If you’re reading this you’re likely either on your way to Nashville or already there. Or, if you’re like me and a few hundred thousand other roots music fans, you’ll be staying right where you are and feeling awful because […]
In conjunction with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings’ 70th anniversary comes a collection of African American cowboy songs titled Black Cowboys. The almost legendary interpreter to such anthems in this collection is none other than founding Carolina Chocolate Drop and historian, scholar, collector, […]
“Now, this ain’t no hat exchange. You keep your hat and I’ll keep mine and that way everyone will be happy.” An enthusiastic audience member offered to trade his hat for Dom’s signature vintage hat but Dom wasn’t having any […]
Mipso’s charming and vivacious fiddler / vocalist / songwriter Libby Rodenbough, who’d been dressed in a startlingly tight, dazzlingly white outfit for their earlier Red Wing performance, said she almost burst (her) eardrums for a front-row dose of Dawes. at […]
Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley are fortunate to have Trent Wagler and The Steel Wheels band, not to mention Eastern Mennonite University that initially brought the band members here as students, not to mention the influence on the band […]
Shooting Dom Flemons was a thrill for me. Having shot him with The Carolina Chocolate Drops a couple of times it was an opportunity to shoot him solo…..or actually with his new band. When the show started I said Oh […]
Shooting Dom Flemons was a thrill for me. Having shot him with The Carolina Chocolate Drops a couple of times it was an opportunity to shoot him solo…..or actually with his new band. When the show started I said Oh […]
Where do I start to tell the story of Lead Belly Fest, an amazing tribute to Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter held at Carnegie Hall, first staged at Royal Albert Hall in London last year? Carnegie Hall was the site of Lead […]
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