Gerrard's albums with Hazel Dickens in the ’60s and ’70s paved the way for women in the genre Alice Gerrard, born in Seattle, raised in California and now settled in North Carolina, is an American banjoist, guitar player and singer with a career that ...
18 Jul 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
With the release of her debut album, “It’s My Way!,” in 1964, Buffy Sainte-Marie was named Billboard Magazine’s best new artist. It was the same year the United States was “invaded” by the Beatles and was in the midst of the Vietnam War. Soon after, with ...
10 Jul 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
Spencer Tweedy is making music with his father – Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy – and paying tribute to his mother, who is fighting cancer Last year, at 18 years of age, Spencer Tweedy learned his mother had cancer. That sent him and the Tweedy family reeling. He d ...
15 Mar 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
Ritchie Young was born and raised in a Republican family in Bend. He played a little music is school, but he will tell you he was “horrible.” Though he plays the guitar and sings lead vocals for his band, Loch Lomond, Young admits he identifies more as a ...
19 Jan 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
Jennifer Batten didn’t become one of rock’s most accomplished professional guitar players with a waifish, coy girlie image. She got there by living, breathing and being music — by being a badass woman in an industry dominated by men. She did three world t ...
15 Jul 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
Portland musician Chaz Mortimer blends the worlds of tradition and technology The popular adage says it takes a village to raise a child. Local percussionist, educator and producer Chaz Mortimer will tell you it also takes a village to raise a musician. M ...
18 Jun 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
Canadian country star and self-proclaimed history buff Corb Lund talks music, health care and gun control By Sue Zalokar, Staff Writer Corb Lund hails from a long line of cowboys. He grew up in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada, went ...
16 May 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
The Portland singer, songwriter uses crowdsourcing to put a new album on the market, with proceeds to help support local organizations By Sue Zalokar, Staff Writer Susannah Weaver. Why does that name sound familiar? Weaver, otherwise known as “Little Sue” ...
6 May 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
A conversation with Portland’s sultriest chanteuse Liv Warfield By Sue Zalokar, Contributing Writer Sultry, smoky, soulful and smooth – sentiments that flow effortlessly between the tone and timber of Liv Warfield ’s amazing voice. She is a Portland origi ...
25 Apr 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar