Sierra Ferrell Booked a Year of Touring Without a New Album to Sell
Sierra Ferrell performing at MerleFest in 2021. The usual reason to book a year of touring is that there is a record to sell....
Country Folk
Keb’ Mo’ Answered a Hard Year With One Guitar and a Gospel Choir
Keb’ Mo’ performing with a resonator guitar. Thirty years into a career built on warm, band-backed records, Keb’ Mo’ has made the album with...
Punch Brothers Made a Whole Album Without Chris Thile Singing
Punch Brothers performing at Bumbershoot in 2015, before Brittany Haas joined the band. Chris Thile has one of the most recognisable voices in American...
The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys Named an Album After Their Two New Members
The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys performing at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 2023. Most bands name an album after a song on it. The Po’...
Billy Strings Hired T Bone Burnett and Called In His Heroes
Billy Strings was raised on Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Earl Scruggs and Del McCoury records, handed to him by his stepfather. Del...
Rhiannon Giddens Built a Band From Louisiana, the Congo and Italy
Rhiannon Giddens has spent twenty years arguing that American music was made by people from everywhere. Her new album is that argument assembled as...
Miko Marks Opens Hell Or High Water at the Little Bighorn 
Hot Club of Cowtown Answered a Village Voice Ad and Stayed Thirty Years 
Marty Stuart Made a Surf Guitar Album on Clarence White’s Telecaster 
Turnpike Troubadours Covered Robert Earl Keen With Sierra Hull