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2012 Stories by Rick Mason

• An Acoustic Café Evening: Carrie Rodriguez, Kelly Joe Phelps, Pieta Brown

  published February 1, 2012

  Carrie Rodriguez (pictured), a fiddle ace, singer, and songsmith from Austin, Texas, hosts this third annual road version of the radio... More >>

• Charlie Parr

  published January 25, 2012

  This show will celebrate the release of Charlie Parr's latest, Keep Your Hands on the Plow, a striking collection of mostly traditional... More >>

• Pert Near Sandstone

  published January 25, 2012

  Strings'll be the thing at this annual two-day assembly of pickers and fiddlers intent on chasing the bleak midwinter with fiery forays into... More >>

• J.D. Souther

  published January 25, 2012

  Among the key architects of the country-rock sound that came out of Southern California in the early '70s, John David Souther wrote or co-wrote a... More >>

• JJ Grey & Mofro

  published January 18, 2012

  A masterful storyteller in the grand southern tradition, JJ Grey gets his raw material from the piney woods and blackwater swamps of rural north... More >>

• David Bromberg Quartet

  published January 18, 2012

  A graduate of the '60s Greenwich Village folk scene, David Bromberg mastered guitar and a slew of other stringed instruments, becoming a highly... More >>

• Meshell Ndegeocello

  published January 18, 2012

  A metaphoric shift to relatively serene high barometric pressure profoundly affects Weather (Naïve), Meshell Ndegeocello's latest,... More >>

• Keb Mo

  published January 18, 2012

  Although often considered a blues revivalist, Keb Mo (a.k.a. L.A.-bred Kevin Moore) long has had wider interests, which fully emerge on The... More >>

• Martha Reeves & the Vandellas

  published January 11, 2012

  It may be a little cold for dancing in the streets, but the heat wave has certainly helped out and, after all, all you need is sweet music... More >>

• April Verch Band

  published January 11, 2012

  Ontario's April Verch has won a slew of fiddle awards in Canada, mostly showing off her agility as a disciple of the Ottawa Valley school and its... More >>

• Willie Murphy

  published January 11, 2012

  As inextricably tied to the Twin Cities scene as any musician in modern times, Willie Murphy has just about done and seen it all in a career that... More >>

• Charlie Parr

  published January 11, 2012

  This show will celebrate the release of Charlie Parr's latest, Keep Your Hands on the Plow, a striking collection of mostly traditional... More >>

• Peter Asher

  published January 11, 2012

  During the '60s British Invasion, Peter Asher was half of Peter & Gordon, a pop-folk duo with a string of hits led by the chart-topping "World... More >>

• Malamanya

  published January 4, 2012

  A double dose of Latin heat should be the perfect antidote for a Minnesota January night. The six members of locally based Malamanya should know.... More >>

• Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven

  published January 4, 2012

  Shortly after the new year rolls over, Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker (pictured) blow into town midway through what has become their annual... More >>