About Us

Country, Americana and Bluegrass

MusicRoots.News covers country, americana, bluegrass, folk-country and the blues that feeds them. We publish explanatory journalism about how music actually gets made, released and paid for, rather than press-release coverage of what came out this week.

We follow the tradition as a working practice rather than a heritage exhibit: how the Nashville number system actually gets used in a session, what a pedal steel does that nothing else can, and why the repertoire survives by being played.

How we work

Articles here are written by Gareth Hollis, who covers this beat for MusicRoots.News. Pieces are researched and written rather than aggregated, and where a claim rests on a specific event, statistic or decision we check it against primary reporting before it publishes. We do not run articles built from a single aggregator.

We do not fabricate interviews, quotes or releases. If we have not spoken to someone, we do not imply that we have. Where a piece is analysis rather than reporting, it reads as analysis.

Who publishes this

MusicRoots.News is part of the MW3.biz music network. MW3.biz connects independent and grassroots artists with music curators and publications, and supports artists self-managing their own careers. Coverage decisions here are editorial and are not determined by whether an artist has used that platform.

If you are an artist looking to promote a release, the platform is at mw3.biz.