This week we get a bold new album from Justin Hiltner & Jon Weisberger that shows us what open minds and collaboration can do for bluegrass, and you’ll also want to open your ears to new music from NewTown, Great […]
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“When American leadership boasts of exporting democracy,” a regal and majestic Jesse Jackson, wearing a three piece suit behind an ornate pulpit declared, “They do not talk of Jeffersonian democracy.” Any system that includes the enslavement of citizens with a […]
Porch Light Apothecary hail from Raleigh NC, and the music they make oozes with proof. The newest single to be released off the groups forthcoming album is entitled “I Shall Be Released”. The track rides upon a piano swing that […]
Warren Haynes is known to many as the former guitarist for The Allman Brothers Band and founder of the popular jam band Gov’t Mule. Haynes made a surprise appearance Sunday July 29th at the Newport Folk Festival joining Wilco guitarist […]
A few months ago MusiCares, a nonprofit organization that provides a range of safety net resources for musicians, partnered with the Princeton University Survey Research Center to publish a reporthighlighting the challenges and opportunities that musicians face. The 1,277 musicians […]
When the news arrived on Sunday evening that Aretha Franklin was gravely ill, many of us pulled out our albums and started listening to our favorites. Of course, it didn’t take such news to drive us back to the music, […]
Sixty years ago, Ralph Ellison wrote these words about Mahalia Jackson in 1958: “There are certain women singers who possess, beyond all the boundaries of our admiration for their art, an uncanny power to evoke our love.” If he were […]
When I interviewed The War and Treaty for this month’s ND Spotlight feature, they gushed about Buddy Miller — their friend, their “musical godfather,” and the producer of their new album, Healing Tide. But he was just as enamored of […]
(Another one from the early and late stream-and-read site Paper Thin Walls, published in June or early July 2008. The Myspace link still works!) Kath Bloom “Terror” from Terror (Chapter) folk/folk-rock // Out Now Long before blogs, Kath […]
In my never ending quest to bring to ND readers the length and breadth of roots music around the globe, this week the Southern Fried Festival in Perth, Scotland is featured. The festival bills itself as the “Festival of American […]
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