While summertime for music fans has always meant festival time, this year has seen a significant increase the number of such events. Beginning with this column I will feature five festivals in four weeks. This week Larry John Fowler reports […]
The Waterfront Blues Festival bills itself as “the largest celebration of blues, soul, funk, and rhythm & blues west of the Mississippi.” Even a cursory review of the lineup makes that statement difficult to dispute. The fest, held in downtown Portland, […]
“This is the beginning and end of our world tour.” — Buddy Miller Julie Miller had not performed in public for 15-plus years before this show — a show that sold out within hours of being announced. Rolling Stone said […]
It was billed as “Cash & Cooder on Cash: The Songs of Johnny Cash.” A short five-city tour, two now, the other three in this fall. I caught the first one at Ryman Auditorium, and fellow ND writer Henry Carrigan […]
Have you ever wondered how a music collaboration works? What it sounds like? What it looks like? In this week’s column, our Scottish correspondent and my number one AmericanaFest partner-in-crime Carol Graham takes an in-depth look at just that. She […]
The Nelsonville Music Festival in Southeast Ohio was “discovered” a couple years ago, not just by the public, but also by the media — the number of outlets covering it has doubled during that time. To celebrate 15 years of […]
One of the reasons I began this musical journey many years ago, many publications ago, is to highlight some music that might otherwise get overlooked, lost in the shuffle. Save for the monster of an album that leads off this column, the […]
This week I cover an underserved branch of roots music: rockabilly. Specifically, Nashville Boogie, a festival held in Nashville every Memorial Day weekend. As if the music is not enough, it identifies itself as “a celebration of midcentury American music, […]
The morning the Americana Honors & Awards nominations were announced I was reading Manohla Dargis’ piece in The New York Times on Agnès Varda, the influential film director who had just passed away. Varda, who directed some of the most […]
The Through the Lens column has featured artists on the verge as selected by ND photographers twice before, and as the last was about a year and a half ago, it’s high time I did it again. The thesis being that since ND photographers […]
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