Celebrating 110 Years of Maybelle Carter
Maybelle Carter was born 110 years ago today, and though she died in 1978, her legacy is alive and strong among guitar players, songwriters, and music lovers. Cathy Fink falls into all three of those categories and recently wrote a song in tribute to Maybelle Carter. Here’s the song,
On Lighthearted ‘My Tiny Twilight,’ Dawn Landes Delights Kids and Grown-ups Alike
Dawn Landes’ My Tiny Twilight EP bloomed out of the “exhaustion, bewilderment, and pure love” that followed the birth of her daughter. This collection of six folk songs — the follow-up to the Nashville-based singer/songwriter’s 2018 LP Meet Me at the River — is playful and kid-friendly, but its lighthearted
SPOTLIGHT VIDEO: Rising Appalachia Song Urges Us to ‘Harmonize’
Leylines, the brand new album from ND’s May Spotlight band, Rising Appalachia, is filled with songs about connections. (The album title itself refers to a belief in lines of spiritual energy that connect places around the world.) Here’s the duo, sisters Leah and Chloe Smith, on one such
ELECTRIFY MY SOUL: ‘Old Town Road’ and the Problem of Genre
A couple of weeks ago during a long ride in the tour van, my bandmate Mali looked up from her phone to ask the van at large if we’d heard of a song called “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X. I excitedly replied “Yes, I am obsessed.” Unbeknownst
Museum Exhibition Puts Scott Avett’s Visual Art in the Spotlight
Even as the spotlight has shone brightly on The Avett Brothers’ music for the past two decades, Scott Avett has been making another kind of art all the while. His visual art — paintings and prints that explore his own busy mind, often at a gigantic scale — is getting its first
SPOTLIGHT: Rising Appalachia Channels Global Perspective in Music and Causes
Rising Appalachia, the sister duo of Leah and Chloe Smith, are not only artists, they’re translators. They embrace this role on their new album Leylines, translating their Southern upbringing and vast travel experiences into a collection of insightful original songs alongside covers of traditional folk masterpieces.
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