As part of its live programming marking Black History Month, the Grand Ole Opry aired video last weekend of an apology it formally issued last August to harmonica player and early Opry performer DeFord Bailey for dismissing him in […]
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Toward the end of James Baldwin’s story “Sonny’s Blues,” the narrator, Sonny’s brother, visits the jazz club where Sonny is playing. Through much of the story, the narrator struggles with his brother Sonny’s deep passion for jazz and has difficulty […]
What is Ameripolitan? The Ameripolitan Awards Weekender website‘s list of nominees for the 2023 honors ends with a note defining the term as “a word that represents the different heritage of roots music that inform the artists that you […]
A while back I attended a Todd Snider and Chicago Farmer concert, and during one of Snider’s famous “as much as 16 minutes between the songs” monologues, he noted that the music he and Chicago Farmer make is now […]
If you like to start off the Super Bowl with a good cry (and who doesn’t?), Chris Stapleton’s soulful, stripped-down rendition of the National Anthem delivered. It elicited tears from Eagles coach Nick Sirianni as well as lineman Jason […]
If you want to know what musicians talk about at parties, it’s not usually their favorite lyrics or chord progressions (although sometimes that does happen). It’s not usually about favorite venues or guitar pedals (OK, that does happen a […]
The annual conference of music organization Folk Alliance International (FAI) is the world’s largest gathering of the folk music community. Folk music crosses a diverse array of roots music, including Appalachian, Americana, blues, bluegrass, Celtic, Cajun, global roots, old-time, […]
NPR Music has opened its submission window for its annual Tiny Desk Contest, in which unsigned artists and bands of any genre can submit video of themselves performing an original song in some way that involves a desk. The […]
As longtime music journalist Caryn Rose points out in the preface to her little gem of a book, Why Patti Smith Matters (Texas), the list of Smith’s contributions to art, photography, poetry, and rock and roll is so extensive that […]
During 2022, Mountain Stage presented 24 shows, six of which were away from its home in Charleston, West Virginia, including Boston and its first visit to Kansas. On those 24 shows, Mountain Stage presented 117 roots performers, 11 of […]
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