On Feb. 13, 2019, The New York Times published an article titled “Ryan Adams Dangled Success. Women Say They Paid a Price.” It began with a three-paragraph overview of the then-44-year-old artist’s 20-year career, citing his 16 albums, seven Grammy […]
What makes a great song? The lyrics? The music? Surely, of course, it’s some combination of the two. We sometimes call a song “timeless” because the lyrics express some universal sentiment, and sometimes the “timelessness” of a song, for us, […]
This month, I’ve been working on learning and unlearning, and trying to be a better ally in the fight for racial justice. Somewhere in that process, it came to my attention that my voice is not the one that needs […]
This weekend (June 27 and 28), California’s Bluegrass Pride will celebrate Pride Month, and the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, by presenting Porch Pride: A Bluegrass Pride Queer-antine Festival. Headlined by Amythyst Kiah and Molly Tuttle, the festival will […]
Two things initially drew me to direct-to-fan sites of the early days of the internet and eventually to crowdfunding. The first was the sense of community with the artists I loved. With no label between you and them, artists had […]
Hi there, it’s Ed. Hope this finds you and those in your life healthy and safe, wherever you may be. I won’t bother asking how y’all are coping, because anyone who has had their livelihoods chopped off at the knees […]
“I’d been singing for years, but almost no one knew about it. In the country, first on the plantation where we lived and worked, then later, after we’d moved to Belzoni but still hired ourselves out during harvest time, I’d […]
Brandi Carlile, Brittany Howard, John Prine, Tanya Tucker, Yola, Our Native Daughters, The Highwomen, Buddy & Julie Miller, Billy Strings, Tyler Childers, Black Pumas, Brittany Haas, and Kelsey Waldon lead a diverse group of artists in the 2020 AmericanaFest nominations. […]
When my dad was born in 1919, music that was performed by black people was released on 78 rpm discs and called “race records.” It was a designation of multiple genres, including blues, jazz, and spirituals. By the time I […]
Over the past few years, a few writers have been down to the crossroads of art and commerce to try to find Robert Johnson, amid especially contentious conversations about the few photographs we have of the legendary bluesman. Last year, […]
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