Well it’s only June, but I’m going to call it and say that the award for Weirdest/Most Gonzo Roots Music Recording of 2013 will be a tie between the madcap sea chantey compilation Son of Rogue’s Gallery and the unprecedented […]
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We’re back again with our annual guide to the hugely humongous Northwest Folklife Festival, this Memorial Day Weekend, May 24-27, 2013. This is the largest community music festival in the nation, with (last I checked) 800+ bands, 25+ stages, and so […]
Iarla Ó Lionáird has a preternatural ability to change the way we hear traditional music. Heir to the rich and ancient tradition of Irish sean-nos singing (unaccompanied ballads in the Irish language), he’s turned this insider musical art form (often performed […]
In honor of May Day (International Worker’s Day), we’re proud to present this interview with Appalachian labor activist Saro Lynch-Thomason, who recently released an impressive compilation album, Blair Pathways, of artists dedicated to remembering the Battle of Blair Mountain. This was […]
Young Tennessee old-time fiddler/banjo player Joseph Decosimo’s album, Sequatchie Valley, is one of my jealously guarded treasures. It’s an album filled with unexpected delights: beautiful tunes and songs learned directly from elder musicians from Joseph’s home state. The fiddle tunes […]
Let me first say that I hate folk-pop music. God, how I hate it. I hate it because invariably the folk is the smallest consideration in the equation. It’s usually just standard pop music with one acoustic guitar in the […]
I met Anna Tivel at the same fateful Triple Door show that brought me Inside the Songs features for Jeffrey Martin and Nathaniel Talbot, and the three are all friends and colleagues. Together they’re building quite a creative songwriting community! On her […]
Our pile of awesome new albums of Southern old-time music is growing by the day and this makes us happy! There’s nothing we like more than lots of albums of barn-burning fiddle and banjo duets, or eerie old mountain ballads. Here’s […]
The Folk Alliance International Conference was held this year in Toronto, and what a rush it was! It was my second year attending as a publicist for HearthPR, and also as a freelance roots music writer. This year I was able […]
I first heard Washington State songwriter Nathaniel Talbot at a songwriter’s showcase in the Triple Door’s Musiquarium lounge. He was playing with Jeffrey Martin (who’s already done an Inside the Songs HERE) and Anna Tivel (who’s scheduled for an upcoming Inside […]
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