Welcome to the ND Roundup! This is where we’ll be sharing daily news from around the roots music world. This week we’re still reeling from a wacky election, so let’s take a listen to some new tunes and try focusing on […]
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By the time this column is published, the last presidential debate will have either occurred or been cancelled, more women may or may not have come out to tell their stories of sexual abuse at the hands of a repulsive […]
Fish were jumpin’ when T Bone Burnett conducted his first conference call with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant to discuss making an album together. The famed producer was up in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the Capilano Salmon Hatchery, perhaps thinking […]
One early Sunday afternoon a couple of weeks ago, Irene and I found ourselves driving north through Florida’s midlands, heading from a bluegrass festival to a state park near Orlando where we enjoy the quiet, the terrain, and the change […]
Aoife O’Donovan is sitting in a coffee shop in Brooklyn’s South Slope neighborhood as the last shreds of sunlight begin to shift from view in the cafe’s front windows. It’s an appropriate scene, considering her new album, out this week, […]
The holidays are nearly upon us, so why not give the gift of vinyl this year? Lots of younger folks (sometimes referred to as hipsters) are looking to get into vinyl, and those dusty old covers of ’70s country stars […]
I awoke when it was still dark outside, a good hour before my alarm was set to go off. At a slow and deliberate pace, with my eyes shut tight and my arms stretched out in front of me waving […]
When Bob Dylan appeared with an electric band at the Newport Folk Festival, in July of 1965, he virtually stopped the folk revival of the 1950s and ‘60s in its tracks and awakened folkie youth culture to the joys of […]
Every year at Bonnaroo, Ed Helms and The Bluegrass Situation curates a Bluegrass Superjam featuring performers from the festival, as well as surprise guests. This year’s BGS, seemed to feature the Punch Brothers as the backing band, and the surprise […]
At Celtic Connections 2015, Glasgow – best gig of the year so far!
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