By Elmer Ploetz JAM Editor When people think about traditional music in America, they usually think of Appalachian mountain ballads or country blues from the south. But through the years…
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By Elmer Ploetz Editor For Greg Hennessey, his Rockabilly Greg podcast is a labor of love … specifically a love of Western New York music. Since March, Hennessey has done…
By Buck Quigley When Gram Parsons decided to outfit the Flying Burrito Brothers in stage clothes designed by Nudie Cohn, he was following what had become a country music tradition….
By Lucy Bell “Bottom line: I’m a performer first, and for me nothing can replace an audience,” says Geno McManus. Well, types. Like so many things during the pandemic, the…
By Elmer Ploetz JAM editor What would happen if you were to take two of the biggest party days in Buffalo — Mardi Gras and Dyngus Day — and combine…
By ANNA GAGLIANO Contributing writer As a very famous woman once said in perhaps an even more famous song: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. And fun they shall have. On…
Jerry Hall, aka Neil Young for the Last Waltz purposes, put together a great video that shares a bit of the behind the scenes imagery from last month’s event. Here…
Hi. It’s June, so we decided to dedicate a large part of this issue to celebrating fathers and music. So enjoy as you read pieces from Buck Quigley, Courtney Lennon,…
Courtney S. Lennon is a writer from Western New York whose oral history of legendary songwriter Billy Joe Shaver is due out early next year on Texas A&M University Press….
It will be Father’s Day later this month, so we’ve decided to focus on dads and music this month. Like all relationships, father-son relationships can be complicated. That’s as true…