Music, Outdoors, Life
Alex Underwood is about as easy a guy to get into a groove with as laying down the needle on a James Brown record. I'd seen him in and around Saxapahaw, North Carolina at a couple different gigs, with with a mic, guitar, and his guitar case open and available for tips. His music certainly… Continue reading Boogixote Q&A: Alex Underwood
The most cold-hard-facts line of 2025 was born from the grocery store checkout line. “I don’t know if I’m getting better / If I’m getting worse / But I’m getting by” I mean, have truer words been spoken for these times? That honest-ass line is the chorus of “This Kind of Rain,” a sunshower country… Continue reading Blue Cactus: Bound to Make You a Believer
“I'm a duck on a pond, just here having a good time.” That’s how Durham, NC guitarist and songwriter Spencer Thomas Smith describes himself to me with a smile, as we share our morning coffees over Zoom, with a fresh inch of snow outside. The weather had interrupted our plans to meet in person, but… Continue reading Boogixote Q&A: Spencer Thomas Smith
"Don't mess with our homes/Leave our waters alone/Shove that pipe up your b-u-t-T" It's a note for West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, signed and sealed by North Carolina native Joe Troop, delivered as a solo screed from the frets of his banjo, from one Joe to another, on Troop's song "We Don't Want The MVP… Continue reading Boogixote Q&A: STOP MVP Compilation Album
Just to be near Willy Tea Taylor is to love him. He speaks with the warm embrace of a bed of coals in a fire. He resembles the warrior elf Gimli from Lord of the Rings, and laughs with the same rambunctious brawn. His songs are as intimate as a late night conversation with your… Continue reading Boogixote Q&A: Willy Tea Taylor
Virginia City, Nevada has always been a place of hardtack women. Found in the desert mountains just to the east of Reno it was the site of the first large deposit of silver ore the Comstock Lode and became one of the biggest silver boom towns of the era, a swelling zeitgeist of danger, excitement… Continue reading Q&A: Caitlin Jemma
I don't know if I've ever listened to Will Johnson in the bright of the day. His music seems to live in the softer light of the dawn and dusk, where things aren't so clear and the quiet helps you tune into the parts of your soul you ignore in the daylight. From fronting the… Continue reading Q&A: Will Johnson
In the Bible it is told that upon his birth, the baby Jesus, Son of God, was visited by three magi. These wise men had followed the North Star for 12 days all the way to the town of Bethlehem to pay their respects to the new king, bestowing upon him the gifts of gold,… Continue reading Q&A: Tri Magi
A black hole is a region of spacetime whose weight is so massive and dense that particles of matter cannot escape its gravitational pull, not even light particles. It grows in density as it absorbs passing particles, planets and celestial systems, all of it condensing into a single point known as singularity. Quantum mechanics and… Continue reading Q&A: King Dream
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