BR549 GOT ITS start 11 years ago in the then-seedy neighborhood around Ryman Auditorium. Since then, however, the area has transformed itself into the Nashville equivalent of Georgetown, a change ...
Chuck Mead makes a virtue out of relaxation on his new full-length Journeyman's Wager, but the narratives have a knockabout air, and the former BR549 leader sounds like he's learned to roll with a few ...
When Chuck Mead started his job as expert rock 'n' roll technician and all-purpose rockabilly-lick adviser to a Broadway musical — even one about a celebrated event in the annals of Sun Records, and ...
If BR549 were like most country bands, it would have busted up a long time ago. It would have splintered under the pressure of touring schedules that kept the roots-savvy ensemble on the road for as ...
In the alt-country sphere, BR549 has long been a standard-bearer for a kind of imaginary Nashville that never forgot the lessons imparted by the hardcore honky-tonk values of Bakersfield, and stood by ...
If BR549 were like most country bands, it would have busted up a long time ago. It would have splintered under the pressure of touring schedules that kept the roots-savvy ensemble on the road for as ...
A few weeks ago in a Spot interview, singer-songwriter Wayne Hancock called the word "almost racist." Chuck Mead knows where Hancock's coming from. But he figures the word that gets his fellow ...