Uncle Lucius ain’t some avuncular relative who sits in the corner rocking and puffing on his pipe while he bounces the grandkids on his knee. This bunch of Austin thumpers and twangers had the scene tore up in those parts […]
Uncle Lucius ain’t some avuncular relative who sits in the corner rocking and puffing on his pipe while he bounces the grandkids on his knee. This bunch of Austin thumpers and twangers had the scene tore up in those parts […]
It’s been a while since Kenny Wayne Shepherd was a child prodigy. In 1995, at age 18, Shepherd’s debut, Ledbetter Heights, sold half a million copies, and the follow-up, 1997’s Trouble Is …, earned him a Grammy nod. Now 46, […]
North Mississippi Allstars frontman Luther Dickinson isn’t climbing any rural hills on his latest outing, Magic Music for Family Folk. It’s billed as a kids album, but the content here is for children of all ages. It’s a real family […]
For the last two decades, Eli “Paperboy” Reed has been screamin’ like a lost soul trying to find his way home. The Brookline, Massachusetts, native started vocalizing like a ’60s soul demon after moving to Clarksdale, Mississippi, shortly after his […]
Ghalia Volt doesn’t need any help getting her oomph on. For her latest, Shout Sister Shout!, she comes out roarin’ and stompin’. The Belgian busker honed her craft on the streets of Brussels before coming to New Orleans, hooking up […]
In 1969, Lee Oskar went to war. But this one was not an armed conflict, but rather a war using words and music as ammunition against a system that fed young men into a shredder for political gains and ignored […]
Willie Nelson is on the road again. But this time the road goes backwards to the roots music that influenced him. He’s labeled it simply Bluegrass, but with Willie, nothing is that simple. You can stick banjos and dobros and […]
Black Keys guitarist-vocalist Dan Auerbach is a blues curator. But unlike collectors and disseminators of obscure folk and blues like the Lomaxes, who recorded artists in their native habitats, Auerbach summoned his finds to Nashville to record with him for […]
After traipsing all over the countryside hanging around out-of-the-way juke joints and knocking on doors trying to run down obscure local or regional performers and record them, most field recording collectors want to share their findings with the general public. […]
Having the blues is a universal situation. But expressing it seems to require a regional hub. Although it didn’t originate there, Chicago was the place to be for serious blues practitioners in the early 1950s. The music came from […]
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