Oct. 11th- Steve Earle will be touring North America in October, followed by a series of dates in Europe in November and December. Check the tour dates page for complete tour iternary. Earle's performance at last summer's High Sierra Music Festival is now available for purchase as a digital download via Disclogic.com. Steve Earle is on the just released Tell Us The Truth Tour CD. The CD features several live recordings of Steve from last year's Tell Us The Truth Tour. The CD also features Jill Sobule, The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello), Mike Mills, Boots Riley. A DVD of the tour will be released early next year.

Sept. 26th - The Nashville Tennessean's Peter Cooper has a couple of articles on the recent Americana Music Association's conference and Awards show. Another article on the conference form the Daytona Beach News.

Oct 6th - Jay Farrar's popular rock band persona, Son Volt, is heading back into the studio to record their fourth full-length studio album—the first new release since 1998's Wide Swing Tremolo (Warner Bros.). This time around, though, fans will be seeing (and hearing) a different collection of side musicians performing with Farrar. With fifteen Son Volt songs written, studio time booked and engineer John Agnello on board, Farrar now plans to commence recording in St. Louis on October 12. Currently set to collaborate with Farrar on these sessions are Brad Rice (guitar--Tift Merritt, Ryan Adams), Andrew Duplantis (bass—Jon Dee Graham, Meat Puppets, Bob Mould), Eric Heywood (pedal steel—Son Volt, Calexico) and Dave Bryson (drums—Canyon). Fans will have access to these sessions through web cameras installed in the studio beginning October 12, providing a very rare glimpse into Farrar's recording process as it actually unfolds. Access to these cameras (and other behind-the-scenes material) will be available at www.jayfarrar.net/webcam .

Sept 24th - Robbie Robertson has been working on a new The Band box set. It's scheduled for a May 2005 release date. Robertson says the five-CD set will include more than 100 songs, many of them previously unreleased, as well as a DVD.

Sept. 21 - The New Yorker has a nice story on Gillian Welch.

Aug 27th - Following the success of Loretta Lynn's latest album, Van Lear Rose, there are plans for her and producer Jack White of The White Stripes to make at least three more records. They also want to hit the road together in the Fall.

Aug 23rd - British singer/ songwriter Nick Lowe returns to the U.S. for a fall tour. All shows will be an acoustic duo, with longtime bandmember and new Yep Roc label-mate Geraint Watkins backing Nick up. Watkins, who has his own new release titled, Dial W for Watkins, will also open most shows.

Aug 3rd - Kasey Chambers is touring her native Australia through September, then she heads to the states in early November, starting in San Francisco. Her new CD, Wayward Angel, will be released Sept 14th in the US.

Aug. 2nd - Jam! has a short interview with Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy, who talks about making the music that makes him happy and the new CD A Ghost Is Born.

Aug. 2nd - George Grantham the drummer for veteran country- rock band Poco suffered a stroke on stage and collapsed one song into a performance at an outdoor concert last Thursday. The band, which was playing at the free CityBlock Party in downtown Springfield, Mass.when Grantham, 57, was stricken. Lead singer Rusty Young said Grantham was resting at Baystate Medical Center after emergency surgery to relieve fluid on his brain.

July 13th- Chart Attack has word on a Canadian Gram Parsons tribute show with Chris Hillman, Bernie Leadon, Herb Pedersen and Sid Griffin who is interviewed in the article.

July 12 - Rueters has a review of the Gram Parsons tribute concert in LA featuring Keith Richards, Lucinda Williams, Norah Jones, Steve Earle and more. Rolling Stone's concert review. Florida's Ledger also has a good article about the concert, including and interview with Gram's daughter Polly Parsons.

June 24th - Country singer Marty Stuart was charged yesterday (June 23) with driving under the influence of alcohol in Hendersonville, Tenn., police said.

June 16 - Undercover, an Australian E-zine, has an interview with Kasey Chambers, who has a new release called Wayward Angel. The CD is only available as an import for now, Amazon has it, but it's around $30.

June 14th - Pollstar, which is a music industry mag, has a short but insightful story on Robert Earl Keen, who talks about touring and how he picks set lists.

June 10th - Ray Charles, the Grammy-winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as "What'd I Say" and heartfelt ballads like "Georgia on My Mind," died Thursday, a spokesman said. He was 73.