The 53rd Annual Philadelphia Folk Festival: A Most Quotable Weekend
Double rainbow, check. Amazing music, double check. My 31st year at the 53rd annual Philadelphia Folk Festival has come and gone, but the memories are lingering on like lyrics and notes across the sweet waves of blue sky and high moon. This was a stellar year on the fields of
Peggy Lipton - The Complete Ode Recordings
Can you be nostalgic for a time and scene you never experienced or were maybe not even alive during? Bandanas and bell bottoms, lava lamps and love beads, cruising down the Pacific Coast Highway in a convertible Aston Martin - these are some of the images brought to mind listening
Country Isn't Country Anymore?
I've noticed recently at bluegrass festivals, we've been hearing bands say something like, “Does anyone want to hear a REAL country song?” Which is always greeted with applause, even cheers. The songs, often covers of George Jones or Hank Williams, but including many other so-called
Jeffrey Martin - Dogs in the Daylight
Dogs in the Daylight, the latest offering by Eugene-based folk artist Jeffrey Martin, is the next album in a small series of indie folk releases by Portland's Fluff & Gravy Records. Having listened to the album many times in recent weeks, I can say that Martin seems to
Todd Snider and his "Mostly True Tall Tales"
The other day, I was hassling a friend of mine about taking his sweet time to read singer-songwriter Todd Snider’s new book, I Never Met a Story I Didn’t Like: Mostly True Tall Tales.
“I might just quit reading this Merle Haggard bio and go buy the Todd
Luluc: A Life in Many Movements
Preface: Nineteen years ago this month, Grant Alden and I were deep in the midst of creating the debut issue of No Depression magazine, which launched in autumn 1995 in Seattle. Nearly two decades later, our lives are much different. Grant and his wife run a bookstore and coffee shop