Since leaving the Carolina Chocolate Drops last year, founding member Dom Flemons has been busy. He’s been touring around, opening for Reverend Payton’s Big Damn Band and others, released a workshop video on How to Play the Quills, has been […]
by Devon Léger SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – The image of the anarchist has traditionally been an image of menace. Whether a black-clad, masked, bomb-throwing terrorist in the early 20th century, or a black-clad, masked, molotov-cocktail throwing rioter in the early […]
In December, Hearth Music celebrated Roger Miller’s birthday with one hell of a tribute at the Columbia City Theater in Seattle. The Roger Miller Tribute Night was a huge success, with a packed house, 14 of Seattle’s finest musical acts […]
William Josh Beck – The Ballad Of Jack O’Hanley 25th April 2012 Live @ Radio L’Echo du Oan’s – Canal B Video by Sylvain Texier Fire Lady EP available on http://williamjoshbeck.bandcamp.com/
Folk singer Elizabeth Mitchell is arguably the flagship artist for revered record label Smithsonian Folkways (along with Ella Jenkins). Her ability to breathe new life into old traditions, and her thoughtful, subtle music-craft make her not only one of the […]
We helped Portland songwriter Ashleigh Flynn to get out her latest album, A Million Stars, after falling in love with her songs that rewrote the standard Wild West narrative from a feminine perspective. Knowing that she identified as gay, I […]
Hearth Note: The Shiftless Rounders came on to the scene back when MySpace was all the rage, and they had a remarkably compelling byline that excited my youthful imagination: “If Kurt Cobain had been from West Virginia….” And then I […]
I’ve always known Laura Cortese as a fiddler first and foremost, and though of course she’s a wonderful singer and also a powerful and insightful songwriter, it took until her new solo album, Into the Dark, for me to realize […]
Brian Vollmer – Old Time Music Party 2013. Patuxent Records. The title says it all here, really. Young East Coast fiddler/banjo player Brian Vollmer just picks the hell out of a bunch of great Southern old-time tunes. Honestly, was there […]
The albums are piling up here at Hearth Music HQ, so it’s time to do a rundown of some of the great American roots music coming out recently. Check out some of our favorites and read more about each release. […]
