Some weeks, I intentionally go into this column with a theme in mind. More often, I start throwing projects in my “maybe” folder and a trend emerges. This week, I was deep into listening through my then-unthemed week of […]
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Tomorrow would have been John Prine’s 74th birthday, and friends and family are celebrating with memories and music of the songwriting great (look for the hashtag #IRememberEverything on social media). Prine’s YouTube channel will re-air Picture Show: A Tribute […]
Elizabeth Elkins and Vanessa Olivarez are Granville Automatic. In the last edition of The Reading Room, I reviewed their new book, Hidden History of Music Row, to which Brian Allison also contributed. The group’s follow-up volume, Lost Music Row (The […]
“Pete Seeger has been part of my life for as long as I can remember,” Kronos Quartet founder and first violinist David Harrington says in an announcement for the Grammy-winning ensemble’s new album, Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and […]
As with all my columns that feature new and upcoming releases, I do not look to see beforehand what may or may not be getting a more complete review in ND or any other publication — I simply have the […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Front Country is No Depression‘s Spotlight band for October. Read more about the band and their new album, Impossible World (out Oct. 30), all month long. Third albums can be momentous in the history of a […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: “The New Normal” is an occasional series of stories that look into how the coronavirus has affected artists, listeners, and the music business. Find other stories in the series here. Nobody asked for a summer like 2020, but […]
Like everything else this year, the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass conference and festival has had to shift online, so instead of rambling from show to show in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, and crowding around jams in […]
In a full-length awards show prerecorded and socially distanced in an audience-less Ryman Auditorium, the International Bluegrass Music Association honored the genre’s stalwarts and up-and-comers Thursday night. The show, with hosting duties shared between Sierra Hull, Joe Newberry, Tim […]
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