On a recent episode of the On Being podcast, shame researcher Brené Brown shared her finding that true belonging demands us to be who we are, even if it jeopardizes our relationships. She suggests that we must belong fully to, […]
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I don’t know how it keeps happening, but the annual Cayamo “Journey through Song” cruise just seems to get better and better. As evidenced by the narrative below by Brenda Rosser and Boom Baker, as well as their photos and […]
It isn’t often in this column that I get a chance to look backward. With the constant flow of new campaigns, I rarely take the time to go back and see how the ventures I featured here fared. In the […]
I’ve written endlessly over the years about the opportunities and challenges of discovering new music in the current paradigm. With digital streaming platforms now accounting for 80% of music revenue (RIAA Mid-2019 Report), and downloads and physical formats each running […]
When Nathaniel Rateliff began writing the songs that grew into And It’s Still Alright, his friend Richard Swift encouraged him to make a solo record, thinking it’d be liberating for Rateliff to record a project separate from his band, The […]
When George Jones sang “Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes?” (Troy Seals/Max D. Barnes), he might not have foreseen that the answer lay in a young guitarist, songwriter, and singer from Philadelphia, Mississippi, named Marty Stuart. By the time Jones’s single […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the debut “The Long Haul” column from singer-songwriter and fiddle player Rachel Baiman. Each month, Rachel will bring us dispatches from the road and the life of a working roots musician. A little after 10 […]
Our Scottish correspondent, Carol Graham, again reports on what may be the most widely attended roots music festival in the world, Celtic Connections. From veterans to newcomers, from the US to the UK, the festival revels in the connections between […]
The week in tweets started out with a bang with word from Jason Isbell of a new album. Reunions is coming May 15 via Isbell’s own Southeastern Records label, distributed by Thirty Tigers and produced, once again, by Dave Cobb. […]
During this year’s State of the Union Address, on the night before the U.S. Senate would vote on whether to remove Donald Trump from office after being impeached, the president paused to recognize conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh sitting […]
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