Carrie Rodriguez, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter, brings her own special and inspiring blend of roots music to this year’s Freshgrass Festival in North Adams, Mass., appearing Sunday, Sept. 17, at 1 p.m. I caught up with her by phone recently for a laugh-filled […]
Five decades after “Angel of the Morning” became a Top 10 hit for Merrilee Rush, Chip Taylor gets “the same chill” when he sings it as he did when he wrote it in the 1960s. “I never wrote it as […]
Alejandro Escovedo – punk–alt country-roots rocker, writer, legend – started out in the worst band in the world. Way back in his teens, he and his friends made a film. “The Worst Band in the World was like the way […]
It’s always nice to bring in some fellow Northern California DJs to the column. In the case of this week’s spotlighted DJ, he’s even from my home turf of Sonoma County. Even though I’ve known Brian Griffith for many years, I’ve […]
We are in for some treats this week, as a lot has been happening this summer in the world of roots music — captured by ND’s crack photographers. (The good news is that the summer isn’t even half over.) First […]
SXSW — the annual set of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that were held this March 11-20 in Austin, Texas — began in 1987 and has continued to grow in both scope and size every year. It is the largest music festival of its […]
Carrie Rodriguez performs at SXSW 2016 in Austin, Texas
I first met Kay Clements back in the 1990s at the Strawberry Music Festival and we became fast friends, bonded by a passion for music and radio. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio, and what were […]
The beautiful and talented Carrie Rodriguez returns to her roots with her latest record Lola, a mix of Spanish and English songs (and a few somewhere in between). And though she brings her own modern identity to the album, Rodriguez sought […]
Vocalist and violinist Carrie Rodriguez, who made a series of wonderful albums with folk singer/songwriter Chip Taylor, has been recording on her own for a decade now with increasingly impressive results. The new Lola, her fifth full-length solo studio set, […]
