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As of today, String Theory Media has a new address and phone number. The new space is in a converted garage studio attached to our new home, and while it looks like chaotic hell now, the computers are running and the ambience isn't far off. The new 411 is in the margin on the left. Please be aware you can always try me on my cell at 615.438.8488. Thanks. More real news coming soon.
The story of Philippe Quint this past week was a study in how badly things can go wrong despite obsessive care and very high stakes. Quint is a concert violinist who briefly lost his $4 million Stradavarius when a cab driver, unaware that he was not finished unloading, drove away from Quint's New York apartment. Daniel Wakin writes in today's Times about why this happens and how musicians dread it. Most of these stories have a happy ending. Quint gave a solo concert for the cab drivers at their dispatch center as a thank you for returning the violin.
I learned upon arriving at the office yesterday that Eddy Arnold had died, one week shy of his 90th birthday. By day's end we'd assembled this story for All Things Considered about the most successful charting artist in country music history. He had an amazing life capped off by a 66-year marriage to Sally. I never heard anything but glowing words about both of them. Eddy will be missed.
Tennessee mandolin starlet Sierra Hull held a nice album release party at ASCAP in Nashville yesterday afternoon. Her debut on Rounder Records, entitled Secrets is a validation of all the hopes her fans have had for her since she emerged as a prodigious, contest-winning musician in her very early teens. Many of those fans are among the elite in bluegrass, including Alison Krauss. We got to produce this video bio of Sierra that shows her trying to balance the life of a normal 16-year-old high school junior with her new career as an in-demand touring and recording artist. She's a super person too, and we wish her the best of luck.
