Your head nods … suddenly you find yourself drifting into a sea of musicians, thousands … performers and bands marching forward and back in hotel guestroom hallways. Setting up in hotel room after hotel room from the dark of night […]
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“We’ve had a blast at Celtic Connections in Glasgow! I’d been dying to come to Scotland and it has exceeded my expectations. We played Oran Mor, a breathtaking historic church that was built in 1862. Beautiful people, fantastic festival, and […]
Nearly a year ago two long established singer-songwriters from either side of the Atlantic, Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, made a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles via Texas. On the way they recorded a series of railroad songs […]
On the whole, the best music this year told the raw truth — whether it was Hayes Carll’s paean to love and loss or Robbie Fulks’ exploration of his Carolina and Virginia roots. Shovels & Rope turned toward autobiography with […]
Sixteen years into the annual Americana Music Association Conference and Festival, the event shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, what attendees used to casually refer to as a sort of miniature SXSW gathering for roots music people has […]
About halfway through Wilco’s set at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland on Sunday, Jeff Tweedy quipped that the band’s show would be followed by a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This was a reference to Wilco’s stage setup, […]
About the time Woody Guthrie would have been singing lullabies to his daughter Nora, a preteen Del McCoury was sitting in a pew at the Missionary Baptist Church listening to his mom and dad sing. Occasionally, when she got a […]
In this festive holiday season, with its Black Friday and Cyber Monday, in a world struggling to acknowledge the notion of peace and goodwill, it may be a break from the madness to read about one small way that music is being […]
The last time Billy pulled up a pew (in 2013), it turned into a CD and DVD release. Yesterday, a rumour that old comrade Wiggy would turn up to add a little extra magic to the encores didn’t bear fruit, but […]
We were sitting at a table in our local diner owned by a Greek family, eating lunch and discussing the latest headlines from the Sunday morning news shows about Donald Trump. His position on immigration had just been posted on […]
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