Once again, I’m writing from the tour van, which is currently on its way home to Boston from North Carolina (a 14-hour drive that my bandmates have bravely chosen to undertake in one day). We’ve just completed a weeklong run […]
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Being on the road can be rough on a musician. In fact, the late, great Merle Haggard has been quoted as saying he didn’t realize he was signing up for a 40-year bus tour when he decided to become a […]
The pleasantries of this new CD by the four-piece band Mipso – Coming Down the Mountain – are the delightful female vocals of fiddler Libby Rodenbough. While the musicians definitely play wonderfully, the personality of the band is the distinctive Rodenbough […]
By now you you have read Kim’s enchanting piece on this year’s MerleFest, now comes my take on MerleFest at 30. Rather than a blow by blow, I’ll go with some takeaways. Here now are mine for MerleFest’s 30th edition. […]
Merlefest has just capped its 30th festival, and what a year it was. The festival packed into four days a diverse array of artists, including festival favorites Scythian, stars like James Taylor, old masters like Happy Traum, innovators like Sam Bush […]
I never thought big could be beautiful when it came to Americana festival crowds. I’ve changed my mind after seeing the bright lights of Bristol, TN/VA and its 50,000-plus. Or maybe I’m just infatuated with festivals themselves. Perhaps, if I […]
There has been a proliferation of music festivals, largely with an emphasis on rootsy music over the past decade or so, especially here in Virginia, from my wife’s and my favorite, the somewhat recent addition to the scene, the Red […]
Mipso’s charming and vivacious fiddler / vocalist / songwriter Libby Rodenbough, who’d been dressed in a startlingly tight, dazzlingly white outfit for their earlier Red Wing performance, said she almost burst (her) eardrums for a front-row dose of Dawes. at […]
The thing that Mipso has – in addition to great musicianship, downhome charm, and a growing stable of memorable songs – is range. You can hear it on their records, and in every live show. You can also hear it in […]
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