Articles by Jason Schneider

Exclaim!'s 2013 in Lists:

5 Signs of the Nashville Renaissance

PUBLISHED Dec 30, 2013

Nashville will forever be the centre of the country music universe, but in recent years, it's become known for much more than the Grand Ole...

Craig Cardiff

Man of the People

PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2013

Independent, Ottawa-based singer-songwriter Craig Cardiff has spent the past 15 years building a grassroots following in Canada that recent...

Cowboy Junkies

Honouring An Icon

PUBLISHED Dec 9, 2013

Michael Timmins seems to be attracted to big projects lately. After wrapping up his band Cowboy Junkies' ambitious four-disc collection The...

Swamp Dogg

The Original Dogg-Father

PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2013

Although Jerry Williams Jr. cut his first R&B record at age 12, it wasn't until he created his alter ego, Swamp Dogg, in 1970 that he found...

Craig Cardiff Explains 'Love Is Louder (Than All This Noise)'

PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2013

With a catalogue now well into double digits and a national fan base that is surely the envy of his singer-songwriter peers, Ottawa's Craig...

Cowboy Junkies' Michael Timmins Talks the Lengthy Process Behind 'The Kennedy Suite'

PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2013

In 1997, Toronto roots rockers the Skydiggers recorded "The Truth About Us," written by fledgling songwriter Scott Garbe, who based it on t...

White Ash Falls

Over the Night

PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2013

On his second album as White Ash Falls, Andy Bishop makes great strides as a cosmic cowboy, delivering ten tracks of pure left coast bliss....

Fiftymen

Fiftymen

PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2013

Although Fiftymen have been hometown heroes in the Ottawa area for ages, on their self-titled fourth album the band finally seems ready to...