Ben Fisher is a wonderful songwriter, performer, and all -around great guy. But he’s also a masterful street performer (or busker), and this is a very fine art as I’ve discovered. For a while there was a video going around of […]
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I first fell in love with Texas while working for the International Accordion Festival in San Antonio, so in my mind when I think of Texas, I think of the wonderfully vibrant Tex-Mex culture of San Antonio. I’ve never been to […]
Mike Tod’s California Folk Journey The California Recordings is an intriguing slice of lo-fi indie-folk from Calgary-based songwriter and folk traveler Mike Todd. It’s the result of Tod’s travels through the wooded hinterlands of Northern California in summer 2012, and […]
Guest Blog by Llyn De Danaan The Celtic Colours Festival, named for the adornment of brilliant fall foliage that cloaks the hills on Cape Breton in October, recently finished its 16th year. Its mission, as Joella Foulds, founder and artistic […]
I first heard about fiddler and songwriter Jenny Anne Mannan from my friend Kevin Brown, an excellent bluegrass roots songwriter (and festival producer) who knows much about roots music in Eastern Washington (Jenny Anne lives in Spokane, WA). Having just […]
After the popularity of last year’s regretful column, we’re bringing back our list of shame from 2012. Each week we receive new music lovingly packaged, often by the artists themselves, and each week we fail to write about most of […]
I spend a lot of my time thinking about how traditional music and traditional culture is still relevant in our lives. I listen to a lot of bands that are putting new spins on old traditions, and I work as […]
Gritty Swedish Blues from Bror Gunnar Jansson I was just complaining today about “limp-wristed” modern interpretations of hard-edged Southern roots music. This music wasn’t made for a bunch of Northerners to dress up in hokey costumes and sing “quaint” songs about […]
As any musician knows, Facebook is a nightmare these days. With a new algorithm that effectively blocks your posts from being viewed by your fans, and the constant demand to “sponsor” your content by tossing money into Zuckerberg’s greedy hands, it’s […]
We just wrote about Eugene, OR-based singer-songwriter Jeffrey Martin a few months ago with an Inside the Songs feature, but now he’s back with a new EP that proves once again what a natural talent he has for writing great […]
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