Articles by Clay Burton

Hi Owls & Lions! We’re so excited to be chatting with you! Can you tell us how the band name Owls & Lions came to be?  Well, it’s a pretty profound story (not really lol) It […]

Criticizing country music can be a little hard, I’m not gonna lie. There’s so much of it and sometimes it’s hard to see how one trend got to another. In some ways, the current country […]

In an era dominated by streaming and home releases, many musical acts have found massive success aspiring to be based out of as homemade a studio as possible. Noteworthy artists with albums made literally out […]

What is something new that you’re trying to do right now in your career?   Something new I’m trying to do right now is breakthrough into the Electronic/pop music scene as a producer, I am originally from a […]

Hi Gretchen! Great to have you here today!  Aloha! Thanks for having me!! What do you see as the most important part of your journey as an artist? The most important part of my journey has […]

There’s a rusticity to the tone of the guitar strings in Jarret Forrester’s “Tonight” that I’m entirely hesitant to deem old school for one big reason; the melody they create is forward-thinking and progressively stylized. […]

What was a childhood dream of yours?  My dream was to play music with my friends. I always got the most pleasure out of being with the family, and playing music with my friends. I […]

There’s truly no limit to what a melody can convey in the bluegrass genre, given the style’s multifaceted structure of song and complex storytelling frequently employed by its best players, and we’re reminded as much […]

In his latest release, the collaborative Barry Abernathy & Friends, bluegrass icon Barry Abernathy invites some of the best players in his genre to the studio for an exhibition as much about self-exposure as it is […]

When singer/songwriters adapt with their material over time, they tend to become an embodiment of their original narrative – and vice versa. This is certainly true of the one and only Linda Imperial, whose new […]

What are you doing to make sure you make the best of this year in music?  I’m taking my time to enjoy the music making process. I think we, the artists and industry, put so […]

Hi Muszette! Thanks for being here! How do you balance artist life and normal life?  I don’t know that I do haha. Music pretty much is my life, I’m always talking about it or working […]

There’s plenty of arguments debating when Rock allegedly “died”. Some try to suggest it was the 60s, and some even the mid to late ’70s in the midst of the rise of disco. Judging from […]