BONUS TRACKS: New Music From Alabama Shakes, Mary Gauthier, Rhiannon Giddens, A Dolly Parton Musical, and More Roots Music News
Bonus Tracks is back with a double dose of roots music news after taking last Friday off for America’s 250th birthday. (Through The Lens columnist Amos Perrine’s column about roots music in America is required reading on that topic.)
After more than a decade, roots-rock-






Lara Downes & Friends – Hold These Truths This showcase begins pensively with a short piano piece, “Welcome,” & like several of the 21 cuts on this album, it’s precise & brief. The compositions vary from works written by Oscar Peterson, Willie Nelson, Charles Ives, Stephen Foster, Leonard Bernstein & Aaron Copland. It’s quite a […]