interview Archive
05 May 2020
Sadler Vaden is Getting ‘Out There’ (Part One)
Guitarist Sadler Vaden has been a member of Jason Isbell’s 400 Unit since 2013. He’s part of the Grammy-winning team that made 2015’s Something More Than Free and the band’s […]
22 Apr 2020
Pimps of Pompe: Hot Jazz Meets Hip-hop
Asheville-based Pimps of Pompe has a unique musical approach. The band takes inspiration from modern hip-hop and rhythm and blues, bending those forms into the style of pre-World War II […]
21 Apr 2020
Up Jumped Three’s Implied Rhythm
Rhythm is traditionally a key component in music. But especially within the jazz idiom, some groups craft a sound that doesn’t include a drummer. In the tradition of trios led […]
10 Apr 2020
New Yorkers in Sheep’s Clothing: The Strangeloves Story (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two… Onstage, the band was a mix of incongruous elements. The typical American audience member of 1965 wouldn’t have known that Australia had neither zebras nor African […]
09 Apr 2020
New Yorkers in Sheep’s Clothing: The Strangeloves Story (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… When it’s suggested that the story sounds like a scene straight out of a motion picture, Feldman agrees. “Listen, our whole career has been something out […]
08 Apr 2020
New Yorkers in Sheep’s Clothing: The Strangeloves Story (Part One)
An edited version of this feature appeared previously in Record Collector. One evening in late November 2018, Lenny Kaye’s phone rang. The music journalist and (since 1971) guitarist for Patti […]
07 Apr 2020
More from My Conversation with Andy Powell of Wishbone Ash
Here’s bonus content from my conversation with Andy Powell, founder and co-lead guitarist of Wishbone Ash. We spoke just moments before the band took the stage in Würzburg, Germany as […]
06 Apr 2020
Wishbone Ash: 50 Years On, Drawing Inspiration from Their Own Classic Era
In the early 1970s, British rock band Wishbone Ash helped usher in the era of twin-lead-guitar groups, a powerful and effective approach that influenced many of rock’s most beloved bands, […]
02 Apr 2020
Che Apalache: Appalachia Meets Argentina
Joe Troop has a finely attuned ear. Seven years ago, the Winston-Salem native and former member of bluegrass group Town Mountain discovered the connections between Appalachian folk music and the […]
29 Mar 2020
Fireside Collective Brings it on Home
This is the third of three short features on Asheville-based artists releasing new albums in March 2020. Jesse Iaquinto released 2014’s Shadows and Dreams using the name Fireside Collective, but […]