Watermelon Slim Plays Blues Shaped by Life as a ‘Traveling Man’
Bill Homans looks as rugged as the blues he plays. As his alter ego, Watermelon Slim, Homans honed his rough-and-tumble, bare-bones blues style bouncing around the country in a variety of blue-collar jobs . A Vietnam vet, he recorded an anti-war protest album, Merry Airbrakes, in 1973, learning to play slide
Béla Fleck and Toumani Diabaté Build Bridges with Banjo and Kora on ‘The Ripple Effect’
Music, definitely at its best and sometimes at its worst, brings people together. It’s an agent of good in the world, a way to bring together performer and listener, musicians with other musicians, and cultures with other cultures. It takes a big, big world and makes it a little
Clem Snide Grows into New Phase of Life and Music on ‘Forever Just Beyond’
I hope you’ve already seen The Good Place, because there’s a potential spoiler below.
Near the end of the show’s final season, William Jackson Harper’s character, Chidi, and Kristen Bell’s Eleanor are discussing mortality, and Chidi shares a Buddhist conception of death that compares a
‘From Liberty Street’ to Your Street, Mapache Delivers the Feel of Togetherness
Have you seen the news lately? Things are looking pretty bleak out there, what with the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout. Concerts and other mass-attended events are being cancelled, folks are being encouraged to stay home and avoid public spaces — it’s more than a little overwhelming and terrifying.
But
Coronavirus Crisis: How to Help Roots Music Artists
Dave Simonett is Feeling Fine and Sharing the Love on ‘Red Tail’
Dave Simonett, frontman and songwriter for Trampled by Turtles, found a type of therapy in his solo project Dead Man Winter, particularly in the 2017 release of Furnace. Following the end of his 10-year marriage, Simonett opened himself up like never before, pouring his heart and soul out on record