The Plum Hollow Farm Experience
Family. That's something you hear a lot down in Plum Hollow. Located in Campobello, Plum Hollow was the home of Barney and Debbie Barnwell. What began as a simple gathering of friends and family in the woods became the site of possibly the most exhilarating bluegrass festival in
The Barnes Blues Band – Veterans at Work at The Bulls Head
Few people who read this will have heard of The Barnes Blues Band, and fewer still are likely to see them play. But they are worth attention for two reasons.
First, they are really good. If you like your electric blues, this is it. Second, though, is what they represent:
Hi-Fi Infidelity: "Me and Mrs. Jones"
The door swings open as we pass the café. The A/C is turned up all the way, and we are embraced by a coolly seductive rush of air. We catch an irresistible cosmopolitan groove from the jukebox and can no longer stand out in the heat. We duck in,
The Gospel According to Peter May
There's an old rugged wooden cross standing in a weed strewn field. A battered resonator guitar with kudzu entwined round the neck leans against it. That stark image is the outside introduction to Winston-Salem, N.C. singer/guitarist Peter May's latest release, Blues and Gospel.
Reviving the Music of 1930s Appalachia
In the late 1930s, as those living on the land that became the Great Smoky Mountains National Park were leaving (some voluntarily, some forcibly) their homesteads, farms, mines and logging camps, folklorist Joseph Hall collected field recordings of their dialectical speech and music. Selections from those aluminum platters and acetate
Frazey Ford on Neil Young, D'Angelo, and More
Frazey Ford sees her two solo albums after departing from the Be Good Tanyas as very different works. The singer-songwriter, who had been one-third of the Vancouver, BC-based folk, country, and blues group, released her first solo album, Obadiah, in 2010 and followed with Indian Ocean four