As I sit down with a blank screen in front of me to write my weekly column, I usually begin the process by heading over to No Depression‘s website to check out what’s on the minds of some of the […]
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Lucy Clabby grew up in Wilmette, Illinois, spending happy summer days reading at her spacious local public library. “They had a great YA section, and on beautiful sunny days, I could stay there all day reading,” she recalls fondly. Her […]
Margo Price is always full of (delightful!) surprises, and in these hard times she’s wrapped up one more: a new live album, out today, titled Perfectly Imperfect at The Ryman. The songs, recorded live during her three-night run of sold-out […]
Last summer, I had booked my first headlining gig at The Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan, an historic folk venue with a great reputation. Because I was excited about the opportunity, I was willing to deal with the logistics that […]
“The past beats inside me like a second heart.” — John Banville (The Sea) Everyone has their year, and many writers have postulated why a certain year was the greatest one for music. I submit that 1973 was that year […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Gretchen Peters’ new album, The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury, is released today. We asked her to talk about why Newbury resonates so strongly with her, and she decided to address him directly. […]
Sometime during my first week of our pandemic lockdown I was mindlessly surfing through Facebook, as one does, when I came across two women playing and singing in a casual setting with minimal production value but pretty good audio quality. […]
Food and music create a sense of place for us. We likely can still smell the bread or the casserole that mama would bake when we were in second grade and out playing in the yard before supper. A bite […]
The entire roots music community has been hit hard by the coronavirus: record labels, PR firms, venues, record stores, writers, photographers, publications, and, most of all, the working artists without whom the others wouldn’t exist. Even amid the hardship of […]
If you’re like me, your social media feed is probably full of artists doing Facebook or Instagram livestreamed “virtual concerts” to keep busy and hopefully generate some tips and merchandise sales while they can’t tour. But the concert industry supports […]
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