Kevin Brown is a well loved musician, songwriter and bluegrass DJ based out of Eastern Washington, an arid land of high desert, dense forests, and some serious cowboy culture. We’ve been working with him promoting his new album, The Beloved […]
Nashville, Tennessee songwriter Arthur Alligood has been on my radar for a while now, and I feel bad this is the first chance I’ve had to write about his music. I’ve got his earlier album, I Have Not Seen the […]
There’s been a lot said about Zoe Muth, both in No Depression and beyond, with reviewers likening her to “Seattle’s Emmylou,” or an icon of underground country, but you know what’s great about Zoe? She totally transcends all the hype. […]
Since interviewing Rita Hosking about her fascinating family history in California’s Cornish mining communities, we’ve had mining songs on the brain. So we jumped at the chance to invite Brooklyn-based, but Idaho-raised, singer-songwriter Karen Dahlstrom to share the stories behind […]
We’ve written about young Newfoundland trad band The Dardanelles before. They were first one of our favorite finds of the 2011 Folk Alliance Conference, then we wrote about the amazing solo album that lead singer Matthew Byrne released. Now they’re […]
This is the start of a new series of blogs from Hearth Music focusing on some of the people behind the scenes in the roots music industry. We love interviewing and profiling musicians, but we’ve also learned a lot from […]
I’ve been getting interested in the culture of the Faroe Islands recently. First through researching Icelandic traditional music (Icelandic culture reaches down to these islands) and then while watching the hapless and infuriating new show Whale Wars: Viking Shores. If […]
Video Directed/ Produced by Sarah Fisher of Blue Lotus Films http://www.bluelotusfilms.net “Distance Between Two Points”- Written by Bill Evans & Corey Evans…
There’s something brewing up north right now. We may not get much news about it here in the States, but for over 100 days students and citizens have been marching in Montréal against tuition hikes. The proposed tuition hikes are […]
Seattle songwriter and busker Ben Fisher has the same kind of starry-eyed enthusiasm a young Dylan must have had around his heroes like Woody Guthrie. I’ve seen him at shows in Seattle, his focus 100% on the stage where one […]
