A song called “Springtime” couldn’t come at a more opportune time. As the maples have budded out and are spreading their leaves, rustling in the ever warming breeze. Birds are [ … ]
Category: Interviews
Forecast: Sunny Skies Ahead – An Interview With John Mailander
You could go an entire lifetime and never come across another artist like John Mailander. His musical voice resting on the precipice where beauty meets power. His even temperament balancing [ … ]
Singled Out: Old Town Crier “Moonlight Road”
There is something very endearing about the cacophony of instruments and sounds in the warm and lo-fi delivery from multi-instrumentalist Jim Lough. Going under the moniker “Old Town Crier”, Lough [ … ]
Cary Morin: There’s Always a Way (Podcast)
The last concert I saw out in the world before this pandemic closed venues was Cary Morin at North Star Church of the Arts. I had a prior commitment, so [ … ]
Singled Out: Kyle O’Brien “Good Time Old Time”
It took me a bit to draw some kind of line between what exactly Old Time vs Bluegrass vs Trad music is in the realm of American Roots. But its [ … ]
Kamara Thomas: I Am Your Mama’s Country Music
I think the only kind of conversations Kamara Thomas has are wide-ranging. She is a musician, artist, activist, and community builder, and she brings all of those roles to our [ … ]
Twisted Pine: A Broader Conversation
It’s hard to think of a band that has come out of New England recently that has shapeshifted and evolved more than Twisted Pine. The group has seen some personnel [ … ]
Libby Rodenbough: On the Other Side
The first time I heard Libby Rodenbough sing and play the fiddle, it was on Mipso’s daytrotter session and the song was Guy Clark’s “Dublin Blues,” and I became an [ … ]
Singled Out: Noel Smyth “East Coast”
The winter time seems a million years away as the sun seems to be up at all hours and the heat begins to weigh heavy. But even so, as Noel [ … ]
Singled Out: Whitacre “Seasons”
I am not quite sure where the genre set of Whitacre exactly falls. Its rock, but with faded edges, dusted with a bit of red dirt and coffee-stained. Theres a [ … ]