Deborah Kennedy
Whatzup Features Writer
Articles
Livin’ a Country Song
The details of Travis Tritt’s love life read like something straight out of your favorite country song. First, and almost predictably, he marries his high school sweetheart. While he works […]
A Musical Convergence
It only lasts two days, but Sweetwater’s GearFest is the kind of event people talk about for weeks, months, even years after the last tent comes down and guitar is […]
A Lady Walks Into a Bar
The way Kathleen Madigan’s stand-up career started sounds like a joke – “One young woman from Missouri walks into a bar …” – but for the now 50-year-old comedian, it […]
A 3-Voice Powerhouse
What began as a request from a friend and a mutual admiration society is now a bona fide supergroup. Made up of three of the area’s most sought after singer-songwriters, […]
The Song is Played Played the Same
Maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who can recall a certain fateful night in January 1970 when Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones wrote a […]
The Monsters of Funk
These days it seems everyone and his undead brother is eager to talk about the upcoming zombie apocalypse – the benefits of canned versus fresh food, where to store one’s […]
His Own Kind of Country
Many know Rusted Root for their trippy joyful mid-90s anthem “Send Me on My Way” off their Platinum-selling When I Woke. What just might come as a surprise is that […]
An Emerald Isle Christmas
Before Mairead Carlin was a member of Celtic Woman, she was one of the group’s biggest fans. The young singer from Derry in northern Ireland admired the all-female ensemble’s honest […]
Learning as he Goes
How’s this for a challenge? We dare you – double, triple, and quadruple dog – to open up the “about” section of singer-songwriter Alexander Wren’s website page and try not […]