Having recently watched BBC’s Lost Highway: the Story of Country Music has me yearning to see the PBS broadcast of Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music over Labor Day weekend, and Ken Burns’ eight-part PBS documentary Country Music to […]
This week is a first for the Through the Lens column: the Newport Folk Festival. From Pete Seeger to Bob Dylan to Brandi Carlile, the festival has always been not just a showcase of the music that binds us, but also […]
Red Dead Redemption 2, the hit Western-inspired video game from Rockstar Games, is easily the most beautiful video game I’ve ever played. I stop to look at vast mountain vistas, then ride off to explore them on horseback. I ford […]
Like a lot of other families back in the 1950s, we owned a black-and-white television that sat in our parlor in front of the old red couch. It had a tiny little screen built into a large walnut cabinet and […]
While there have been many great albums released so far this year, there haven’t been so many great music books published so far this year. That’s not too surprising, since publishers usually save their big books for the fall, and […]
Live from Nashville on Wednesday, the International Bluegrass Music Association announced the nominees for its 2019 awards, as voted by the association’s professional members and committee members. The awards will be given out Thursday, Sept. 26, during IBMA’s World of […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Tui — the old-time duo of Libby Weitnauer and Jake Blount — is No Depression‘s Spotlight band for July 2019. Read our feature story about them here, plus an essay from Blount on the power of the banjo […]
John Prine and his independent record label, Oh Boy Records, announced today that the 72-year-old singer will be forced to reschedule eight upcoming dates on his summer tour. As they shared on Instagram, “In consultation with his doctors, John has […]
While summertime for music fans has always meant festival time, this year has seen a significant increase the number of such events. Beginning with this column I will feature five festivals in four weeks. This week Larry John Fowler reports […]
In my last column, I explored three established artists who chose to crowdfund their new albums to retain creative control. Little did I know that, soon after I turned my draft in for that column, what is shaping up to […]
