Twenty miles west of where the Missouri river diverges from the rib of the Mississippi sits the town of Ferguson. This northern suburb of St. Louis, once a blip on the map, now remains lodged like Jerusalem in the viscera […]
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As we plow into another week of our subscription drive (which we’re running until June 15), I thought it a good time to pop back into this space and give you an update. We still need about 1,200 more subscribers […]
One of the reasons I was an avid reader of the original print edition of ND was to discover new folks of whom I was unaware and who piqued my interest. A couple weeks back I asked some ND contributors who […]
As Donald Trump is sworn in as president today, I don’t feel anger, I don’t feel joy, I only feel shame. Shame that we would have put this person into the highest position of power in the nation. Shame that […]
Last week the Americana Music Association released its year-end list of songs that got the most airplay on Americana radio, and in the next few weeks No Depression and other like-minded music websites and mags will publish their own music […]
It is stripped back and measured, but Kaia Kater has a lot to say. Her new (and second) album Nine Pin (via Kingswood Records) delves into issues faced by African-Americans today and reflects on her own heritage duality. Born of African-Caribbean descent in Québec, she […]
Welcome to the front door of Roots Music and Random Thoughts where each week (or whenever I feel like it) I curate, aggregate and update news, events, images, ideas, sounds, odds and ends. Consider my effort simply a speck of dust on the […]
Astute instrumental breaks, good production, and powerful pipes can always impress, but a good band isn’t going to go very far if they don’t have great songwriting. Indeed, bar-raising songwriting is what unites all our spotlighted releases this week – […]
Kaia Kater isn’t just an excellent banjo player. She’s a force to be reckoned with. When I started writing about music almost five years ago, I promised my readers that I would feature artists who sounded like their lives depended on […]
Some young artists lately are quietly impressing me with their interpretative powers, their sharpened talent and meticulous creativity. Of course, the majority of the Top 50 music we hear today be it country, pop, rock, hop-hop or rap is music […]
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