Kim Ruehl

As AMERICANAFEST 2024 jets into full blast in Nashville, Tennessee, the Americana Music Association gathered its members and fans at the Ryman Auditorium last night to hand out its annual honors and awards. Hosted by long-time favorites Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan (better known as The Milk Carton Kids)

News broke this morning about the next big roots music name to make an appearance in the Broadway production of Hadestown. Singer-songwriter Allison Russell will reportedly enter the role of Persephone beginning November 12. The role has played host to a string of beloved singer-songwriters over the past

Over the last couple of years, we've been checking in with singer-songwriter Joshua Ray Walker, whose 2023 release, What Is It, Even? saw him diving into the Deep End with former ND Assistant Editor Stacy Chandler. In her write-up, our colleague called Walker's work

EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt of a story from our Summer 2021 journal issue, exploring the theme of “Voices.” We share it today in honor of Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, who passed away this week at the age of 81. Reagon is featured in this piece written by

As singer-songwriters who began their careers in the 1960s go, Joni Mitchell is one of the more mythologized. Numerous books have been published about her, granted, but they typically follow the traditional biography route, as though examining and re-examining the same set of stories about her boyfriends and