“It’s hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the compositions of guitarist Bill Frisell,” The New York Times wrote in 1991. In the ensuing decades the guitarist and composer has lived up to that praise time and time again...
“Why is cowboy music important?” Swallow Hill Music Instructor Mike Jagel asked rhetorically as he looked out from under his ten gallon hat. “There’s a lot of reasons. To me the most important reason is I love the music.” “The...
When Phil Wiggins and George Kilby Jr. share a stage there’s more than music going on. Sure, audiences hear great music from these genre-hopping veterans, but as George tells it, you’ll also get to sit in on one of their conversations. When holding such a...
Hailing from southern Utah near Zion National Park, 3hattrio, in their words, “plays American Desert Music.” In its brief existence, the trio has staked out a sound that draws from their diverse musical backgrounds to create a modern and timeless musical...
Bob Dylan and folk music are so firmly entwined it is sometimes easy to forget that he’s every bit the the shape-shifting pop star as David Bowie or Lady Gaga. Whether you prefer the young Woody Guthrie disciple, the 1960s counterculture poet, or the...
