As my wife and I have traveled over the last 15 years, during what some would call our retirement, we’ve experienced bluegrass music as what I thought to be a national music phenomenon. Recently, I read a book called Bluegrass […]
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In the 1970s during the punk versus disco wars, there was also a revolution going on. Even though it was somewhat of an underground one and garnered not much attention outside certain circles, it nonetheless moved a mountain. The mountain […]
On Monday afternoon, numbed from days — or rather months — of wall-to-wall political talk focused at least somewhat on analysis of poll after poll on two of the three cable news channels, Irene slipped a rented film into our […]
The 55th Annual Philadelphia Folk Festival just ended, and we are fortunate that ND photographer Mark J. Smith was there to capture so many great photos and provide this week’s commentary. As he first attended the festival in 1970, he knows his way […]
We’ve seen the Del McCoury Band at two midsized bluegrass festivals this summer. At age 77 — and having been inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 2011 — you’d think that McCoury has earned himself a […]
Walking into St. Louis’ Sheldon Concert Hall on the evening of March 12 2016 was like stepping into a time warp. Moving between the tall pillars that lined the building’s entrance and pulling open the large wooden doors instantly transported […]
With the addition of the Fayettes, Charlie Faye takes one of the sweetest voices in Americana and crafts smart soul-pop that merges the swinging, swaying sound and style of ’60s girl groups with a more modern take. Her music is current and danceable, at the […]
When an artist releases an album that really resonates with a wide swath of people, it can be a challenge to match that kind of momentum with a follow-up. In a way, it’s unfair to compare one album with another; […]
Legends. It’s been a week of legends. Another legend passing, while the stories of three legends — Hank Williams, Miles Davis, and Chet Baker — grace the silver screen. Through each, we see what we want to see, feel what we […]
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 […]
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