Hilary Saunders

Bonus Tracks is back with a double dose of roots music news after taking last Friday off for America's 250th birthday. (Through The Lens columnist Amos Perrine's column about roots music in America is required reading on that topic.) After more than a decade, roots-rock-

Sierra Hull, awarded Mandolin Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association seven times, has shared a live video of a work commissioned by the FreshGrass Foundation (No Depression's nonprofit publisher) in 2022, recorded at Studio 9, and released as an EP this April. She and

Lost Art Records announced a tribute album to singer-songwriter, country artist, and poet Blaze Foley, due out August 7. Titled Sittin’ with Blaze, the 13-track LP features some hard-hitting covers by artists like Lucy Dacus, Dylan Earl, John R. Miller, John Moreland, Joshua Ray Walker, Willie Watson,