THROUGH THE LENS: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2025 — All the Roots Music Stars Descended from the Heavens
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BONUS TRACKS: New Ma Rainey Box Set, Smithsonian Folkways Blues Collection Reissue, and More Roots Music News
This week was a good one for the blues. A five-CD, 118-track box set of Ma Rainey's work, titled Mother of the Blues, The Complete Paramount Recordings, 1923-1928, will be released on July 24 via Black Swan Records / George H Buck Jazz Foundation. This will the most comprehensive
THE READING ROOM: Peter Blackstock Revisits Guy Clark's 'Old No. 1'
In November 1975, Guy Clark released his debut album Old No. 1, a now-acknowledged masterpiece, which introduced generations of songwriters to Clark’s spare poetic storytelling.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary, Tamara Saviano, the Creative Manager of Guy Clark LLC and author of 2016’s Without Getting Killed or Caught:
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Christa Joy and The Honeybees, Township & Range, and Ro Myra
I've written before about crowdfunding and vinyl as a sales driver, but this month two of my three featured artists gave me a reminder of just how important and expensive it is. In one of those cases, the artist did a breakdown of where her funding goal was