Before setting off for some festivals, workshops, a profile, and some work time on the farm, I want to share some new music coming your way in the next few weeks. I have been listening to these new releases a […]
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It’s a big news week in the No Depression world! The Kinks are reuniting, Irma Thomas was named the honoree for the Americana Music Association’s 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance, and Trio are receiving a star on Hollywood Walk […]
/banjo-itis/ adjective That ringing in the ears that comes from prolonged exposure to the high pitched plunking of strings stretched over catskin. There is no known cure. MerleFest is a joyous annual celebration of old-time high and […]
Chris Smither’s new double album is titled Call Me Lucky, and he surely sounds like a man with no complaints. “Call me lucky” are the first words he sings on the album’s first song “The Blame’s on Me,” and “on […]
Features Bill Kirchen – Tale of the Tele Carlene Carter – Back in the fold David Bromberg – Picking and choosing Dolly Varden – Love will keep us together James Brown – I got you Joe Ely – Still running […]
Guildhall in Winchester was built at the height of the Victorian obsession with Gothic architecture, a feature of which is to draw the eye upwards. That made for an ideal venue for Scott Matthews, whose music, and particularly whose voice, […]
There was another enchanting evening at The Hollywood Bowl on Sunday night, when Big Thief, Gillian Welch, and Father John Misty took over the venerable Los Angeles landmark to weave musical spells under the moon and stars. To say it was utterly gorgeous in […]
Summer Sunday Flashback Pt. Trey Hot Club of Cowtown’s lead torch Elana James has also rolled out two sets of originals and covers across various zones, always on the self-express—the first appeared in 2007, when I wrote this for the […]
Patti Smith is a singer-songwriter, performer, poet, and philosopher. Did you know she is also a photographer? Since March of this year, Smith has been posting photographs, many taken by herself, along with others meaningful to her and upon which […]
Dreamland’s cloud in Blu, 23-plus stories up. This brief photo essay interprets the experience of hearing Dreamland, an imaginative and courageous ensemble which has worked hard in recent years to make much of the challenging Thelonious Monk repertoire alive […]
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