The Watkins Family Hour began a dozen or so years ago as a way for a group of friends to get together and play old and new tunes. For Sean and Sara Watkins, it served as a monthly bit of […]
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As a songwriter in Nashville, Chris Stapleton has written hits for Kenny Chesney, George Strait and Darius Rucker. As a singer, he once led the bluegrass band The SteelDrivers, and more recently stepped into the solo spotlight with Traveller, his […]
He came so humble, holding his acoustic guitar and wearing his heart on his sleeve. Trey Anastasio isn’t new to NPR: Concerts of his have even included “All Things Reconsidered,” a variation on the All Things Considered theme. Anastasio was […]
The moment Brooklyn soul singer Sharon Jones sang the line, “We’re cooking up the brisket the kosher butcher sold my uncle Saul,” I knew the world had a new Hanukkah classic. This week, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings played a […]
Nick Waterhouse is an R&B fanatic who has an uncanny old-school sensibility charged with a slick contemporary style. He plays rhythm and blues music like it’s new again — raw, rhythmic, vital, without irony or scent of revivalism. For Waterhouse, the muse is the […]
Nick Waterhouse performs an invigorating live session of “Some Place” from his album ‘Time’s All Gone for Yours Truly’ at Different Fur Studios in San Francisco.
Dale Watson performing “Call Me Insane” live in the KEXP studio. Recorded October 9, 2015.
This week’s installment of Eye On Roots focuses on Jim White. White is a Southern Gothic alt-country singer-songwriter. While his music is based in Americana, he borrows elements from rock, rhythm and blues, and even electronica, often piecing sounds together […]
When Jim White and the guys from Packway Handle Band came to visit our office this summer, we had no idea that they had never played live together before. The two acts combined forces last year to form Jim White […]
Jim White is a storyteller first, a musician second. When I first heard his music more than a decade ago, I felt compelled to call him up. His musical tales were so compelling, I thought he’d make a great storyteller […]
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