The Grateful Web Features Ryan Lee Crosby

Ryan Lee Crosby to Release At the Blue Front, Featuring Blues Legend Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, Out This Week, “Evokes John Fahey” (Glide) & “Kicks in All Gears” (Living Blues)

Recorded Over Two Days at Holmes’ Iconic Mississippi Juke Joint, The Eight-Track Project Offers a Haunting, Hypnotic Meld of Bentonia and Hill Country Blues Every time Ryan Lee Crosby returns to New England after visiting Bentonia, Mississippi, the feeling he...
WBEZ Features Anne Harris

WBEZ Features Anne Harris

Rock fiddler Anne Harris graduated from the “university of blues.” Now, she’s going solo. “The Elmhurst musician — the first professional Black musician to play a violin made by a Black luthier — will take the spotlight at the Fox Valley Folk...
Billboard Highlights FAI 2025

Billboard Highlights FAI 2025

Also this week: Canadian artists are well-represented at Folk Alliance International ” FAI has just announced the lineup of the 150-plus artists representing over 34 countries in Official Showcases at FAI, and some major Canadian folk, roots and blues artists...
PBS Features Woody Guthrie

PBS Features Woody Guthrie

Newly released tapes reveal intimate reflections by Woody Guthrie “Nearly 60 years after his death, there is a renewed interest in the life and music of American folk icon and social activist Woody Guthrie.”  |  Read More at...
The Grateful Web Features Ryan Lee Crosby

Goldmine Highlights Ryan Lee Crosby

Looking for blues, Americana, jazz or superb writing? Here are some worthy new releases “Like Turchi, New England-based Ryan Lee Crosby can create a hypnotic groove derived from the blues’s roots in western Africa.”  |  Read More at...
Billboard Highlights FAI 2025

Grateful Web Previews FAI 2025

FAI Announces Official Showcasing Artists for 2026 Conference “Folk Alliance International (FAI) has unveiled the Official Showcase lineup for its 38th annual conference, January 21–25, 2026, in New Orleans, LA. More than 150 artists representing 34 countries...