The Brother Brothers Move Through Songs and Seasons on ‘Calla Lily’
Calla Lily, the sophomore album from The Brother Brothers, opens with a song that expresses what is undoubtedly a shared sentiment amongst musicians at this point. “On the Road Again” captures that unmistakable itch to get back to touring life, to some kind of norm. Though it was written before
THE READING ROOM: Get to Know Zilphia Horton, An Activist Who Used Music to Make ‘A Singing Army’
Over Labor Day weekend in 1941, photographer Edward Weston and his wife, Charis, the sister of Highlander Folk School’s librarian, Leon Wilson, stopped at the school for a visit. Weston was traveling across the country taking photographs to accompany a special edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
Sarah Jarosz Announces ‘Blue Heron Suite,’ Recording of a FreshGrass Commission Honoring Her Mother
If you live anywhere near water, chances are you’ve seen one: a great blue heron flying low against the sky, silent as it soars along a straight line toward its destination.
Sarah Jarosz has seen them too — so often, and at so many important moments in her life, that
THROUGH THE LENS: Praise the Fiddle
Fiddlers don’t fret. — Leanna Price, The Price Sisters
And fiddlers don't fret over the differences between a fiddle and a violin either. Other than sometimes a half centimeter difference in the instrument’s bridge, they're the same instrument. It’s amazing that the question is
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi Hit Home with Intimate Recordings
Recorded during the lockdown at a rural studio near Dublin, Ireland, where Rhiannon Giddens and her partner, Francesco Turrisi, have been riding out the pandemic, They’re Calling Me Home is, without reservation, her finest work to date. Intimately recorded and emotionally accessible, it is a near perfect album in
THE READING ROOM: Brandi Carlile Lets Her Story Run Free in Warm, Honest ‘Broken Horses’
Brandi Carlile knows how to captivate; she invites us into her songs with her ability to evoke feelings of isolation and loss, forgiveness and hope, love and joy. Carlile entrances us with her stories of people just like us, facing the same challenges and losses, the same comforts and victories,