Even a pandemic can’t stop the madness that is Black Friday, though in the name of safety (sure, sure), many big-box stores have already started their sales in hopes of spreading the shopping out a bit. Much more deserving of […]
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Nominations for the 63rd annual Grammy Awards landed today, and there are roots music names sprinkled widely throughout the categories. Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile) and Dan Auerbach (Yola, Gibson Brothers, Marcus King) are among the […]
As we near the end of the year, the opening line of William Shakespeare’s Richard III rings true, and could easily have been written in 2020: “Now is the winter of our discontent.” The acknowledgement that the world has weathered a […]
The Carter Family. The Louvin Brothers. Bill Monroe. Those are among the artists you hear most mentioned when you talk about “roots music.” But as newer generations of artists come along, the definition, and the breadth, of roots music has […]
Like Dolly Parton hasn’t already put enough goodness into the world — through her songs, her wit, her book-mailing Imagination Library program, her monthly $1,000 donations to families left homeless by wildfires in her Tennessee homeland in 2016, and […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As his new album, The End Is New, comes out today, Matt Lorenz of The Suitcase Junket writes about how he came to look — and listen — to things differently. I remember the moment it […]
Chris Hillman’s refreshingly candid new memoir, Time Between: My Life as a Byrd, Burrito Brother, and Beyond (BMG), opens with an eerily apocalyptic scene on the night of Hillman’s 73rd birthday on Dec. 4, 2017. Around 11 p.m., his […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Singer-songwriter and activist Ani DiFranco’s new album, Revolutionary Love, is scheduled for release on Jan. 29, 2021. The title track from it is out today. Listen below and read about what the title and the concept behind […]
I know we all miss live shows, and that collective energy, the camaraderie, the excitement, that connection between artist and audience that simply cannot duplicated either on record or video. However, until the beast of the coronavirus can be tamed, […]
One kind of whirlwind was responsible for most of Gillian Welch’s 2020 collection of demos, Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, but it took another to bring the songs out of storage nearly two decades after their creation. The […]
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