Hazel Dickens – Country Universe

100 Greatest Women, #85: Hazel Dickens

April 6, 2018 Kevin John Coyne 1

A coal miner’s daughter and sister, Hazel Dickens used her voice who cry out for justice for her brothers in the mine.

NPR “Turning the Tables” List: A Conversation, Part Five: NPR MIA (Jonathan’s Picks)

August 7, 2017 Jonathan Keefe 13

Five artists – okay, technically six – that Jonathan Keefe believes were MIA from the NPR list.

Sunday Selections: February 28, 2016

February 28, 2016 Jonathan Keefe 1

When it comes to this week’s Sunday Selections post, we’re just like Tracy Lawrence: Runnin’ behind.

Album Review: Kathy Mattea, <i>Calling Me Home</i>

September 20, 2012 Ben Foster 5

Kathy Mattea
Calling Me Home

On her exquisite new album Calling Me Home, Kathy Mattea shows herself to be an artist who fully understands music as a medium of art and self-expression. Following down a path similar to that of her stellar Grammy-nominated 2008 effort Coal, but expanding upon it by dealing with a wider range of topics, Calling Me Home finds Mattea turning to her own roots for inspiration, and producing what just might be the finest album of her illustrious career.