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Kara Kundert

50 STATES OF FOLK: Carry Me Back to Old Virginia

50 STATES OF FOLK: Carry Me Back to Old Virginia

We’ve all heard of The Carter Family — the first family of country music. (Or maybe you’re new to roots music and haven’t heard of them yet. That’s okay too! Welcome to the party, we’re happy you’re here). They brought us such country stalwarts as

50 STATES OF FOLK: The Great Bluegrass State of California

50 STATES OF FOLK: The Great Bluegrass State of California

Unless you live here, and honestly even if you do, California probably isn’t the first place that comes to mind when you think about bluegrass. Kentucky would be a more likely candidate; they’re so confident in their claim to the throne that they made it the official state

50 STATES OF FOLK: How Hawaii Created the Modern Country Sound

50 STATES OF FOLK: How Hawaii Created the Modern Country Sound

Turn your radio to a country music station, and you’re likely to hear the lilting sounds of a pedal steel. It’s a sound iconic to the genre, so ubiquitous that it’s probably permeated your idea of what country music is without a second thought. But what you

A Revival of our Own: Why We Just Can't Quit the Man of Constant Sorrow

A Revival of our Own: Why We Just Can't Quit the Man of Constant Sorrow

Look around you, and you’ll find the world is changing faster than you can blink. Everything from politics to technology to the weather, even, is evolving and metastasizing in a way we’ve never seen before. Those of us in the millennial generation grew up being thrashed by the