As Paul Barrere was telling me that his band Little Feat would be playing the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival this year, it’s producer Quint Davis was announcing the
Ari “Dick” Rubin formed MINKA in Philadelphia six years ago, and while his band has gone through several incarnations, the city’s native son has been the one constant, serving as
Flatland Calvary is back and Cleto Cordero’s voice has improved tremendously. It’s as if the lead singer coated his throat with honey before recording Homeland Insecurity, the group’s polished sophomore
When I recently spoke with Anders Beck, he was enjoying some well-deserved downtime after his band Greensky Bluegrass just wrapped another Strings and Sol in Cancun, Mexico. The annual jam-cation
Love Hard Work Hard Play Hard is named for Deanie Richardson’s motto about life. The album shows she clearly believes in bringing love, work, and play into her fiddling too.
Get Your Shit Together. There could not be a more fitting title for a record by Hunt Sales. For the drumming son of comedian Soupy Sales and member of David
Hunter Perrin has done just about everything he can while playing guitar. He’s been based in Texas and Brooklyn, started a handful of bands, worked on soundtracks and toured with
Dylan covers or interpretations as Bettye LaVette prefers to call them, make up an outsized part of the roots music genre. Joan Baez, The Grateful Dead and Flatt & Scruggs
The director of the depression-era epic discusses why he wanted to make the film
Once upon a time a boy in Texas wanted to play guitar. So his grandfather bought him one. The boy started writing songs and singing. But he also developed another
