When the last notes of “I Will Not Be Denied” rang out I had to drop what I was doing. That’s it. We’re done here. I thought. Here’s the best album of 2013. If you saw yesterday’s list then that…

Adobe and Teardrops’s third anniversary (on December 12) completely passed me by! Happy birthday to me! Between my own blogger bubble and my kids’ insistence on listening to the Drake channel on Pandora in class, I don’t really get to…

I’ve always felt bad that I haven’t been a better fan of Carbon Leaf. I their double live album, 5 Alive!, has been a faithful companion for many years now. But I’ve never made it out to their shows, nor…

Those of you playing along at home may have noticed that the music that’s been featured here lately has been sad bastard music-ish. Not even sad bastard, really. More like thoughtful bastard, or musing bastard. Eff that noise, though. I…

The other night I watched the American Country Awards because I… a) am a masochist b) had two 90-minute lesson plans to create for an increasingly hostile class c) wanted to see what was going on in lamestream country d)…