterate every time they strap on their guitars. But there's a granule of truth to the stereotype, and a particularly damaging sub-genre -- known as "bro-country" -- is...
The Rise of the Living-room Concert

For touring musicians, the ease and profitability of living-room concerts prove there is no place like someone else's home.

By Mike Seely
Nov 7, 2013

Road-weary and cash poor, Caitlin Cary and Thad Cockrell just needed a comfortable place to play — and stay — in St. Louis in July 2005. Or at least that's how Cary remembers it. "I'm pretty sure something either got canceled or we were really broke and didn't want to...
The Striking Similarities Between James McMurtry and Bad Blake.

By Mike Seely
Dec 9, 2010

In Crazy Heart, Jeff Bridges plays a past-his-prime country singer named Bad Blake, who ekes out a living by playing bowling alleys and saloons throughout the American Southwest. So notorious a lush is Blake that the venues he plays typically refuse to comp him drinks for fear that he'll more...

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