One does not merely attend a performance by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Rather, it’s akin to a seance, which draws you in and you become privy to a creative dialogue that seems to transcend time and space. The evening, […]
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When reviewing the most recent photos taken by the ND photographers, I noticed that a significant number of the artists come from the many branches of country music. Five years ago, this column ran a story profiling eight artists titled […]
Texas historian Joe Nick Patoski sums up the experience of attending one of Willie Nelson’s annual picnics as “living inside a Willie Nelson song every Fourth of July.” As Patoski writes in his foreword to journalist Dave Dalton Thomas’ Picnic: […]
By Peter Blackstock As we approach the end of the year, there’s no particular rhyme or reason to these six selections — just a bunch of records I’ve been digging lately, and perhaps you might as well. Keep on rockin’ […]
“Everybody’s got roots” as the saying goes, and that’s especially true for roots music. While much of the press is focused on American roots music, artists from all over the globe are producing quality music, either in the style […]
This week’s column is the last one this year devoted to roots music festival coverage. It features two Moon Crush fests at Miramar Beach, Florida: Moon Crush: Cowboy Moon (November 1-3, 2024), and Moon Crush: An Avett Moon (November […]
Last Friday evening in Saint Anne’s Church on opening night of the Brooklyn Folk Festival, Latin American ensemble Guachinangos played their energetic blend of Mexican son jarocho and Colombian cumbia music to an audience seemingly unable to sit down […]
This week’s column features two events in different and scenic locales: the Dreamy Draw Music Festival (November 1 & 2, 2024) in Scottsdale, Arizona in the beautiful Sonoran Desert at the foot of the McDowell Mountains; and the Appalachian Allies […]
In spite of it all, music happened this week. I dug deep into my vinyl collection this week and listened to Rage Against The Machine’s debut and IDLES’ 2018 LP titled Joy As An Act of Resistance. I listened […]
In 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival celebrated the lives and music of a group of fictional street singers Willy and the Poor Boys in their hit song “Down on the Corner.” As the four boys gather on the corner near […]
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