San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Financier Warren Hellman opened his eighth annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park on the main stage Saturday, telling a story about recovering a prized banjo 30 years after he lost it, and then picking some with a few other musicians. "...
Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Gram Parsons interview on how he met Emmylou Harris. Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris - That's All It Took Check out many of their duets at YouKnowWhere . A very good source for records by Gram, The International Submarine Band, Byrds, Flying Burrito Bros., Clarence White, and many others is Sierra Records in Southern California. Gram came to an untimely end. What happened next was a big deal in SoCal...
NBC11.com - Local News (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
But what Hellman has created is the most amazing music festival in the world. He has endowed San Francisco with a weekend of the finest acoustic music from all over the country, building a repertory company out of the top names in American folk music - Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, Hazel Dickens, Emmylou Harris (Doc Watson will return next year) - and filling out the bills on the festival's five stages...
The Concert Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: Featuring Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris and dozens of others, 2:30 p.m., Oct. 3, 11 a.m. Oct. 4-5, Speedway, Marx and Lindley meadows, Golden Gate Park, free, www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com. San Francisco Jazz Festival: The 26th annual event features Randy Newman, Dave Brubeck, more, Oct. 3-Nov. 9, various locations, ticket prices vary, 866-920-5299, [...]...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
When Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello and Emmylou Harris are sitting in the nightclub balcony, you can bet there's a heavy-duty act onstage. Guitarist Ry Cooder making his first appearance in around 20 years Thursday at the Great American Music Hall qualifies as...
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Guitar legend Albert Lee played at Greenwich Dance Agency last week. Lee is best known for his work playing with Emmylou Harris and Eric Clapton. He was born in Shropshire but grew up in South East London. He told last week's South London Press (26 September 2008) that his family were driven out of Greenwich by a V1 rocket bomb in World War Two, but moved back after the war to live in Tunnel Avenue....
Obscure Sound - Indie Music Blog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The aspect of collaboration can be a touchy subject for some artists. Some prefer to languish in their own solitude, crafting songs that are entirely their own with little to no help outside the spectrum of production and mastering. Others, however, discover that pushing the boundaries to make their music as fulfilling as possible may [...]
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Nashville, TN -- Billy Bob Thornton and his band, the Boxmasters, have been confirmed to host the Country Music Hall of Fame(r) and Museum's second annual All for the Hall New York benefit at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square on Wednesday, October 15. Musical performers include Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris. ...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Warren Hellman, who funds the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, got an MP3 file in his e-mail recently. Kathy Goll-Derstine, a student in a songwriting class led by veteran folkie Carol McComb, had written a song, "Joy for Free,"...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
A few weeks ago, we gave you a comprehensive eight-page pullout section on the Outside Lands Music Festival. Now comes another Golden Gate Park musical extravaganza - and another eight-page pullout section - with one big difference for you: This festival is...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
CLEARWATER - The stage set wasn't much to look at – a couple of chairs and tables, speaker cabinets, microphones and guitars.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
These days he's the king of Nashville, but in those days Vince Gill often walked the streets of Cincinnati.
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Nashville, TN -- On Wednesday, October 15, Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris will perform at the second annual All for the Hall New York benefit for the Country Music Hall of Fame(r) and Museum. Presented as an old-fashioned "guitar pull," the benefit at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square will feature songs, stories, unique musical collaborations and memories from some of country music's...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Once called the rock Venus, Linda Ronstadt is now solidly at home with mariachi music.
Freeborn John (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
How Gram Parsons met Emmylou Harris: And she is beautiful.
