The door swings open as we pass the café. The A/C is turned up all the way, and we are embraced by a coolly seductive rush of air. We catch an irresistible cosmopolitan groove from the jukebox and can no […]
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It rained all afternoon in Asheville last Friday, just as it’s rained almost every afternoon all summer. Global warming, it seems, is turning our little mountain town into a subtropical valley in the Smokies. As the minutes crept toward 8 […]
It’s been a busy summer, and now it’s time to feature some of the best roots photos of the past couple of weeks by our crack contributors: Peter Dervin, Cynthia Elliott, Kirk Stauffer, Todd Gunsher, and Boom Baker. Also in […]
Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals played with the L.A. Philharmonic for the first time ever at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night, and it was nothing short of breathtaking. It was the perfect Summer evening under a full moon, and […]
Frazey Ford sees her two solo albums after departing from the Be Good Tanyas as very different works. The singer-songwriter, who had been one-third of the Vancouver, BC-based folk, country, and blues group, released her first solo album, Obadiah, in 2010 […]
Word behind the stage after Steeleye Span had finished their performance at Fairport’s Cropredy Convention was that the venerable British folk-rockers had taken themselves up a notch. They had – and a lot of it was down to Jessie May Smart, who […]
Like many, I’ve been contemplating the tragic chaos of my hometown of Milwaukee (I drive through Sherman Park at least twice a week) and the gun violence that triggered it, and all the other often-senseless gun killings we have endured, like […]
For last week’s column, I featured a relatively new development in the crowdfunding world, its use by already established artists as a chance to offer bonus merchandise around the pre-order of an album. So this week, I want to counterbalance […]
Jon Cleary was the Guest of Honor with his Absolute Monster Gentlemen (consisting of New Orleans natives Derwin “Big D” Perkins on guitar, Cornell C. Williams on bass and A.J. Hall on drums) at this year’s 40th Annual Telluride Jazz […]
“Anybody here like Loretta Lynn?” Asks Oberst. “You’re goddamn right you like Loretta Lynn!” At this Conor Oberst’s wife Corina Figueroa Escamilla jumps in to sing “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad” recorded by Tammy Wynette and later by Loretta […]
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