If you’ve been to the merch table at a roots music concert lately, you’ve probably noticed what I’ve noticed: Vinyl is front and center, and CDs are sort of an afterthought, if they’re available at all. That trend is […]
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Our Arizona correspondent C. Elliott once again covered two Arizona roots festivals that took place on back-to-back weekends recently. The first, Innings Festival, was held Feb. 25 and 26 in Tempe, Arizona, and the second, M3F, formerly known as […]
When the news spread last weekend that multi-instrumentalist David Lindley had died, musicians from virtually every modern genre expressed sadness and appreciation. He recorded and toured with hit singer-songwriters in the pop world like Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, and […]
Musician, composer, and producer Mitch Greenhill has led a charmed life. His father, Manny, founded Folklore Productions in 1957, which led to parade of artists including Rev. Gary Davis, Peter Seeger, and Sonny Terry passing through the Greenhill house. As […]
The Outlaw Country Cruise (OCC), like the Cayamo cruise that’s the subject of last week’s column, is a self-contained music festival on a ship, but with an emphasis, as its name suggests, on outlaw country. By all accounts of […]
Scientists have long paid attention to how music and memory are intertwined. We know that when we hear a song that was all over the radio when we graduated from high school, we can time travel, almost, back to […]
Since 2008, Cayamo, the annual cruise billing itself as “A Journey Through Song,” has gained a well-deserved reputation for bringing together a rather eclectic group of roots musicians for a weeklong sail through the Caribbean. This year’s edition embarked […]
As part of its live programming marking Black History Month, the Grand Ole Opry aired video last weekend of an apology it formally issued last August to harmonica player and early Opry performer DeFord Bailey for dismissing him in […]
Toward the end of James Baldwin’s story “Sonny’s Blues,” the narrator, Sonny’s brother, visits the jazz club where Sonny is playing. Through much of the story, the narrator struggles with his brother Sonny’s deep passion for jazz and has difficulty […]
What is Ameripolitan? The Ameripolitan Awards Weekender website‘s list of nominees for the 2023 honors ends with a note defining the term as “a word that represents the different heritage of roots music that inform the artists that you […]
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