As a songwriting tandem, two acoustic veterans ace new music
The blues guitarist Jon Shain is contemplating the ways in which the seven songs he wrote with the old-time banjo player Joe Newberry altered his musical approach. Those tunes—written for their collaborative debut as a duo, the new Crow the Dawn—reminded him to be open to new experiences, Shain says, and to surrender his ego in collaborative work.…
As a songwriting tandem, two acoustic veterans ace new music
The blues guitarist Jon Shain is contemplating the ways in which the seven songs he wrote with the old-time banjo player Joe Newberry altered his musical approach. Those tunes—written for their collaborative debut as a duo, the new Crow the Dawn—reminded him to be open to new experiences, Shain says, and to surrender his ego in collaborative work.…