Fiddle player Byron Berline could play bluegrass and old-time with the best of them (and, in fact, he did, with a stint as one of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys early in his career), but he knew how to […]
0
Last week’s column featured a short review of Mary Gauthier’s new book, Saved by a Song, and an excerpt from the book’s introduction. This week, I talk with Mary about her process of writing the book and her ideas about […]
The pandemic may have shuttered venues and record stores for a while last year, but the music kept going, and we’re so happy to see that the physical places that support it — those venues and stores — are beginning […]
The June 8 edition of this column listed 30 festivals coming our way this year. ND photographer Peter Dervin attended two of those festivals, Jackalope and Waterfront Blues Festival “Upriver,” both in Oregon, and this week he reports on the […]
With the world shut down for most of 2020, it was hard to predict what 2021 would bring in terms of music. The end of full-band rockers? A glut of lonely songs from people’s bedrooms? Nothing at all? Thankfully, […]
Though they’ve been making music since 1989, The Wallflowers didn’t grab the world’s attention until seven years into their career, when they released their second studio album, Bringing Down the Horse. With hardly any warning, this record would prove […]
As the wheels of tour buses (and vans and cars) start rolling again, there have been some interesting effects on artists and venues. After all, usually tours are cyclical and not everyone is doing it at the same time, […]
When Mary Gauthier was 7 years old, she and her mother would head to the bookmobile on Saturday mornings near their home in Baton Rouge. It was her favorite day of the week. After she got inside the mobile library, […]
They were once “More a Legend Than a Band.” That’s what happens when your debut album’s release is delayed nearly 20 years and your principal members in the meantime go on to great critical success as solo acts. Since […]
During my first vacation in several years last week I listened to a slew of upcoming albums when I wasn’t listening to the spirit-renewing sounds of the wind and waters of the Atlantic Ocean and children screaming with delight as […]
SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
AVAILABLE NOW
AVAILABLE NOW
