MerleFest. Just saying its name can cause goosebumps and bring forth a flood of memories. Not just me, but other folks I meet along my music travels have the same feelings when I ask them if they have ever been […]
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Performing in a major bluegrass band is a grueling business. In order to subsist as a bluegrass musician, a player is often on the road from Thursday through Sunday, frequently appearing at three different events placed hundreds or even thousands of miles […]
Anyone can rattle off the names of female artists who have made it big in just about any genre of music, but what about female producers? Women in the studio are still a relative rarity, and there aren’t many of […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally appeared in the Summer 2016/Homegrown edition of No Depression‘s quarterly journal, which is now sold out. Subscribe to No Depression today and never miss another issue. Rambling at midnight goes back many centuries and […]
April 21 must be some kind of musical or spiritual get-together, or perhaps the moon is in the seventh house, as there are some outstanding releases coming out that day, the day before Record Store Day. Here’s a look at some […]
Nell Robinson and Jim Nunally love the road, and they revel in the adventure of uncovering new corners of this old world that people call home. Over the course of 2016, they released four EPs—North, South, East and West—which they sold exclusively […]
As a lawyer, as a teacher, and perhaps most importantly, as a mother, I have a pretty good sense of when people are telling me the truth and when they’re being other than their authentic selves. Perhaps that is why […]
Nico was a compelling, grim and somewhat scary performer at Manhattan clubs in the late 1970s. I remember sitting on a wooden floor of a now-defunct club as the celebrated Andy Warhol protégé sat in the center of the room […]
Most weeks in this space, I feature two or three of the newest crowdfunding campaigns to hit the internet. But just critical to a well run crowdfunding campaign than its launch is its finish. Those final couple of weeks before […]
Northern Climbs: Grand Marais at testsite by Hills Snyder Two sweet people that arrive late want to know what they missed, so Grand Marais, as casually as picking up a water glass off a table, play a song they didn’t play, […]
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