With so much happening during the past few weeks, there was not the time to hear from our favorite Pennsylvania contributor to this column, Mark J. Smith. Mark knows the Philadelphia Folk Festival well, and yet he always is discovering […]
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In 2017, Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard were inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Hall of Fame. With the exception of women who were part of a band, and usually a family band, e.g., the famous Carter Family, […]
Debuting at number eight on the Billboard Blues chart, the new self-titled CD from Louisiana musician Jonathon Long treats listeners to a rich gumbo of blues, country and a touch of southern rock. While Long’s hometown of Baton Rouge has […]
Scott Chasolen’s newest single, ‘Limbo’, is known for the prolific pianist stepping foot into a plain of subtle. Beautiful in its graceful, emotive tidings, the song soars in its ability to transcend even Chasolen’s brilliance as a musician to showcase […]
Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue and their many Louisiana musical friends brought their months-long national Voodoo Threauxdown Tour to a magnificent finale in Taos, New Mexico, on Sept. 22 in an AMP Concerts presentation. The show kicked off just before […]
A beautiful Fall day called for equally as beautiful music, so I immediately wanted to catch Westchester’s own Rebecca Haviland and Sloan Wainwright for a lovely evening at Chappaqua Performing Arts Center in suburban New York. The intimacy of […]
Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue and their many Louisiana musical friends brought their months-long national Voodoo Threauxdown Tour to a magnificent finale in Taos, New Mexico September 22 in an AMP Concerts presentation. The show kicked off just before sunset […]
I am in love with Paul Moody and the Revelators. The bands latest single “Hate Being Alone” is everything I think a song should be. The track winds slowly towards giant horns that feel just unexpected enough to thrill me […]
There’s a lot of soul in this week’s new releases, both literally and figuratively, so prepare to move and be moved. I think I’m most excited about the newly unearthed early recordings from Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard. On Sing […]
“Well,” Kari Arnett thought to herself, “what do I know? I’m only a woman.” It started as a feeling when Arnett would try and offer songwriting suggestions to her male band counterparts and would get shut down. Maybe my opinion […]
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