A chronicle of the Upstate South Carolina music community and beyond
By DAN ARMONAITIS As I started the new year, I couldn’t help but take inventory of what has happened with TheMusicAdvocate.com in the short period since the site launched on Oct. 23, 2019. While having a morning cup of coffee, I looked back at the statistics for the site and Read More
Jim Lauderdale shared the stage with Donna the Buffalo on Sunday, Nov. 3 at The Spinning Jenny in Greer for an evening of Americana and roots music bliss. At one point during the show, the Nashville-based Lauderdale, who spent his teenage years living in Due West, noted the intensity of Read More
By DAN ARMONAITIS A couple of weeks ago, Americana music stalwart Jim Lauderdale was aboard an airplane, enduring a long, 15-hour flight from Sydney, Australia, to Los Angeles, where he’d eventually transfer to another plane headed to his current home of Nashville. “There was a fellow sitting a couple of Read More