A Song From Neil Young’s Teens Closes His 50th Album
The last song on Second Song is older than almost everything else Neil Young has recorded. I’ll Love You Forever dates from 1964, according...
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Where Something About the Sun Came From, and Why Noel Herrity Writes Characters
A Dublin Songwriter Whose Lyrics Come First and Whose Subjects Are Real People The recording is titled Something about the Sun, and the description...
Pokey LaFarge Built Rent Money Around the Almighty Dollar
“Hambone” is the track that gives the game away. It is fully revved up and still stripped down, which is a difficult combination to...
Ken Pomeroy Is Up for Album and Emerging Act at the Americana Honors
Cruel Joke put Ken Pomeroy in two places on the same ballot. The record is nominated for Album of the Year at the 25th...
Miko Marks Opens Hell Or High Water at the Little Bighorn
Writers working through personal upheaval often go inward and narrow. Going outward to history instead is a harder and less common move.
Hot Club of Cowtown Answered a Village Voice Ad and Stayed Thirty Years
Hot Club of Cowtown performing at the RVA Folk Festival. In 1994 Elana James put a classified ad in the Village Voice looking for...
Marty Stuart Made a Surf Guitar Album on Clarence White’s Telecaster
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives performing at MerleFest. Fifty years into a career built on traditional country, Marty Stuart made a surf record....
Turnpike Troubadours Covered Robert Earl Keen With Sierra Hull
Turnpike Troubadours performing in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2023. The Turnpike Troubadours spent June covering a Robert Earl Keen song with a bluegrass musician and...
Jontavious Willis Shares a Ballot With John Primer and Jimmie Vaughan
Jontavious Willis performing at the Chicago Blues Festival. The Traditional Blues Male Artist ballot at this year’s Blues Music Awards reads Billy Branch, Rick...
Jason Isbell Made an Album Alone With a 1940 Martin in Five Days
Jason Isbell performing at the Cambridge Folk Festival. Five days at Electric Lady Studios, one 1940 Martin, and nobody else in the room. Jason...
Why the Glockenspiel Survived: Bed by Stacy Henle and the Craft of a Quiet Folk Single 
Maybe Magic by Ryan Sweezey and a Decade of Unfinished Songs: The Long Version 
Where Deep Blue Sea Came From: Kadi Beth and a Mayday Call Over Dark Water 
Backyard Getaway by Emily Fraser, a Pop-Country Escape: The Long Version