The original title for this week’s column was “Fish and Music I’ve Caught in the Stream,” and while it was pretty easy to collect some great music from playlists and recommendations on the various digitized platforms that I jump around […]
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Since coming up from New York’s avant downtown scene in the 1970s, guitarist Marc Ribot has played a wildly iconoclastic mix of free jazz, post-punk rock, Afro-Cuban dance music, and Americana roots. Over the course of 25 albums these kinds […]
What if god is a 17-year-old girl with purple hair standing in front of a Marshall amp playing a red guitar? — David Olney Most Asked Question of the Week What the fuck is Americana? Some asked in earnest, but to […]
The week leading up to AmericanFest offers up a slew of outstanding new roots music releases, from a couple that you most likely have heard about and a bunch more that I do not want to drop off the map. […]
Marc Ribot has been an activist for years. For 2018, though, he’s doing something new. He’s been a “rank and file” activist with his union, as he puts it. He’s attended Occupy rallies. He’s never been much for established party […]
When Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival began in 2001, at the urging of fellow West Virginia native Hazel Dickens, it was called Strictly Bluegrass. But, in 2004, in order to reflect the wider changes in roots music, the word “Hardly” was added. […]
My first “Through the Lens” weekly slideshow showcases eight artists who performed during the Americana Music Association Festival, which concluded two weeks ago in Nashville. However, as I was browsing the photos, I found that we had just two No Depression photographers […]
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