Articles by Stuart Henderson

Tedeschi Trucks Band

Let Me Get By

PUBLISHED Jan 27, 2016

It's tough for great live bands to use the studio to their advantage. The Grateful Dead pretty much never figured it out, and the Allman Br...

Tedeschi Trucks Band Connect 'Let Me Get By' and David Bowie's 'Blackstar'

PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2016

Fronted by two of the most respected musicians in the industry — guitar hero Derek Trucks (also of the Allman Brothers Band) and sublime vo...

Dave Cobb: Metamodern Soundman Behind Stapleton, Ortega, Isbell and more

2015 in Lists

PUBLISHED Jan 7, 2016

Producer Dave Cobb was the common thread running through some of the best country records of 2015 (and several of the year before too). A m...

Drive-By Truckers

It's Great to Be Alive!

PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2015

This isn't the first live record Drive-By Truckers have released, but it is the first one that, when listened to in its sprawling, three-an...

Carrie Underwood

Storyteller

PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2015

One thing seems sure about Carrie Underwood: She doesn't do anything halfway. The 32-year-old's ascent to the height of the pop music pyram...

Josh Ritter

Sermon on the Rocks

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2015

"Jesus hates your high school dances," jokes the ever-ebullient Josh Ritter on "Getting Ready To Get Down," a standout track on his eighth...

Lucinda Williams

Fort York, Toronto ON, September 19

PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2015

Somewhere around 3 p.m. the sky opened up over the little snatch of grass down at Toronto's Fort York and it looked like the rest of the da...

Cake

Fort York, Toronto ON, September 19

PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2015

Like most people, I haven't paid any attention to Cake since the early 2000s. But since for a while there in the mid-to-late 1990s they wer...