I guess that The National Reserve could be a part of the national park system. Or maybe something related to the military. Right? Well, sure, but The National Reserve is also a music group. A really good music group from…

Song 33 of this blog featured Dead Man Winter, which is kind of the side project for Dave Simonette. David Simonette is also the leader of Trampled By Turtles, which is a very successful new-school bluegrass group. Both Dead…

I know virtually nothing about Matty Charles & Katie Rose. Except this: Matty wrote a song called What I Want, and Matty and Katie recorded it. And it's about the sweetest song you could imagine. Somewhere between country, folk…

So, when Paul McCartney wrote When I'm Sixty-Four, I'm pretty sure that he wasn't really thinking that 64 would actually show up. I mean, who can imagine that? But, sure enough, it showed up for Paul in 2006. And…

Dispatch has kind of taken an odd route to stardom. The ridiculously talented trio came together at Middlebury College back in 1996 and had some level of success until 2002. Then they tried to breakup. But they weren't very successful…

I saw my favorite duo yesterday - - playing as a trio. Nick Gunty and Brian Powers, who are the group Frances Luke Accord, played Bourbon and Branch last night, in a not-quite-sold-out show, with their occasional percussionist, Luke Jackson.…

Last May, after the NonComm-vention hosted by WXPN, I wrote a post on Baskery, who were a highlight of last year's three day music industry event. In that post, I mentioned that, in addition to Baskery, the event was…

I saw Brett Dennen today. Nick Gunty (one-half of Frances Luke Accord) and I stopped by World Cafe Live (the music venue) to listen to a taping of a World Cafe (the syndicated radio program) session with Brett Dennen.…

I've pretty much always liked country music. I mean, even when I was nine and ten and then a teenager, when rock and pop and The Beatles were raging, and when I was buying each and every Beatles' album as…

John Mayer is one of those guys who's immensely popular. Huge. But I never really jumped on the Mayer wagon. I'm not sure why. But, after way too long, I finally heard the song that I needed to hear to…

When I first heard Miss K on the radio several years, it was love at first sound. I mean,Miss K is pretty much the perfect 21st Century pop song. Yep, the lyrics are a little racier than the typical…

I saw Those Darlins way back in 2014 at WXPN's Non-COMM-vention. They were one of those groups that I had never heard of before, but were absolutely fabulous in concert. Really, it's one of the best things about Non-COMM. For…