Wondering about the well-being of writers who put their darkness out there in the light, and share it with an audience, is a mystery with no sound resolution. David Berman, the late poet and songwriter of Silver Jews’ artful American […]
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Anyone looking for intimate details about the personal life of North Carolina musician Ben Folds won’t find many of them in his new reflection on his life in music, A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap […]
During our time traveling across the Atlantic, my dad and I grew to love Ireland. So much so that we once decided to tack on a week of duo shows to the beginning of a tour of the UK and […]
In my never-ending quest to bring Through the Lens column readers up to date on intriguing upcoming (and sometimes neglected) releases, here’s the latest edition that includes four new ones plus three reissues that cover three distinct branches of roots music. I […]
If you read that headline and shook your head sadly, please know that I am a kindred spirit. I too feel a little of myself die every time I go into a big box store in September only to find […]
Hit “play” on the first track of bluegrass band Che Apalache’s new Béla Fleck-produced album Rearrange My Heart (out Aug. 9 on Free Dirt Records) and the first question that might come to mind is, “When?” The album opens with the crackling sound of […]
My parents moved into a single-family tract home in the Philadelphia suburbs sometime around 1962. There were three models in a 500 home development named Sun Valley that pretty much looked identical and ranged in price from $14,990 to $18,990. […]
“Bone Collection,” the sultry vamp that kicks off Davina and the Vagabonds’ new album, Sugar Drops (out Aug. 2 on Red House Records), couldn’t be a more perfect introduction to the ongoing conversation between anxiety and insecurity and the despair-be-damned […]
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