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Jelly Roll is finally starting to experience the widespread scrutiny his life, career, and music has deserved for a few years now. But it’s coming in a very unusual, and frankly, misguided manner.
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The Infamous Stringdusters 20/20 Grammy Award-winning jam-grass quintet The Infamous Stringdusters, who got together 20 years ago, releases their new album, 20/20, twenty songs for twenty years. Banjoist Chris Pandolfi shares, “We’ve been around for 20 years, and I feel like we’re putting more into our music — both writing and the live shows — […]
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Matt Smith – ….this is not OK This is Matt’s 20th album, a personal & socially conscious project. The music is rootsy, soulful, & has threads of folk, jazz & rock. First listen, the vocal delicacy is similar to Garland Jeffreys. The themes of Austin’s Matt Smith explore love, loss & the current state of […]
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The Anthology of American Folk Music, produced by Harry Smith and released in 1952, is a stunningly comprehensive document that compiled folk, country, and blues tracks recorded between 1926 and 1933. Including Mississippi John Hurt, Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers, The Carter Family, and Reverend Sister Nelson, among many
This year’s Grammy awards, which took place in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 1, 2026, were an opportune time to highlight some of roots music’s finest music and musicians.
On Friday, January 30 at the Roxy Theatre, Dwight Yoakam headlined the first Rockin’ For The
It’s a gift to have yet another new album—his most recent was 2023’s ‘Ridin’,’ which earned a 2024 Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Blues Album—from the prolific Eric Bibb. His new one, ‘One Mississippi,’ illustrates his musical range as he moves from acoustic blues to folk to soul and to jazz.
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