We’ve reached the end of another long work week and the beginning of a new month. Summer rolls on, the temperatures continue to soar, and the new Americana and country albums keep stacking up. This ...

Daniel Genis, son of Soviet emigre writer Alexander Genis, served 10 years for armed robbery. The crimes fueled his heroin addiction. He shares stories from life in prison. John Powers reviews ...

Funny how Norman and Nancy Blake don't sound nearly as anachronistic today as they did 30 years ago when they first began collaborating. Thanks to the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and its still ...

Because on the evidence of a Friday night in Edinburgh whatever Teenage Fanclub singer Norman Blake, Love & Money’s James Grant and Bernard Butler, once of Suede, may bring to the table, a sense of ...

Click to open image viewer. Blake (b. 1938) ranks as one of the major bluegrass guitarists of the 1970s. Proficient with a variety of instruments, he played as a sideman to June Carter, Bob Dylan, and ...