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1 month ago | 
americansongwriter.com | Tina Benitez-Eves
"And I still always think about Allen [Ginsberg] when I'm here," said Patti Smith before reading the late Beat poet's "Howl."
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1 month ago | 
americansongwriter.com | Tina Benitez-Eves
"Many of the things that Buddhism represents—empathy, interdependence, care for others—is the polar opposite of what's being sent out now."
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
americansongwriter.com | Tina Benitez-Eves
Bodie's singl e"whisper and the wind' is "a reminder to myself and a reminder to you that God doesn't always have to look one certain way."
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
americansongwriter.com | Tina Benitez-Eves
"I had to fight tooth and nail to own it," said Gashi of his sixth album. "I'm relieved to finally birth this thing."
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
americansongwriter.com | Tina Benitez-Eves
By the time the Wild Feathers started recording their first album in three years, the band had a rough draft of 30 songs. Then, the band—Joel King, Ricky Young, Ben Dumas, Brett Moore, and Taylor Burns—uprooted themselves from Nashville to Los Angeles and under the careful direction of Shooter Jennings, who helped flesh out and produce their fifth album Sirens. At Jennings’ Dave’s Room studio, the band wanted to work around a blank palette and eventually pruned the songs down to 10.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
americansongwriter.com | Tina Benitez-Eves
When Wes Hamil of the Memphis Royal Brothers presented Kendall Jane Meade with a new song idea she wasn’t “feeling particularly collaborative.” At the time, Meade was still coping with the breakdown of her marriage and where she stood, and Hamil’s song, “I’d Like to Know Myself,” captured the essence of her life, post-divorce, as she became reacquainted with herself.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
americansongwriter.com | Tina Benitez-Eves
Country music artist Garth Brooks has responded to the sexual assault allegations in a lawsuit filed against him in California Superior Court on Thursday, October 3. Brooks, who is being accused of sexual assault and rape by an unnamed woman, has denied all allegations. “I have been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future would be if I did not write a check for many millions of dollars,” said Brooks in a statement.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
americansongwriter.com | Tina Benitez-Eves
During his term as the 39th president (197701982), JImmy Carter often had a revolving door of rock stars and country outlaws coming in and out of the White House, from Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers, Waylon Jennings, Bob Dylan, and more. Right in the pinnacle of the outlaw country movement and Southern rock. At the time, Carter faced criticism for his musician friends.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
americansongwriter.com | Tina Benitez-Eves
Before revealing his retirement in 2021, Kris Kristofferson played his final full concert on the Outlaw Country Cruise, aboard the Norwegian Pearl cruise ship on January 20, 2020.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
americansongwriter.com | Tina Benitez-Eves
After Matt Johnson released “We Can’t Stop What’s Coming” in 2017, the first song with The The in 16 years, it shifted his dynamic. Having filled the years since scoring soundtracks, which was documented in the 2017 film The Inertia Variations, Johanna St. Michaels’ movie inspired by British poet John Tottenham’s 2005 book of the same name. In the film, Johnson reveals the self-doubt, disenchantment, and grief that kept him from writing.
