For most of us in the roots music world, the important Grammys are given out while the pop stars are still shimmying into their red carpet gowns. We’re talking about the American Roots categories, of course, which include awards for […]
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Singer, guitarist, and lyricist Adia Victoria’s words and music transcend genre classification and remind us of the variety of artists and mediums in Nashville, a city that’s a limiting label unto its swiftly gentrifying self. Becoming her own artist began […]
After the British Invasion led by The Beatles brought forth hundreds of new English bands, American record labels began aggressively looking for homegrown talent in the mid-1960s. Fanning out across the country as if it were a military operation, they […]
It seems like a glamorous life from the outside. Stand under a spotlight playing music to crowds of people who are there just to see and hear what you have to give. Travel around getting paid to do what you […]
Henry Jamison grew up with the dream of being a baseball player. He says that he “had some desire to fall into that quarterback-cheerleader summer romance, and that never happened for me.” Instead, he wound up at Bowdoin College in […]
Every so often, I get on Facebook and solicit questions to inspire this column — usually when I feel like I’ve run out of ideas. I ask people, non-musicians in particular, what elements of a musician’s life they’re curious about. […]
Since he began performing more than six decades ago, Roland White has left his mark on bluegrass music with his singing, guitar playing, and particularly his mandolin playing, which has been inspiring to multiple generations of musicians. His discography […]
If you play crowdfunding word association with most people, the first answer you’d get back is likely “Kickstarter.” The second, particularly if they are consumers of crowdfunded music, is “PledgeMusic.” But both those sites were predated by a little site […]
Mystery writer Lawrence Bock wrote a series of books based on a former police detective named Matthew Scudder that often made reference to butchers who worked at the meatpacking plants going to Mass early in the morning wearing their blood-stained […]
When an artist of any kind has a new project coming out, there are plenty of outlets that let them talk about it, usually by way of promotion. But what you don’t hear so often is just a chat with […]
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