Willie Schoellkopf is one of Western New York’s most beloved musicians, going back to his days with the Argyle Street Band and Blue Ox through more recent times with the…
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By ALYSSA BUMP Intern Linda Gail Lewis doesn’t just share her older brother, Jerry Lee’s, last name, she also shares his profession. Jerry Lee and Linda are both known for…
By JESSICA MEDITZ The last thing Ben Westlund and his cousin, Harmony Griffin, probably expected when they were asking Santa Claus for their first instruments as kids was that they…
By Elmer Ploetz Editor The Skiffle Minstrels have a gift for everybody who’s been housebound for the past 11 months, guaranteed to make you get up and dance around the…
By Elmer Ploetz Editor When you listen to a Gurf Morlix record, sometimes the first response is to ask, “Gurf, are you OK?” That’s because Morlix, the Austin music legend…
By Elmer Ploetz Jimmy Calire will be playing with an all-star cast led by Doug Yeomans when he returns to Buffalo on March 8 for Szelestfest 6, the annual event…
By COURTNEY S. LENNON (Courtney S. Lennon is a Buffalo-based writer whose specialty is Texas singer-songwriters. So when Wayne “The Train” Hancock came to town, we asked her to write…
By ELMER PLOETZ A lot of water has gone under the bridge since Peter Haskell was a Raven. But he was one of the first to play with Stan Szelest…
With this, the second of my monthly installments writing up something about folks on the local scene, I’m happy to present this profile of noted songwriter, 2015 SAM Foundation songwriter…
Congratulations to Bill Smith, the winner of this year’s Jim Lauderdale Songwriter of the Year. This award was named after Jim Lauderdale at our inaugural awards presentation in 2015. Jim…