Founding Member Woody Platt Leaving Steep Canyon Rangers
Western North Carolina-based modern bluegrassers Steep Canyon Rangers announced today that singer, guitarist, and songwriter Woody Platt is leaving the band after 23 years.
The moves comes from a desire to step away from touring and stay closer to home, according to a press release from the band’s label,
Karen Dalton – 'Something On Your Mind' Live at The Montreux Golden Rose Pop Festival, May 1, 1971
The previously unreleased audio from Karen Dalton's rare, captivating performance live at the Montreux Golden Rose Pop Festival on May 1, 1971. This is the first time this audio has been made available in any physical format — presented on 180-gram 12-inch vinyl and featuring a stunning etching of
Liz Beebe’s ‘Songscape’ Pairs Creativity and Conservation [VIDEO]
Last summer, singer-songwriter and Dustbowl Revival alum Liz Beebe spent a few days on the Green River, floating and paddling her way from just below Flaming Gorge Dam in Utah to Echo Park in Colorado.
She wasn’t alone. Accompanying her was a creative team from Sustain Music & Nature
ALBUM REVIEW: Michelle Malone Connects With Simple Beauties and Complex Realities on ‘1977’
Michelle Malone’s songs unfold cinematically. Every flourish of her guitar captures a moment of human vulnerability, and her warm, inviting vocals tell stories of the exquisite intimacy of our daily lives, whether we’re picking eggs from under our hens, living with heartbreak and loss, trying to find ourselves,
ALBUM REVIEW: Music for All Occasions on Gaby Moreno’s ‘Alegoría’
Whenever “cinematic” is used to describe a piece of music, more often than not it’s because of the dramatic tenor of a string section. Alegoría, Gaby Moreno’s latest album, her seventh, has a cinematic quality to it, but not because of the instrumentation. Alegoría is cinematic because of
JOURNAL EXCERPT: Inside the Making of Wilco’s 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'
EDITOR’S NOTE: As Wilco's milestone album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot celebrates its 20th anniversary this week, we wanted to share this excerpt from a story in our Fall-Winter 2018 journal, “Innovate.” You can read the whole story and check out exclusive images — and so much more — in that