It’s the time when journalists of all stripes look back at the year that was. You can find lists of best albums, best concerts, best television shows, best movies, and best celebrity hairstyle if you are so inclined. I […]
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In my last column, I looked at three artists who were using very different methods of crowdfunding during the pandemic. As I researched one of those, the pay-per-view “tour” by Over the Rhine, I found a number of other artists […]
The old, and unsourced, saying goes “necessity is the mother of invention” (as opposed to Frank Zappa, who is definitively sourced as inventor of the Mothers of Invention). That’s certainly been the case this year as artists scramble to […]
The Carter Family. The Louvin Brothers. Bill Monroe. Those are among the artists you hear most mentioned when you talk about “roots music.” But as newer generations of artists come along, the definition, and the breadth, of roots music has […]
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks. In a normal year, that wouldn’t be so remarkable, but in 2020, “interesting” is a high bar to clear. For several days after Election Day last week, America had no idea who its […]
Growing up when every true music nerd read the liner notes of an album top to bottom, I noticed that the number of people who were listed as having played on the album was always a lot larger than […]
Some weeks, I intentionally go into this column with a theme in mind. More often, I start throwing projects in my “maybe” folder and a trend emerges. This week, I was deep into listening through my then-unthemed week of […]
After spring and summer in the crowdfunding market was as depressed as the rest of the economy, things have suddenly come roaring back. Rather than scouring sites to find three roots-oriented campaigns, I find myself having to pick between […]
Since I started doing this column, I’ve been looking for a way to devote one to roots-focused projects other than album releases. Music is a very small part of the crowdfunding landscape, both in number of projects and funding. The […]
I can’t think of anything in my lifetime that has fundamentally changed the music business as much as COVID-19 has. Napster would likely be the next most explosive, but even that was nothing like the effective shutdown of the […]
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