Columns THROUGH THE LENS: Our Favorite Roots Music Photos of 2025 Charley Crockett - Photo by Liza Orozco
FOUNDERS KEEPERS: Small But Mighty Music Shop small, they say, backed by a brief national marketing campaign, signage, slogans, all the rest. Yes, please. Please support small business, what's left of it, for I am a serial entrepreneur, married into a bookstore/coffeeshop located in a small town in the Appalachian foothills. Voting matters,
BONUS TRACKS: RIP Raul Malo and More Roots Music News Raul Malo, frontman and founder of the genre-crossing roots-rock band The Mavericks passed away on Monday at the age of 60. For the last year and a half, the smooth-voiced tenor battled colon cancer that metastasized into leptomeningeal disease (wherein the cancer spreads into the fluid surrounding the brain and
BONUS TRACKS: 'O Brother Where Art Thou?' Reissue and More Tributes to Todd Snider Lost Highway Records (ND story) announced a 25th anniversary, vinyl gatefold edition of the beloved O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack due out on February 20, 2026. In conjunction with the recently revived label, T Bone Burnett will present a special event honoring the film and its music at the