The Good Ones Share Their Rwanda With The World
In this hellacious year of our lord, it seems like we mortals are living and reliving humanity’s worst moments on earth with nauseating frequency. Among the already tired political, social, and environmental tropes rotating through an endless news cycle, 2019 also marks 25 years since the Rwandan genocide — a
EASY ED’S BROADSIDE: John Moreland, An Appreciation and Anticipation
In addition to writing this weekly column, I also aggregate flotsam and jetsam from multiple sources that I post throughout each day on a Facebook page as a non-commercial service to share with fans of Americana and roots music. Some people like to collect coins or stamps, follow a sports
SPOTLIGHT: Thirty Years into The Mavericks, ‘We Have a Lot to Do Still’
There’s a certain kind of self-awareness that arises when you’ve worked in the same career for 30 years. For some, it may consist of near-perfect understanding of their particular vocation. For others, it may produce a deeper love for something outside of work. For Raul Malo, frontman and
Robert Hecht Makes Solo Debut as Bobby Hawk
Bobby Hawk’s first solo album Lights On Kinks Out is one of those releases that requires a few listens. After my first run-through, I thought “meh.” The second left me a bit more positive. When I heard it for the third time, I thought “This isn’t half bad”
BLUEGRASS RAMBLES: A Fresh Look at Earl Scruggs and ‘Foggy Mountain Breakdown’
Thomas Goldsmith opens his biographical portrait of Earl Scruggs and his greatest artistic achievement, “Foggy Mountain Breakdown,” by setting the scene in both Scruggs’ early childhood home of Flint Hill, North Carolina, and the Herzog recording studio in Cincinnati, Ohio, where this epic song was first recorded in 1949, creating
Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, Travelin’ Thru Tennessee
The latest installment of Bob Dylan’s official bootleg series, out Nov. 1 on Columbia Records, is a generous grab-bag of four separate moments from the past. Its three discs feature new songs you’ve never heard, new versions of decades-old favorites, and cleaned-up tracks from the long-underground and only