Amigo the Devil Journeys Through the Darkness on 'Born Against'
At the end of his new record, Born Against, Amigo the Devil — also known as songwriter and musician Danny Kiranos — sings, "When the darkness of the tunnel is the last place I go, you're the closest thing to heaven I'll ever need." The lyrics
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