I’m deeply ashamed to say that I’ve been sitting on this article for a long time. Maybe half a year or more, and mainly because of its title. That’s a strange thing to worry about, I know, but I was […]
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Released a few months ago, The New Young Fogies, vol. 1, is a compilation album of field recordings from a new generation of Appalachian old-time players. It’s also a pure delight. About time someone took it on themselves to document […]
Rayna Gellert is perhaps best known as the fiddler for firebrand alt-old-time band Uncle Earl, and though her old-time fiddling is truly wonderful, with her new album, Old Light: Songs from My Childhood & Other Gone Worlds, she’s turning over a new […]
Guest Blog by Zach Hudson The amazing thing about singer-songwriter Martha Redbone’s new album, The Garden of Love, which sets to music twelve poems of English poet William Blake (1757 – 1827), is how well everything fits. It was as […]
Language barriers can make it a helluva hard time to really understand a music, so it’s no surprise that most reviewers and music writers think of Cajun music as being something separate than country music. If you listen to the […]
I’ve been sitting on this album for a little bit now, afraid that anything I could say about it would only diminish how much I really love it. I’ve jealously guarded these songs, savoring them, enjoying them, singing along to […]
Having just written about Daytrotter’s upcoming Justin Townes Earle / Dawes vinyl split, I ‘d moved on to other writing projects and wasn’t paying a lot of attention when they first announced a large, exclusive Daytrotter session with Mumford & Sons. […]
For years, Daytrotter has been one of the best online sources for indie music, but I sometimes wonder if people realize just the size of their catalogue of American roots music. They’ve got it all; exclusive sessions with well-known roots […]
For me, indie roots music has been a bit dry recently. Maybe I miss those old “freak folk” days when Joanna Newsom and Alela Diane were making such pretty acoustic roots music, but these days every other indie roots band […]
We’re backstage at the Voice Works festival in the bucolic seaside town of Port Townsend, Washington, and I’m about to start an unexpectedly ambitious project: interviewing five members of O’Brien Party of 7. What seems like a simple interview quickly spins […]
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