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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A friend’s dad dies in his seventies. Another friend succumbs to cancer at the age of 37. Trump wins. Leonard Cohen passes away. The University of Washington Huskies lose their first game of the football season. I had jury duty […]
Donald Trump is the President of America … Leonard Cohen has died. That is a sentence I never thought I would never write, and only Cohen himself would have been able to enlighten us whether the two events, so close […]
There was that night when Phil Spector had a bottle of Manischewitz in one hand and a gun in the other. He put his arm around Leonard Cohen’s shoulder and leaned in, pointing the gun into his neck and said, […]
Singer-Songwriter Leonard Cohen has died today at 82. He leaves us with a best-selling new release, You Want It Darker, and one of the most prolific legacies of song ever conceived. In fact, his canon is so important in its scope and depth, a […]
Where do great songs come from? Author, Fredrick Buechner, says his prose comes from the place where he dreams. John Prine compared songwriting to fishing as he refers to ‘catching’ songs. For North Carolina singer-songwriter, Mitch Hayes, his best songs […]
With the World Series going on, it seemed a good time for a baseball allusion. Besides, we have a lot of good music to talk about this week, covering many of the stylistic categories that comprise “roots music,” whatever that […]
Over the course of almost fifty years, Leonard Cohen has plumbed the beauty and perils of love, the fragility of existence, and the highs and lows of human history. With 2012’s Old Ideas and 2014’s Popular Problems, Cohen steered in […]
The beauty of Joan Shelley’s voice and music cascades like an ever-flowing mountain waterfall. Sprinkle in her poetic lyrics, and it’s easy to understand why the Kentucky-based singer-songwriter, who begins a 17-date tour with Patty Griffin on Oct. 30 at […]
We enter the theater and find it’s become a hall of mirrors, highly polished and meticulously disorienting. As we take our seats, we can’t tell the real from the carefully projected. The lights go down and a softly strummed arpeggio […]
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