This story first appeared on the Isthmus website. It is dedicated to the memory of Clark Anderson, slide guitarist, union organizer and friend. By Marc Eisen Yeah, I got a music jones. About 500 concerts and shows’ worth over 10 years. […]
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Bluegrass has, I think often unfairly, been seen as culturally and politically conservative. Folks forget that when it first began, it rocked the boat of traditional music, sorta like what bebop was to swing. That tradition continued a few weeks ago in Raleigh, North Carolina, with lots […]
We are in for some treats this week, as a lot has been happening this summer in the world of roots music — captured by ND’s crack photographers. (The good news is that the summer isn’t even half over.) First […]
Several years ago at Strawberry Park — a bluegrass festival in a commercial campground near New London, Connecticut, about halfway between New York City and Boston — I went to the workshop tent to hear Kimber Ludiker. She’s that marvelous fiddler and founder […]
We just spent the weekend at a small bluegrass festival on a field near Oakboro, North Carolina. Big Lick is the first outdoor festival in the long North Carolina season, which runs from now until the middle of October, although […]
My wife and I first drove up the steep hill to the top of the Wilkes Community College campus in late April of 2003. We had heard of the groundbreaking music festival known as MerleFest several years earlier, but now we […]
A On October 1, 2015, the International Bluegrass Association (IBMA) recognized the Chuck Wagon Gang’s long career and enduring contributions to country gospel music when it awarded “Best Loner Notes for a Recorded Project” and “Best Graphic Design for a […]
How many Slim Harpo recordings do you know? Perhaps you’ve heard “Raining in My Heart” (not the Buddy Holly tune), which made it to No. 34 on Billboard’s pop chart in 1961; “Baby, Scratch My Back,” which reached No. 16 […]
The Birthplace of Country Music organisation has announced the release on May 12 2015 of Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited. This album celebrates the impact that the 1927 Bristol Sessions in Bristol (Virginia/Tennessee) had on the country music […]
Marty Stuart knows who EmiSunshine is. So do those who have clicked the YouTube video of her singing “Folsom Prison Blues,” last March in Knoxville’s Market Square 1,681,526 times and counting. But, in the greater world of country music, EmiSunshine, […]
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