CHRIS DONOHUE

After having heard stories about it for years, I finally got to play Neil Young’s Bridge School benefit with Tom Jones in late October.  The concert lineup was formidable – Neil & Pegi Young, Brian Wilson & Al Jardine, Pearl…

This was truly one for the books – The McCrary Sisters and The Fairfield Four with special guests Lucinda Williams, Amos Lee, Van Hunt, Buddy Miller, and LeeAnn Womack, live at Downtown Presbyterian Church last Saturday…

Thanks to the TBS editor who added a healthy portion of Gouda to this promo (at :51 – 1:11) for CeeLo Green’s new series “The Good Life”, and to my buddies at The License Lab for making the connection.

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SO happy for Danni Nicholls as she marks her first #1 single on the Roots Music Report airplay chart with “Hey There, Sunshine“!  In addition, “A Little Redemption” has ascended to #8 on RMR’s Folk Album…

I was on set in New York late last summer for the filming of “Big Movie Shorts”, a series of vignettes created for the EPIX HD network centered around a movie and pop-culture obsessed family.  

The series was conceived…

I first fell in love with the music of Stephen Sondheim at a Circle Players production of “Into The Woods” in the mid-nineties (I had also recently fallen in love with and in awe of the show’s pianist, Laura Donohue)…

Earlier this month, I packed the contrabass and a couple of audiobooks in a rental car and drove down to Austin to meet The Grahams for a few SXSW showcases.  Our favorite set of the day was one we had…

Shortly before taking the 2011 Newport Folkfest stage with Emmylou and the Red Dirt Boys to close out the festival, we were told that Pete Seeger was going to sit in at the end of our set.  Bryan Owings and…

En route to Folk Alliance next month, Ill first be making a detour up to Brooklyn to attend Pete Lanctot's CD release party at Littlefield. We produced Pete's Caledonia EP last September at my studio in East Nashville with…

Following on the heels of 2013s Retro Camp, heres a new set of Sixties-inspired tunes I wrote and recorded for my friends at The License Lab entitled Cheese And Crackers. A close listen will reveal moments where my…

Last years download sales of Jwaye Nwel, an utterly charming Christmas track by our sightless and (formerly homeless) friend Olence Calixte in Port Au Prince, raised enough money to put Calixte and his family in a rented home for a…