BONUS TRACKS: Silkroad's "American Railroad" Tour Set to Hop on the Mainline
Silkroad Ensemble has announced this week that it will be taking its new program "American Railroad" to ten cities this fall on a sort of whistle-stop tour (figuratively speaking), packed to boxcar ceiling with train songs. Granted, the ensemble won't actually be on a train.
ALBUM REVIEW: With 'Waiting for a Sign,' Hataali Paints the Sunset of America
If Sleater-Kinney and David Bowie wrote a song in the Arizona desert, the result might sound like Hataałii’s “Something’s in the Air.”
“Hand in hand should see it through / Oh, I got some news for you,” Hataałii sings over the track’s propulsive pep. “Sometimes life ain’
THE READING ROOM: New Greenwich Village Book Spotlights 1950s-'00s
Walk along most streets in Greenwich Village these days, and you’re more likely to see banks, high-end clothing shops, and upscale restaurants than small clubs full of folk singers or jazz musicians. In the late 1950s through the late 1980s, though, the scene would have looked and sounded
ALBUM REVIEW: Willie Watson Has New Tricks Up His Sleeve
Willie Watson has always operated on the periphery. Even in the making of his own story. First, he was harmonizing on early versions of “Wagon Wheel” in high school, as a founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show. After he left the band in 2011, he drifted into various projects
Joshua Ray Walker Launches GoFundMe for Cancer Treatment
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
THROUGH THE LENS: Bumbershoot & Appaloosa Festivals Revel in Roots Once Again
This week's column focuses on two festivals, Bumbershoot and Appaloosa Music Festival. While at opposite ends of the country, both are held on Labor Day weekend.
Appaloosa is hosted by the band Scythian, which formed in 2002 after brothers Alexander and Danylo Fedoryka left Catholic seminary. The fest