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 […]
It’s comfortable in a family band. You’re onstage with people you’ve known all your life, who support you without question and look after you off stage as well. The music is ingrained in your head, in your heart, in your […]
After living on the road for about a year in 2014, Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish, The Honey Dewdrops, were ready to get out of the van and establish a home base. Both from Virginia originally, they’d been living in […]
Rockabilly royalty Wanda Jackson, 81, has announced that she’s retiring from performing. Here is the statement, in part, posted on her Facebook page Tuesday afternoon: After over 60 years of touring, Wanda Jackson wishes to announce her retirement from performing. […]
What a delight to learn today that Buddy and Julie Miller are together again, musically, with a new album coming in June, as first reported by NPR’s All Songs Considered. The married duo’s personal chemistry and one-of-a-kind harmonies were well […]
Dick Dale, the undisputed King of the Surf Guitar, died Saturday at the age of 81 after years of illness. He was born Richard Monsour in Boston to a mother with Eastern European roots and a Lebanese father who exposed […]
Like any good folk musicians, Kagey Parrish and Laura Wortman of The Honey Dewdrops are keen observers of the world around them. While their songs tend toward a timelessness that is broader than current political issues, their latest album, this […]
When Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish sing together, it sounds timeless. But there was a time — their first three years, in fact — when The Honey Dewdrops existed without those signature intertwining vocals. In their early years as a […]
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