The final day of Bonnaroo 2017 is over, Centeroo is closed, and the Farm has returned to being a farm with a lowercase “f” for another year. Sunday at Bonnaroo is always a feast for fans of roots music, not […]
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The third day of the 2017 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is in the books and it was the true definition of a full day of music. My musical Saturday at Bonnaroo began at Noon and ended at 3:00 Sunday […]
It’s typically fruitless to search for signs of the Apocalypse, but I believe I spotted one last night in Seattle: A near-capacity crowd of more than a thousand people in the sanctuary city where I live singing along, at full […]
This week we take in some of the outstanding pictures our ND photographers have posted during the past couple of weeks. It’s a nice selection of established folks, including some I have not seen in awhile, with some fresh newer […]
“We’ve had a blast at Celtic Connections in Glasgow! I’d been dying to come to Scotland and it has exceeded my expectations. We played Oran Mor, a breathtaking historic church that was built in 1862. Beautiful people, fantastic festival, and […]
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 […]
AltCountry&Beyond’s 15 Favorite Albums of 2016 2016 was another banner year for music, though we also grieve for lost music legends like Merle Haggard and Guy Clarke, among others, who made inspired contributions to country and roots music. Like last […]
At the end of AmericanaFest Margo Price tweeted and Instagramed, “It was one helluva week.” I will go further: it was one hell of a year. Americana got its own Billboard chart, Americana for the first time outsold country, a firmly established […]
What a year, right? I hesitate to dwell too much on world events in this space, other than to acknowledge that we have all experienced them, have all no doubt been rocked by them in one way or another. If […]
Many of the usual suspects will notice a different annual “Best of” column to close out 2016. Over the last few years, I’ve only been purchasing vinyl records. There is a special kind of comfort when visiting local independent stores […]
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