10 Roots Music Recommendations for Your Record Store Day 2024 Black Friday Shopping List
Black Friday comes late this year, it’s not until Nov. 29! But as you plan your shopping lists, remember the little guys - independent record stores. Through the folks at Record Store Day, participating record stores offer many great releases this year.
Remember, not every store will have every release,
No Depression Sessions at AMERICANAFEST 2024: Bronwyn Keith-Hynes
Charlottesville native fiddler Bronwyn Keith-Hynes joined us at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge for her No Depression Session at AMERICANAFEST '24, to share four songs from her debut vocal album I Built A World, which just earned her a 2025 GRAMMY nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
THE READING ROOM: Dave Dalton Thomas’ 'Picnic: Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Tradition'
Texas historian Joe Nick Patoski sums up the experience of attending one of Willie Nelson’s annual picnics as “living inside a Willie Nelson song every Fourth of July.” As Patoski writes in his foreword to journalist Dave Dalton Thomas’ Picnic: Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Tradition (Texas A&
FOUNDERS KEEPERS: Keep On Rockin’ in the Free World
By Peter Blackstock
As we approach the end of the year, there’s no particular rhyme or reason to these six selections — just a bunch of records I’ve been digging lately, and perhaps you might as well. Keep on rockin’ in the free world, while we still can.
Don
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Album fundraising campaigns from England, Scotland, and Germany
“Everybody's got roots” as the saying goes, and that's especially true for roots music. While much of the press is focused on American roots music, artists from all over the globe are producing quality music, either in the style of American roots music, or exploring the
ALBUM REVIEW: On 'Saratoga' Eddie 9V Finds His Soul Groove
Soulman Eddie 9V must have lived many past lives before this one. Otherwise, there's no way Brooks Mason's alter ego could have built up as much soul in such a short time. The voices that speak through him belong to O.V. Wright, James Carr, Al