THROUGH THE LENS: Healing Appalachia and White Rose Music Fests Ring In Fall
This week the column is staying in Appalachia for two recently founded roots music festivals: Healing Appalachia in Lewisburg, West Virginia, and the White Rose Music Fest in York, Pennsylvania. Despite having different origins, the fests shared a couple artists in their lineups, and both bring a great sense of
Seth Avett Honors His Musical Hero With ‘Seth Avett Sings Greg Brown’
Most teenagers don’t take kindly to musical suggestions from their dad, but when Seth Avett’s father suggested he listen to a song by Greg Brown he’d recently heard on public radio’s Prairie Home Companion, Avett paid attention.
The song was “Boomtown,” a scorching social commentary about
Vote, Take Action, Sing Loudly Together
EDITOR’S NOTE: Singer-songwriter Tift Merritt is producing and hosting Sing Out NC, an election-time concert outside Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, North Carolina, on Nov. 6 advocating for reproductive rights and featuring local artists including Alice Gerrard, Rissi Palmer, H.C. McEntire, Mipso’s Libby Rodenbough, and
ALBUM REVIEW: Emily Nenni Gets Hands Dirty for Songs That Ring True
If you live in a big city and spend most of your day staring at a computer, you likely harbor the dream of moving to the country, someplace where the pace is a bit slower and you can finally hear yourself think. You could even work with your hands and
THE READING ROOM: Bob Dylan Reveals Little in Musings on ‘Modern Song’
This should be an easy review to write, right? Here beside me is Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song (Simon & Schuster), his long-awaited new book, and the first since the Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.
What is there to say
ALBUM REVIEW: First Aid Kit Leans Heavily Into Pop But Keeps Charisma on ‘Palomino’
With their latest album, Palomino, Johanna and Klara Söderberg, aka First Aid Kit, again share their irresistible voices and impeccable harmonies. Supporting musicians offer an array of percussion, strings, synths, and textural complements, the project unfurling as the duo’s most pop-adherent and lavishly rendered sequence to date.
Catchy