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Music Life Archive by category "Americana"

5 Quiet Acoustic Guitar Albums for Trying Times

So the other day, a Facebook friend asked for recommendations for a quiet and relaxing acoustic guitar album. My initial reaction was to recommend two of my go-to albums for unwinding. My first recommendation was Little Lion by Brooks Williams. The second was Gravity by Jesse Cook. But after posting…

An Amazing Accidental Throwback Thursday Pandora Playlist…..

A Throwback Thursday Pandora Playlist Ok this is the way things go on this site, Something happens – like this morning when I was leaving for my Target work shift, I put my phone in my pocket something hit my phone and Pandora starting playing. The station it was playing…

Zac Harmon’s Music is Medicine for a Run

The Afternoon Run So after last night’s and this morning’s rain the temperatures today were fairly moderate, so I knew I could run this afternoon. This is really the first week in a long time that I’ve gotten three runs in, so I plotted out a flat course that was…

Possessed by Paul James-Folk from the Texas Hill Country

Now maybe if I had caught this quote in No Depression back in 2010 “If I were to make a list of the 20 most important singer/songwriters of our time, Konrad Wert / Possessed by Paul James, would undoubtedly be among those at the very top.” or this one from…

Hot Rize – When I’m Free

Note to Hot Rize: 24 yrs between albums is too long!! When I started to listen to a lot of music and collecting CDs, thanks to the used CD bins at Tunes in Marlton, in the early 2000s, I found the music of Tim O’Brien, an amazing multi-instrumentalist and…

Jim Hurst and Rob Ickes – Two Bluegrass Masters – “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad”

This afternoon I was listening to the latest release from Breaking Grass Just as Strong. After listening for a while, I went and found a video of the band seems that the band has everything I like fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and bass. Wait! There’s no dobro! But I listened…

Grant Peeples and the Peeples Republik – Punishing the Myth!

Update (2026): Rereading this post reminded me that it’s time to revisit Grant Peeples’ music. When I originally wrote this, Punishing the Myth was his latest release. Since then, Grant has released six more albums, and somewhere along the way I drifted off to other artists. That’s one of the…

This Day in Music – March 17, 1944 – “Happy Birthday John B Sebastian!”

So what can you say about John Sebastian. He had a great run with the Lovin’ Spoonful lots of great hits like: “Do You Believe in Magic”, “Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?”, “Nashville Cats” and many more. He also had a good solo career. Yet many…

Thoughts about Dave Van Ronk “The Mayor of MacDougal Street”

Dave Van Ronk - The Msyor of MacDougsal Street Book

So I want to go and see the Coen Brothers new movie: “Inside Llewyn Davis” and surprisingly my wife does, too. I really don’t think she knows that the story is based on Dave Van Ronk’s memoirs because I don’t think she’s a fan of Van Ronk’s music! Why I…

“Into the Night” with more Canadian Music! – Some Blues from Steve Strongman!!!

Cooling Down with Steve Strongman I tried to get this post written before I went for my run, but that didn’t happen! So now I’ll try to finish it while I’m cooling down—if I can keep the sweat out of my eyes long enough and my fingers can actually hit…