I’m passionate, nay even evangelistic about House Concerts! Not only because this is the best way possible to experience acoustic music, (IE acoustically) secondly because its winning back the living room for live music, displacing the TV, even eclipsing the […]
Every year I try and I try to cover the awesomest albums coming out in the folk/roots/world/indie roots/what-have-you genres, and every year I totally miss some great albums and feel bad about it. So this post is my annual tradition […]
The Medicine Show broadcasts Health & Happiness from the Highlands of Scotland every week, please find our Christmas Gift to all our supporters and listeners from some of our favourite artists.Merry Christmas and guid New Year everyone thanks for your […]
I’ve known Rising Appalachia for a long time now, first as the folk duo of sisters Leah and Chloe Smith, raised by Appalachian and roots music loving parents in the South, and then as the fusion-oriented bandleaders that they are […]
It’s been a little while since renowned Irish-American band Solas released their last album, Shamrock City, and I’ve been remiss in not writing about it, since it’s speaks so eloquently to the experiences of the Irish in America. Based on […]
This time last year, I was sitting in the light-filled kitchen of an old officer’s house in the historic Fort Worden, an old military complex in Port Townsend, Washington that’s been converted into the home of the influential arts organization, Centrum. Every year […]
This is the second article in an ongoing series on lesser-known North American fiddle traditions, or at least fiddle traditions that deserve more press and attention. Our first article focused on the Tennessee fiddling of Joseph DeCosimo. Now we have […]
I started doing these Inside the Songs articles based on a hunch: if a great songwriter could write a great song, couldn’t they also write a great story about it? After all, whatever inspired them to go out of their way to […]
Southern California songwriter and roots musician Walter Spencer has carved a name for himself on the streets of Los Angeles with his dementedly witty songs and frenetically eclectic performances. His songs may seem strange to squares, like his long-form ode […]
Texas songwriter Emily Herring‘s new album, Your Mistake, came over my desk about a month ago and I fell for her ice-cold honky-tonk songwriting almost immediately. She sings with such confidence, and nails hard-lived country songwriting like nobody’s business. And […]
