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 […]
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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 […]
While New Orleans was preparing for the 50th anniversary of its Jazz & Heritage Festival, Australia’s leading roots music fest celebrated its own major landmark. A humble but daring experiment took place in Australia, near Byron Bay (about two hours south […]
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on. — Arab proverb I have thinking a lot about tradition lately. And memory. What leads us to a certain point in time? What do we remember? What of Bill Monroe? What is […]
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