This has to be one of my favorite conversations that I have been lucky enough to have as part of this podcast. Alisa Amador is an amazing musician and shares [ … ]
Show Review: Watchhouse / Yasmin Williams – Durham Performing Arts Center (November 20, 2021)
What a special evening at DPAC last night. I am not sure I have ever seen an opening act hold such a large audience in her hands the way Yasmin [ … ]
Adia Victoria: Deep Water Blues
Listening to Adia Victoria’s latest record, A Southern Gothic, is mesmerizing. It is my favorite album of the year. It is poetic and gritty, ethereal and earthy all at once. [ … ]
Oliver Wood: Always Smilin’ (podcast)
My first concert of 2021 was in June, seeing The Wood Brothers and Ryan Montbleau at an outdoor show at Shakori Hills. Right after that, I got to chat with [ … ]
Charlie Parr: Last of the Better Days (podcast)
It is truly amazing when an artist can use the same tools for decades and continue to create vibrant, urgent, singular work. If there’s any musician that I know who [ … ]
Folk On! 2021
Remember in March of 2020 when we thought we might have to adjust our lives significantly for two whole weeks? And then those two weeks became a month, and two [ … ]
Yasmin Williams: Chasing Sounds (Podcast)
Hearing Yasmin Williams’s compositions is immediately transfixing–and then you see her play, and it’s like you’re seeing someone invent how to play guitar. Yasmin’s most recent record, Urban Driftwood, is [ … ]
Ben Cosgrove: Space by Design (podcast)
You ever hear that David Foster Wallace graduation speech, “This is Water?” It follows from that joke where two fish are swimming along and one says something like, “The water’s [ … ]
Concert Review: Wood Brothers / Ryan Montbleau June 4, 2021
Shakori Grassroots Live June 4, 2021 “It’s such a blessing to be here,” Ryan Montbleau said about halfway through his opening set on Friday night. Were truer words ever [ … ]
Allison Russell: Can’t Steal My Joy (podcast)
Allison Russell has written a beautiful album. “Outside Child,” was largely written while on tour with Native Daughters–Allison’s collaboration with Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, and Amythyst Kiah–and it is a [ … ]