On a mild evening in February we arrived in Loomis, Nebraska at our favorite concert venue, Rehmsworld Concerts at The Balcony. To say that this was not your usual night at a venue is an understatement. Being a Sunday, we […]
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Gene Clark is finally getting his due. For decades, Roger McGuinn received most of the credit for the Byrds’ impact on rock and roll, tied in with psychedelic, country, and folk music. McGuinn was the unquestioned leader, and there’s no reason […]
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man includes a scene during which the nameless protagonist engages in a conversation with a homeless man who serves, fleetingly but portentously, as the novel’s clear-eyed prophet; the character who, removed from the repetitive struggles of quotidian […]
Most weeks in my Crowdfunding Campaigns of the Week column, I try to focus in on either up and coming or established artists in the very loose “roots” music definition, in keeping with me writing for a publication that has […]
It was a natural thing. The excited, jovial, unaware chatter from the bar had been slowly building all night as the Real Music Club crowd at the Errigle Inn had eased into a gig we’d been waiting for since way […]
Three cheers and more for Steve Berkowitz and Jeff Rosen, compilation producers, and Mark Wilder, mastering engineer, for their GRAMMY win this afternoon. Bob Dylan’s official Bootleg series has only gained in breadth, depth and content since its dazzing debut with […]
Oh, goodness. The 2017 Grammy Awards have arrived. For many in the No Depression audience, the Grammys have not mattered a ton for the past several… decades? But in an interesting turn of events, Americana and American roots music have […]
Here’s a podcast on the recent Americana Music Association UK Awards show in London earlier this month. Included in the podcast are songs by Lewis and Leigh, Sam Outlaw, Jim Lauderdale and Steepways. Please feel free to share your feedback in the comments […]
On the jukebox this week is a bit a blues, some protest music, and two records that sound like babbling brooks, shaking leaves, and everything that can be considered “pastoral.” As Wordsworth once said, “These fields were burthen’d when they […]
W.B. Walker lives in the small mountain community of Dingess, West Virginia, and he is also a freight train conductor. His podcasts are very popular and uniquely brilliant! And he knows how to use social networks to promote his shows. […]
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