Grant Britt

For the last two decades, Eli “Paperboy” Reed has been screamin' like a lost soul trying to find his way home. The Brookline, Massachusetts, native started vocalizing like a '60s soul demon after moving to Clarksdale, Mississippi, shortly after his high school graduation, honing his craft in the

Ghalia Volt doesn't need any help getting her oomph on. For her latest, Shout Sister Shout!, she comes out roarin' and stompin'. The Belgian busker honed her craft on the streets of Brussels before coming to New Orleans, hooking up with locals Mama's Boys

In 1969, Lee Oskar went to war. But this one was not an armed conflict, but rather a war using words and music as ammunition against a system that fed young men into a shredder for political gains and ignored the basic rights of others. Former Animals lead singer Eric

Willie Nelson is on the road again. But this time the road goes backwards to the roots music that influenced him. He's labeled it simply Bluegrass, but with Willie, nothing is that simple. You can stick banjos and dobros and fiddles in it, but it still comes out

Black Keys guitarist-vocalist Dan Auerbach is a blues curator. But unlike collectors and disseminators of obscure folk and blues like the Lomaxes, who recorded artists in their native habitats, Auerbach summoned his finds to Nashville to record with him for Tell Everybody: 21st Century Juke Joint Blues From Easy Eye

After traipsing all over the countryside hanging around out-of-the-way juke joints and knocking on doors trying to run down obscure local or regional performers and record them, most field recording collectors want to share their findings with the general public. The father-son team of John and Alan Lomax, who scoured