Grant Britt

Once upon a time in Raleigh, North Carolina, for about 10 bucks total, you could get the best sandwich in town and a dose of red-hot rockin’ honky-tonk courtesy of Kenny Roby. Like a punky John Prine, Roby rocked the joint with folky country-flavored yee-haw music with an alt label

Ben Harper is a master of trickeration. That's the term gospel icons The Dixie Hummingbirds used to describe what their lead singer Ira Tucker did: in-your-face showmanship that soul men lifted right out of church, the gospel aspects of the music trying to bust out and leap across

From the title of his debut album, Who Is He?, you might assume that Dylan Triplett might be having an identity crisis. But nothing could be further from the truth. Triplett is a 21-year-old from St. Louis who just sings his ass off on this very impressive debut on the

“Bluegrass will not let me leave,” Peter Rowan insists. But that doesn't mean he’ll be confined by any boundaries that fans, critics, or artists may put on the genre. Rowan has impeccable bluegrass cred, having been a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys as

Charlie Musselwhite must have access to some magic formula unavailable to the rest of us mere mortals. His music is timeless, his voice virtually unchanged since he started putting out music six decades ago. He's toured and recorded with a stellar array of artists as diverse as Hot

Xavier Dphrepaulezz has tried on a closet full of personas. As his alter ego Fantastic Negrito, he has been a shape-shifting shaman sewn up in the skin of a preacher, funkateer, soothsayer, bluesman, poet, roots doctor, rocker, and prognosticator. Now you can add revolutionary archivist to his list of inhabited