On the whole, the best music this year told the raw truth — whether it was Hayes Carll’s paean to love and loss or Robbie Fulks’ exploration of his Carolina and Virginia roots. Shovels & Rope turned toward autobiography with […]
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Over 50 years ago, Simon and Garfunkel hit the airwaves and Billboard’s Top 100 with “The Sound of Silence,” filled with lyrics that soon echoed down subway platforms and across city parks, naming the restlessness, despair, hopelessness, solitariness of a […]
I only recently met Kenny White when he came through town on tour and I interviewed him on the radio. When we started talking off-mic about music, I knew that he would be a great artist to share his stories and […]
Watching Matt Lorenz perform in his one-man band in a small, crowded club — Daryl’s House in Pawling, New York — it’s difficult to determine what instruments he is playing. I will let him explain. “I’m sitting on a suitcase […]
I’ve known Brad Hunt for many years and he always seems happy and usually has an amusing story to share. I always remember and love that he accepted an Americana Music Award for Sonny Landreth, walking to the podium in […]
One of the richest and most revelatory releases of this half-year, Stranger to Stranger (out June 3 on Concord) continues Paul Simon’s victory lap to cap his eclectic, prolific career. He and his polyrhythmic, multinational ensemble have been previewing a few […]
As usual, there always seems to be exciting releases on the horizon. While I cannot cover everything, here is my fourth edition of some outstanding new roots muisc releases heading our way in the next few weeks. Accompanied, of course, by ND’s […]
I remember the first time I heard Bill Haley’s “Rock around the Clock.” I was visiting old friends on the beach in Westport, Connecticut, which I had moved away from a year or two before to live and go to […]
It wasn’t Atlantis, but the most magical moment of Donovan’s musical career did occur “way down by the ocean.” On a noisy, congested little island filled with taxi cabs near the Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 17, 1969, Donovan sang his […]
Originally hailing from rural Nebraska, Josh Rouse has carved out a distinguished career (ten albums since 1998) as a quality musician and songwriter. His new LP The Embers of Time was released this April via Yep Roc Records. “It’s my […]
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