About the Show
Music City Roots
A weekly concert and live radio show presented from The Loveless Cafe Barn in Nashville, TN.
by Craig Havighurst
The show will open with a band I dearly love for their insight and innovation. Missy Raines & The New Hip isn’t like anything else out there, unless you reach for comparisons with what Bill Frisell and Christian McBride have been doing on the edges of jazz. I’ve written at length about Missy before – her incredible track record in bluegrass music and her explorations beyond it as a songwriter, composer and recruiter of young instrumental talent. It’ll be great to have her back.
I’m in the process of falling for our guest Edward David Anderson, and he’s making it really easy with rich and robust roots rock that folks are comparing to Tom Petty and Wilco. Los Lobos genius Steve Berlin produced this Bloomington, IN artist for Royal Potato Family. There’s much seductive writing and musicianship here, and Anderson performs one-man-band style with guitar and drum kit around him, which should be very interesting. Rounding out the bill will be the fresh voice and breezy sweep of Caroline Reese of Reading, PA. She built on her first two self-released solo albums by forming the rocking little combo The Drifting Fifth and hitting the road. Radio stations in the northeast are getting on board and so are we.
So this looks like another of our signature shows that catches you up on the latest sounds and doings of venerable veterans while exposing the work of excellent newcomers, including Tommy Malone, Rick Ickes and Trey Hensley. I feel comfortable and confident in saying that if you value lyrics, emotion, instrumental skill, dynamics, tradition and innovation, you’ll be happy listening with us.
