A Song From Neil Young’s Teens Closes His 50th Album
The last song on Second Song is older than almost everything else Neil Young has recorded. I’ll Love You Forever dates from 1964, according...
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The Legendary Ten Seconds: Where the Mellotron Jokes Came From
Twelve Offcuts From a Torquay Folk-Rock Project That Usually Sings About Richard III The first track on The Rejects of Lord Zarquon is called...
Where Truck Driver Lady Came From, and Why A & E Signature Productions Wrote It That Way
A Dutch Producer Writing to a Sixty-Year-Old American Form, and What That Form Requires Truck Driver Lady went up on 25 January 2026, written...
Jontavious Willis Shares a Ballot With John Primer and Jimmie Vaughan
Jontavious Willis performing at the Chicago Blues Festival. The Traditional Blues Male Artist ballot at this year’s Blues Music Awards reads Billy Branch, Rick...
Bonnie Prince Billy Made His Thirty-First Album With Seven Other Singers
Will Oldham performing as Bonnie “Prince” Billy in 2009. The credits for We Are Together Again list seven singers besides Will Oldham. They also...
Pieta Brown Made Her Ninth Album With Two Bon Iver Alumni
Pieta Brown performing with Bo Ramsey. The two people who produced Dreamin’ Of with Pieta Brown are better known for a different kind of...
Twenty Years of Rejected Songs Became Cory Branan’s Seventh Album
Cory Branan performing in Brooklyn. Most songwriters keep a folder of songs that did not make the record. Cory Branan kept his for two...
Why the Glockenspiel Survived: Bed by Stacy Henle and the Craft of a Quiet Folk Single 
Maybe Magic by Ryan Sweezey and a Decade of Unfinished Songs: The Long Version 
Where Deep Blue Sea Came From: Kadi Beth and a Mayday Call Over Dark Water 
Backyard Getaway by Emily Fraser, a Pop-Country Escape: The Long Version