Author: Laura Ellen Brandjord

Artists across genres release timely songs, whether they intended to or not The global COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on everyone, including artists. With music “Quaran-tunes”

This past year has been a busy one for alternative country artist David Allen. The musician bought his parent’s house in Hatton, ND, got married, “Interview: David Allen talks Woody Guthrie, impulse buying instruments and how growing up in a small town influences his music”

A previous version of this article erroneously named the Minneapolis producer as Ed Ackerman instead of Ed Ackerson. At a corner table of the Liberty Restaurant that a helpful waitress had assured me would be the most insulated from the decibels “Interview: Mostly Trees talk Huey Lewis, changing their name and Ed Ackerson”

It was on drives from North Minneapolis to a family cabin that musician Luke LeBlanc formed some of his first memories with music. Today, LeBlanc “Interview: Luke LeBlanc talks John Prine cassettes, new music and a guitar lesson from Nitty Gritty Dirt Band”

It was a visitor playing AC/DC’s “Back in Black” during a guitar clinic in his humanities class that made Minnesota singer/songwriter Levi Henry fall in “Interview: Levi Henry talks The Band, new music and his dog Maggie”

It was watching the Guns n’ Roses episode of “Behind the Music” that inspired a 13-year-old Jon Worthy to pick up a guitar, and the “Interview: Jon Worthy talks moving to Nashville, constant touring and exploring genres”