Lucinda Willians on stage at 2012 Philadelphia Folk Fest
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November has come, dour as a rusty pail, and I mourn my favorite month. October was a calendar painting delaying my spirit’s decay — when the leaves and thistle burnish and glimmer, and fill the air with the pungency of […]
Julian Dawson was originally an integral part of the British folk music scene. He’s performed with Richard Thompson, played in the band Plainsong with Iain Matthews, and appeared at the annual Fairport Convention reunion festival in Cropredy, which is where […]
“I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham/If I thought I could see, I could see your face.” – Emmylou Harris The year 1975 is notable for many things, including significant albums by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell, […]
It might be a slight exaggeration to suggest it would be easier to name the artists Gurf Morlix has not collaborated with rather than those he has. He’s worked with Lucinda Williams, Warren Zevon, Tom Russell, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Robert […]
A is for “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” a jazz classic partly written by a Madagascan royal; G is for “Greenville,” a Lucinda Williams country putdown redolent of 20th-century Russian Acmeist poetry. Veteran music producer and author Joe Boyd is nothing if not eclectic in “Joe […]
Emma Swift was working in a pastry shop in Sydney when she made her daily walk home past three record stores. It was, she remembers, in the days she refers to as before the death of the CD. One of […]
Had I stuck to my plan, you’d likely be reading about the emergence of cowboy hats in roots music, after the genre enjoyed a brief fling with the fedora. Coupled with prairie couture, this year has seen a subtle shift in […]
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