On most spring days in 1925, my grandfather rode his swayback mare from his family’s cabin along the Little River across the Alum Ridge to the Stony Point school, a one-room schoolhouse on the road to Copper Valley. Not far […]
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Ever since the 2012 film Searching For Sugar Man placed a spotlight on the strange life and career of the elusive folk singer Rodriguez, there seems to be renewed attention from music lovers when it comes to discovering musicians who may have […]
When Sarah Pierce began her journey in the music business, she didn’t intend to be a songwriter. The Nashville music establishment was grooming her for success as a performer – she was expected to sing and make hit songs. Her […]
There was another all too frequent feeling of sorrow this week as I read about the victim of a shooting at a movie theater in Lafayette Louisiana. Jillian Johnson, a 33 year old artist and designer who ran the Red Arrow Workshop with […]
By now, the story is familiar: angry folk music purists were incensed at Bob Dylan, whom they had begun to revere as an eccentric, but ingenious, songwriter. Like a Messianic figure, he had come out of nowhere to New York […]
We met our friend Brent Davis and his wife, Susan, for supper on Sunday afternoon in Columbus, OH, after a long drive from Pennsylvania. Irene spent a couple of hours helping to fold T-shirts as preparations for Musicians Against Childhood Cancer progressed, and […]
Folk music, in all of its forms, is about family – the universal family of artists and audience. It’s a worldwide family of restless human souls who find melodic expressions of love and redemption calling them toward their best selves. […]
Friday was another amazing night at The Funky Biscuit. You’ve got your bluegrass and Americana with the Packway Handle Band and your old-school blues with JP Soars and The Red Hots.The folks who do the bookings at this club really are bold in sticking […]
Songwriter Jonatha Brooke is a strong performer in every sense of the word. Carrying herself as the dancer she is, in possession of a nimble soprano that can go from a whisper to a roar, she is adept at owning […]
I woke up on the last day of the Green River Festival eager for more music – the previous day was so terrific that I needed more! Unfortunately it was a scorcher of a day and that caused me to not want […]
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