Moon Taxi On World Cafe
You might be tempted to call World Cafe's Sense of Place: Nashville guest Moon Taxi a jam band — that is, if its instrumental excursions weren't so concise, carefully thought-out and frequently refined...
View ArticleBuddy Miller And Jim Lauderdale On World Cafe
Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale have contributed to roots music to an immeasurable degree throughout their careers.
View ArticleCountry Music Hall Of Fame On World Cafe
So you think you know country music? Our friend Michael Gray, curator at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tenn., will tell you what you need to know in just a few music-filled minutes. The...
View ArticleEmmylou Harris And Rodney Crowell Get The Old Band Together Again
It was 1975 when Emmylou Harris had to figure out how to make a solo album after her classic work as Gram Parsons' duet partner. Her record company told her to "get a hot band." So she got The Hot Band...
View ArticleNext: Escondido
It's not as if Escondido members Jessica Maros and Tyler James didn't have enough going on already. Maros is a thriving fashion designer in Nashville, Tenn., known for dressing Lady Antebellum and...
View ArticleLady Lamb The Beekeeper On World Cafe
The name Lady Lamb the Beekeeper came to singer-songwriter Aly Spaltro in a dream. When the Maine native emerged from the DVD-store basement where she'd been experimenting with music for several years,...
View ArticleJesse Dee: From The South By Way Of Boston, A Vintage R&B Sound
Jesse Dee grew up in Boston — far from the South, where the music he loves has its roots — and could never quite shake the '50s and '60s R&B he'd heard on the radio as a kid. He started writing his...
View ArticleThe James Hunter Six: 'Minute By Minute,' A Classic Soul Sound
James Hunter fell in love with vintage R&B during his youth in England, with his grandmother's records providing a foundation. Hunter sang in workingman's clubs and got a break in the early '90s,...
View ArticleShovels And Rope: A Husband And Wife, A Homemade Sound
Husband and wife Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst had their own careers going — his with the band The Films and hers solo. Then they started performing together, just the two of them, and found that...
View ArticleLatin Roots: Fado Creates 'Nostalgia For The Present Moment'
Today, we welcome singer-songwriter, Grammy-nominated producer and record-company owner Rachel Faro, who visits World Cafe to discuss the Portuguese tradition of Fado.Fado began in Lisbon and has been...
View ArticleEels: A 'Wonderful, Glorious' Look At Life
The last few years have found Mark Oliver Everett of Eels doing more than a bit of summing up. That includes an autobiography, Things the Grandchildren Should Know, as well as an anthology of the...
View ArticleHow The Energy-Guzzling Rock Tour Can Go Green
While on tour with his band Guster, Adam Gardner noticed that a lot of energy was being consumed, particularly in getting bands and fans together for a show.
View ArticleNext: Bleached
You could hear it in their first singles in 2011: Sisters Jessica and Jennifer Clavin and their band Bleached are onto something. Now comes their debut full-length, Ride Your Heart, and it fills in the...
View ArticleThe Milk Carton Kids, Making The Most Of Two Voices
When Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan ditched their solo careers to form The Milk Carton Kids, they discovered that they had a lot to teach each other. They also had a plan: to give their music away in...
View ArticleThao And The Get Down Stay Down: New Home, New Album
Thao Nguyen has been busy since her last album, Know Better Learn Faster, came out in 2009. The band moved to San Francisco while Nguyen explored recording with other artists, even making an album with...
View ArticleSons Of Fathers: Texas Rockers, Inspired By Their Dads
David Beck and Paul Cauthen were both playing music around San Marcos, Texas, when they recognized that it might be a good move to combine their talents and became Sons of Fathers. Actually, they...
View ArticleDawes: Songs And 'Stories' From Laurel Canyon
Dawes' Taylor Goldsmith writes heartfelt first-person songs, somewhat in the style of Laurel Canyon predecessors like Jackson Browne.
View ArticleNext: The Saint Johns
A little reinvention never hurt anyone. Nashville singers Jordan Meredith and Louis Johnson met in St. Augustine, Fla., and quickly discovered how well their voices blended together, so they moved to...
View ArticlePickwick On World Cafe
The first incarnation of the Seattle band Pickwick revolved around Galen Disston's strummy acoustic songs. Disston eventually found himself bored with his own music until a not-so-subtle shift took...
View ArticleLow On World Cafe
It's hard to find another band that's stayed as true to its vision as Low. Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker have been making Low records for 20 years now, and just released their 10th full-length album,...
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