While on the Cayamo roots-music cruise Buddy Miller mentioned several times a collaboration with Dr. Ralph Stanley that had been produced in his home studio in Nashville was being released the Tuesday while we were…
2014 was another bumper crop year for Americana and roots music. We shared our favorites and you weighed in with more. 2015 shows no signs of easing up as stalwarts like Steve Earle and James…
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Science tried something new to announce the nomineews for the 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards. The nomniees were announced piecemeal, per catagory, via twitter exclusively starting at 9am. Ths…
On a North Texas night chilled by an early winter snap Merle Haggard and Marty Stuart brought a welcome reprieve by turning up the heat. “I hope you didn’t come looking for some fancy show.…
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There’s nothing fancy about Denmark’s J.Tex & The Volunteers’ video for “This Old Banjo.” Just a blank wall and J.Tex strolling alone (what have you done with The Volunteers?!) against a blank wall and singing.…
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The video for the title song of Toronto singer-songwriter Suzanne Jarvie’s debut album, “Spiral Road” that blends the song’s blacktop existence and Native-American mysticism with beautiful shots of Arizona and New Mexico landscape. Director Jason…
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Sure Red Molly is an all female folk/newgrass trio. That’s incidental. The more important point is that they are a great folk/newgrass trio. Red Molly – Laurie MacAllister (vocals, guitar, banjo), Abbie Gardner (vocals, guitar,…
Grammy nominations are a few months away but the topic of performers that might be up for an Americana Album of the year nomination – meaning releases between Oct. 1, 2013 and September 30, 2014…
It was fitting that on the eve of AmericanaFest 15 I should run into Rob Bleetstein. Let me explain. Bleetstein is man partially responsible for “Americana” being used as a qualifier for “music.” As editor…
Chicago’s mighty Bloodshot Records has quietly been hoisting the roots rock and alt.country flag for, well as long as those words came into mainstream use. Hard to believe that it’s been 20 years since the…