Like a meandering tributary of a muddy, tumultuous river, Piedmont blues flowed through the east coast in the 1930s and ’40s on a syncopated current, whipping the waters into foamy, ragtime rapids. Artists including Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Big […]
Billy Walker was killed eight years ago today–May 21, 2006–when he lost control of his van and slid off I-65 near Fort Deposit, Ala. The one-car crash also killed Walker’s wife Bettie, bassist Charles Lilly Jr., and guitar player Daniel […]
Milwaukee-born singer Jackie Allen brings to mind a bramble bush in autumn on her new album My Favorite Color. You hear a delicate balance of songs imbued with painful confession, as if her voice carries the slight tinge of spiritual […]
CHATHAM COUNTY LINE Tightrope (Yep Roc) Entering their second decade as an ensemble, Chatham County Line bring a deep reverence for traditional American roots music and timeless bluegrass instrumentation to insightful, poetic original songs that are powerfully contemporary yet rich […]
Abigail Washburn grew up a suburban girl obsessed with China and it was that winding, silk road the ultimately led her to the very American world of folk and bluegrass music. How’s that for a road less traveled? It starts […]
There’s a saying in the music industry that it takes your whole life to write your debut album, and then you get a few months to write the next one. If the first album is successful in any way, the […]
I’m standing on the corner of St. Phillip and N. Robertson in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans. It’s only noon but already the sun beats down and the air is thick with humidity. A bright red Cadillac pulls to the […]
Colin O’Brien is an anomaly. Colin O’Brien is a folk singing, guitar playing, fiddling banjo picker who is making a living doing what he loves, in Nashville. Remember the old joke; Son:”Mom I want to be a banjo picker when […]
Americana Cavalcade is the most recent throb from the beating heart of country music in the heart of our country – Perth. (Line up and ticket info below) So why has the recent flowering of power pop country in the fare […]
