Welcome back, Teardrops! Feels good to have you all here. Adobe & Teardrops will now be a bi-monthly (every 2 weeks) podcast, and I’m so honored to have Lilli Lewis with me to re-inaugurate the show. Lewis is a veteran…

As we move into the autumn of another turbulent year, we’ve got some music to help us slow down. This month I was drawn to music that pushed the envelope a little — music that quested and questioned the very…

A bit of a late playlist today but — life happens. And it’s been happening for 10 years, and this blog is still going strong. As Adobe & Teardrops approaches its 10th anniversary this December, I’ve been thinking about the…

Country music has a well-earned reputation for being cheesy, blatantly commercial, and alienating to…well, it’s easier to describe who it doesn’t force out: cishet white people. But! It doesn’t have to be this way, and never did. That’s the whole…

Two nights ago, the country music world shifted. Like most tectonic movements, we may not see it for a while. But with the Black Opry‘s first-ever Revue at New York City’s Rockwood Music Hall, Holly G has gathered a few…