Your Front Row Seat To Americana Music
“It’s always nice to play in the southeast,” says David Rawlings as he watches the snow fall outside of his east Nashville home and prepares to go on tour in support of his latest album, Poor David’s Almanack. “There are a lot of people here who connect with the same music we connect with,” he... Continue Reading →
Brushwood Songs & Stories - Norman Blake Brushwood Songs & Stories, out today via Plectrafone Records, highlights the celebrated and six decade-long career of prolific songwriter and master of all things stringed, Norman Blake, who has indicated that this may be his last recording. Blake was old-time before old-time was cool, and you need this album in... Continue Reading →
It's time to get your tickets for the 30th year of MerleFest, and this year's lineup is the business. First, some history: MerleFest, named to honor the memory of Doc Watson's late son, Eddy Merle Watson, was hosted by the legendary Doc Watson himself prior to his death. The gathering happens on the last weekend... Continue Reading →
Southeastern Utah-based 3hattrio, makers of “American desert music”, is comprised of Hal Cannon (co-founder of the Deseret String Band, founder of the Western Folklife Center, and the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering), Greg Istock (painter, producer, and scholar of experimental jazz and Carribean music), and Eli Wrankle (music student at Southern Utah University). Their music is born... Continue Reading →
Born and raised in Montreal, Kaia Kater grew up surrounded by folk music, “My mother was a folk festival director. The apple doesn’t fall that far from the tree,” she says with a laugh. “My grandfather, a talented and wild spirit, is a luthier. The dean of his university didn’t really know what to do... Continue Reading →
Bluesy roots music revivalist Charlie Parr can play anything with strings like it ain’t nobody’s business, holler and howl like a Mississippi Delta blues originator, and looks like one of my family members who grew up in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Interestingly enough, Parr actually hails from the Land of 10,000 Lakes (for those... Continue Reading →