I’m certainly no expert on the Civil War, but somehow I stumbled upon this strange bit of forgotten history. Following the South’s defeat in the Civil War, there were many high-profile Confederates who needed to get out of the country, […]
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Seattle alt-country star Jesse Sykes recently wrote an interesting article in City Arts Magazine on our musical culture of consumption. Her take was that there’s simply too much music being turned out these days for us to adequately absorb great […]
Kentucky artists Matt Bauer, Ben Sollee, and Daniel Martin Moore talk about their heritage: Nestled into a circular booth in Seattle’s 100-year-old, local-favorite bar Hattie’s Hat, we’re getting ready to order the chicken-fried chicken, a dish so delicious that it occasioned […]
Northwest songwriter and folk musician Laura Love has been at the frontlines of political movements since she was a little kid in Omaha, Nebraska, watching Civil Right race riots with her mom. She continued this work over the years, marching […]
The ‘nets have been buzzing about Seattle’s own Bryan John Appleby ever since his newest album, Fire on the Vine, dropped this year. After finally sitting down to explore this album, I was floored to hear one of the best […]
Levi Fuller‘s a musical explorer. Sounds cliche, I know, but I do tend to think of him with a pith helmet and machete, wacking his way through an underbrush of lame MySpace pages and Web 1.0 sites to pull forth little […]
A little while ago, I got the chance to interview one of my heroes of Appalachian old-time music, Riley Baugus. Riley’s the real deal. He grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and learned as a kid from all the […]
By now the dust has nearly settled on the stunning 2011 Decemberists album, The King Is Dead. A rootsy, Americana turn-around that surprised their indie-lit core fans who were used to longer, more abstract songs, The Decemberists’ new sound dropped at a […]
Hearth Music is proud to present the second annual Seattle Folk Festival. Held December 9-11, 2011 in the city of Seattle, the Festival aims to bring together roots and indie-roots musicians from around the Northwest and beyond in an intimate, […]
I’ve been impatiently awaiting a new album from Canadian roots music artist Michael Jerome Browne for quite a while now. The last album of his that I have, Michael Jerome Browne & The Twin Rivers String Band, is one of my […]
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