Her last album, 10 Song Demo, came out six years ago, and her live appearances since then have been few and far between. But for her published short-story collection and kids’ book, Rosanne Cash has largely been out of the […]
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The Reeltime Travelers are transporting a timeless old-time sound and story to 21st-century audiences of all generations. “I like that our music appeals across all walks of life,” says banjo player Roy Andrade. “It’s a joy to feel comfortable playing […]
For a guy who has been making music for more than a decade, this seems like an odd time for Rhett Miller to be putting together his first backing band. Miller is best known as the frontman of the Old […]
Roger Wallace has the kind of smoke-filled voice that comes rumbling out of the crawl space between love and loss. You hear it from the opening breath of The Lowdown, the title track to his third album. “First of all,” […]
The steep ridges and narrow valleys of the Cumberland Plateau separate the coal country of eastern Kentucky from the rolling hills of the Appalachians to the south. Strip mining has leveled many of the ridges and washed rock and gravel […]
Let’s face it: Country music today is made by, for, and about white people. This is at least as true of alt as traditional country, as true of Austin as Nashville, as true of bluegrass as Top-40. You could name […]
Spigot’s two primary wheels — vocalist, songwriter, and group firestarter Nann Alleman, and harp player/serial good-guy David Lipkind — are sitting in a booth at Portland’s Laurelthirst pub, sucking down a series of Olympia stubbies. The pair stare intently at […]
Dave Carter, whose work with Tracy Grammer positioned the duo among the rising stars of contemporary folk/Americana, died of a heart attack on July 19 in Hadley, Massachusetts. He was 49. Born in Oxnard, California, and raised in rural Texas […]
Richie Unterberger has uncorked a formidable task, for “folk-rock” is a problematic category. Many have difficulty accepting it as an idiom or movement in and of itself. When the term is adopted, it tends to have a catholic reach, gathering […]
In many ways, the sights and sounds of the 36th annual Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival transpired as if the musical paradigm shift of Newport 1965 never happened. Fans and performers alike have always stood by the strict stylistic purity of […]
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