Caamp: Tiny Desk Concert
Led by Taylor Meier’s soft, raspy voice, the folk band shares a range of material, including an old song that still rings true a decade later.
Caamp: Tiny Desk Concert
Led by Taylor Meier’s soft, raspy voice, the folk band shares a range of material, including an old song that still rings true a decade later.
Country Music Hall of Fame Sets Announcement for New 2026 Inductees
The announcement will come via a press conference from the Hall of Fame rotunda in Nashville. Hall of Fame inductee Marty Stuart will be hosting the announcement, and it will be live streamed online. Source: savingcountrymusic.com
Exploratorium
Play with the physics of perception at Frank Oppenheimer’s Exploratorium in this captivating, Oscar-nominated short from 1974 – by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon Source: aeon.co
Play Ball!Episode #26-11 airing 03-18-26
Someone once said that the four most beautiful words in the English language are “Pitchers and catchers report!” Whether you buy into that or not, it’s getting to be the time of year for the annual baseball program. We hope you’ll enjoy songs from Greg Brown, Chuck Brodsky, John McCutcheon, Danielle Miraglia, Steve Goodman, and […]
Three brand new indie folk singer songwriters you’ll want to share with friends
Lonely Mountain – “Night Passage”-I don’t typically approve songs with a longer introduction, so when I do it’s because the rest of the song is SO GOOD I couldn’t pass it up. That’s the case with this outstanding track from Lonely Mountain. It carries some of the characteristics of what I call artful folk. It’s […]
‘We built a castle on stage complete with battlements’: how 80s German thrash bands pushed metal to new extremes
As Metallica et al broke through, Kreator, Sodom and Destruction were forging an even harder sound. They recall gigs in coalmines, sessions in steelworks – and boozing with Slayer The noise might have been building since the early 80s, but 1986 was the year thrash metal broke – bursting like a zit on a teenage […]
New Album of Waylon Jennings “Dukes of Hazzard” Recordings Coming
During Shooter’s search for unreleased gold, he also came across the original recordings of lines of “The Balladeer” for the first two episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard, complete with instrumental tracks. Source: savingcountrymusic.com
Hayes Carll Takes Reins for Ray Benson at 75th Birthday Bash
If it wasn’t for Ray Benson and his long-running band Asleep At The Wheel, the term “Western Swing” might have been completely forgotten in the country music lexicon, let alone the vocabulary of America. Source: savingcountrymusic.com
‘Prince laughed like a kid as I painted “Free” on his stomach’: Steve Parke’s best photograph
‘The art director wanted it to read “1999”. But Prince wasn’t having that. So the next thing I knew, I was writing “Free” on him with my fingers in cold paint’ I grew up loving Prince’s music and remember thinking: “I’m gonna work for that guy one day.” Through high school and college I photographed […]