The first time I spoke to Lindi Ortega, she was calling from her kitchen, having just finished washing some dishes. She was ready to talk about why she named her then-new release Little Red Boots. “I went to Nashville on […]
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Suzy Bogguss is moving back to her country roots on her next record but that doesn’t mean she’s abandoning the folk side of her sound. Her 2011 release of American Folk Songbook showed a different side of the much-honored singer-songwriter […]
In this season of renewed friendships, roots and country fans owe it to themselves to renew their acquaintances with The Sweethearts of the Rodeo. When last we saw the sisters Janis Oliver and Kristine Arnold about 16 years ago, they […]
Arlo Guthrie has resumed the tour he postponed after his wife, Jackie Guthrie, 68, died of cancer at the couple’s Florida home last month, the legendary folk singer announced. In addition, Guthrie and his family sent a heartfelt Thanksgiving message […]
“Twelve Years of Christmas,” the eighth album by the much-loved English quartet St. Agnes Fountain, made me think of something Arlo Guthrie told me a few years ago. Of course Guthrie, like his father Woody Guthrie, is best known for […]
Kathy Mattea has done it again. When the two-time GRAMMY Award winner released Coal in 2008, many critics thought it’s powerful messages about Appalachia would be impossible to replicate. That’s understandable when you consider the Charleston, W. Va. native wrote the 11 songs […]
It’s tough not to love an artist who adopts the name Tam Lin, a song made famous by British electric folk rock pioneers Fairport Convention. But Paul Weinfield, the man behind Tam Lin, is nobody’s follower. He proves that on […]
Just when you think you’re heard the best of the up-and-coming Americana stars, along comes one whose music almost takes your breathe away. Andrew Combs, whose album “Worried Man” is set for October 30 release, is one of those rare […]
This article is republished with permission from OurStage, an MTV/CMT partnership Lindi Ortega’s sound has taken a long dip into the blues, but she’s still got the soul of a country girl. Talking by phone from her mother’s Toronto home, she […]
Don’t think the copy editor-vexing capitalization used on the title and liner notes of ‘feathers&fishHooks,’ the latest release by new Nashville artist Rayland Baxter, signals anything but a love for fun. Indeed, Baxter, who has become something of a constant […]
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