'The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions' Box Set Offers an In-Depth Look at Cuban Roots
Camila Cabello may have opened the 2019 Grammy Awards with her song called “Havana,” but the theatrical performance featuring rapper Young Thug, singers J Balvin and Ricky Martin, and trumpet player Arturo Sandoval barely scratched the surface of the scope of Cuban music.
Sandoval, a Cuban-American trumpet player, pianist and
Dale Watson Continues Down His Own Country Path
Dale Watson is a man with no country. He believes that country music has been so homogenized and transmogrified that he wants nothing to do with it. He's invented his own name for the genre formerly known as classic county — Ameripolitan, which he defines as “original music with
PRINT EXCERPT: Hidden Truths: Unearthing the Stories of the Black Musicians in Bluegrass and Old-Time Music
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SPOTLIGHT: Adia Victoria Blends Poetry and Melody for a Sound All Her Own
Singer, guitarist, and lyricist Adia Victoria’s words and music transcend genre classification and remind us of the variety of artists and mediums in Nashville, a city that’s a limiting label unto its swiftly gentrifying self.
Becoming her own artist began when Victoria was a studious bookworm raised in
Mavis Staples Delivers a Live Album That's Right in Time
Mavis Staples takes the live album seriously. In a nearly 70-year recording career, she’s only released a few, and each one has meaning to it.
Freedom Highway, the 1965 Staple Singers live release, is a vital documentation of the civil rights movement and the Staples family’s role in
Sean McConnell Views Life’s Poignant Questions Through ‘Secondhand Smoke’
There’s a purity that pours through in Sean McConnell’s latest album, Secondhand Smoke, as he calls upon 13 sincere and inspiring songs to explore his definition of the meaning of life and connect it to the world around him.
One of the facets that makes Secondhand Smoke so