Roots favorites Old Crow Medicine Show just announced plans to release a new album, Volunteer, via Columbia Records Nashville on April 20. The follow-up to their 2014 album Remedy, Volunteer marks the band’s sixth studo effort and also coincides with […]
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (4K Ultra HD) We are fortunate enough to live in an age when classic older films are being re-released in formats that allow them to benefit from the latest and greatest video and audio technology. Studios are […]
Breathing the crispness of morning air in September is the perfect pregame ritual before hitting the highway to Nashville for the annual Americanafest. After missing the ultimate party thrown by the Americana Music Association last year for just the second time in […]
Once again, I’m happy to present my friend Mark J. Smith’s electric reporting, including photos, of course, from one of the oldest (56 years and counting) and most prestigious roots festivals, the Philadelphia Folk Festival. As most readers of this column […]
Like snake oil healers, Old Crow Medicine Show lays hands on Dylan’s myriad symptoms of unrequited or forsaken love, as detailed in his classic 1966 double album. Their zealously empathetic remake of Blonde on Blonde follows Dylan’s odyssey through the heart’s impossibly verdant […]
From the moment Old Crow Medicine Show boisterously emerged from the side of the stage at Denver’s Paramount Theatre two months ago, I knew we were in for a special night. It was a show to cover Bob Dylan’s classic—and […]
I have been thinking a lot about John Hartford lately. And the banjo. About how one of the most popular songs of the 20th century (“Gentle on My Mind”) was written on the banjo, and its journey to prominence today […]
Is that a sacrilegious statement? Possibly, but even the most ardent fans of Bob Dylan (and specifically of his seminal album Blonde on Blonde) have to admit that Dylan’s vocals have never been what drew his fans to him. Old […]
The big to-do in our little corner of the music world this week was Folk Alliance International’s annual get together, which brought folk musicians, fans, and industry-types together in Kansas City. The official theme was “Forbidden Folk: Celebrating Activism in […]
“Old people always think their time, their format, was better. Mine actually was.” — Tom Petty on PBS’s Soundbreaking The bluegrass community, seemingly quite small, actually consists of thousands, perhaps millions, of people around the world who celebrate a musical form that, […]
