For 18 years now, at least part of the last week in April has marked for me a Great Unplugging. I set aside work and much of my “real” life to head to the foothills of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains for […]
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Jason Isbell took no prisoners tonight in Portsmouth. The Oreo cake must have done him good that he talked so happily about. He said a number of times about how cool a space it was at the Portsmouth Pavilion, how […]
Just for a moment, let me indulge in that most obnoxious of fan brags, the dreaded “I saw them before they got big.” It was MerleFest, a million years ago (early aughts, to be slightly more precise), and I was making […]
The past two years have been good ones for Americana superstar Jason Isbell. After his 2015 album Something More Than Free topped Billboard’s Rock, Folk, and Country charts, it went on to snag a pair of Americana Music Awards and […]
By the time she appeared with Billy Joe Shaver at the Open Highway Festival in St. Louis, it seemed like a lifetime ago when Amanda Shires impulsively jumped onstage to play fiddle at one of Shaver’s shows. Shaver hired the […]
Roots artists made a bit of a splash when Grammy nominations were announced late last year — prompting Sturgill Simpson to print up some “Who the F*** is Sturgill Simpson?” T-shirts — and they didn’t disappoint at the big show last […]
Remember when weekends were just for laying around and not doing much of anything? Now there’s a protest on every corner and a lot of people searching for ways to vent their frustration, their anger, their fears. Music, as always, […]
Happy new year, folks! It’s going to be a good one ’round here — lots of great stuff in the pipeline for our website and our print journals that we can’t wait to show you. But there’s always room for […]
There is nothing finer than Gillian Welch and David Rawlings at the Ryman – and no one I’d rather see there. Like the Ryman itself, one does not see or hear Welch and Rawlings; one experiences them. You come under their […]
The tavern floor is littered with the detritus of year-end lists, torn up in disgust or frustration or mild disagreement. What’s next? What comes to take the place of the short-lived glory of the books that sit on shelves unopened […]
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