Category: Folk Music

Americana | February 12, 2020

The Simple Luminescence Of The Lumineers

It’s funny how something so big can at least start, well, pretty simply. Especially when it involves one of modern music’s most successful and popular current bands, The Lumineers. The […]

Americana | November 29, 2019

Steve Berlin & Los Lobos: Wolves Bond For Life

When Steve Berlin was honing his killer sax chops in his native Philadephia in the 70’s and 80’s, he was ripping it up with bands like Jimmy and the Rhythm […]

Americana | November 5, 2019

The Intense Beauty of Allison Moorer’s ‘Blood’

For many people, words can take on several different meanings. For singer/songwriter Allison Moorer, the word “blood” does just that, and so much more. Yes, she wrote a beautiful song […]

Americana | September 29, 2019

Marc Cohn: It’s Called Respect

Respect. It’s not automatic, it’s not a given, it’s not just handed to you, especially in the music business. You have to earn it, often with alot of hard work, […]

Folk Music | August 18, 2019

Rufus Wainwright: Blessed By Life

“I just stepped out of the ocean to talk to you. I live…a blessed existence.” In many ways, Rufus Wainwright does live a blessed existence. He is a highly regarded […]

Featured | July 21, 2019

Banjo Music Amidst Native Daughters

It’s amazing what can happen when you bond supremely talented like minds, hearts and souls. When the Grammy-winning, intensely thoughtful folk roots wunderkind Rhiannon Giddens was asked by Smithsonian Folkways […]

Americana | May 28, 2019

John McEuen’s Blissful Folk Music Life

It’s been fifty-plus years since John McEuen basically “replaced” Jackson Browne in the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and the NGDB started crafting their indelible folk country rock sound, most famously […]

Featured | May 23, 2019

A.J. Croce: His Own Man

For singer/songwriter AJ Croce, being an up and coming musician and having the name Croce, in addition to looking just like his revered late father, well, that connection didn’t hurt […]

Classic Rock | April 22, 2019

Joan Osborne: Tangled Up In Dylan

(header photo by Jeff Fasano) It’s a somewhat unique phenomenon, that moment when an artist with a voice from heaven like Joan Osborne chooses to roll an entire album of […]

Americana | March 21, 2019

Mary Gauthier’s Unexpected Pleasures

Mary Gauthier has to feel that life is full of the gloriously and humbly unexpected. Twenty-nine years after she stopped drinking cold turkey and twenty-two after she wrote her first […]