Leon Redbone, who died Thursday at an age he always declined to specify, wasn’t a hitmaker, but he did make quite an impression. His head and heart were firmly in yesteryear, and he wove songs with roots in the first […]
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The 2019 nominees for the Americana Honors & Awards were announced today, with a strong female flavor in most categories (none for Instrumentalist of the Year to follow up Molly Tuttle’s win last year, though, cough cough). Also notably, Dave […]
For his last two albums, folk singer-songwriter Tim Easton created crowdfunding campaigns on PledgeMusic that helped him connect with fans and get his projects made the way he wanted them made — independently. So when it came time for his […]
Maybelle Carter was born 110 years ago today, and though she died in 1978, her legacy is alive and strong among guitar players, songwriters, and music lovers. Cathy Fink falls into all three of those categories and recently wrote a […]
Leylines, the brand new album from ND’s May Spotlight band, Rising Appalachia, is filled with songs about connections. (The album title itself refers to a belief in lines of spiritual energy that connect places around the world.) Here’s the duo, […]
Even as the spotlight has shone brightly on The Avett Brothers’ music for the past two decades, Scott Avett has been making another kind of art all the while. His visual art — paintings and prints that explore his own […]
Every artist has a favorite standard, a touchstone they come back to when they’re warming up, playing with new friends, or just having fun. Sometimes that song is what inspired them to start down a musical path in the first […]
A while back, we asked a bunch of roots musicians to tell us about their favorite standards, in conjunction with the theme of our current print journal, Standards & Stanzas. Molly Tuttle, this month’s Spotlight artist, chimed in with this: […]
The very first song on Molly Tuttle’s new album, When You’re Ready, her full-length debut, is “Million Miles,” which was a collaborative effort right from the start. Here’s how it came to be, in Tuttle’s own words: My friend Steve […]
Every artist has a favorite standard, a touchstone they come back to when they’re warming up, playing with new friends, or just having fun. Sometimes that song is what inspired them to start down a musical path in the first […]
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