Aug 23, 2022 | No Depression, Nora Brown - Results
At 17, Nora Brown Taps Into Past Generations With Her Banjo “From the instruments Nora Brown plays and company she keeps, to the research and knowledge enabling her to fully occupy the music she interprets, it’s evident the bloodlines of banjo lore run thick in...
May 31, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Results, No Depression
Through the Lens: Connections and Community at 2022 Folk Alliance International “FAI brings the biggest names in roots music together with lesser known, yet significant purveyors of the folk music tradition on a stage as equals.” | Read More at No...
Mar 21, 2022 | MMRF - Results, No Depression
New Recording Shows Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins Rocking Hard “But slap a guitar in her hands, turn on the stage lights, and Beverly Watkins was transformed from a mild-mannered church lady into a rocking avenger, shredding anything that dared stand in her...
Mar 3, 2022 | Anne Harris - Results, No Depression
Believing In and Practicing Magic: Anne Harris on Why Her Next Violin Will Make History “Sometimes you do a thing because you are called forth to do it. A calling loud enough to override fear.” | Read More at No...
Feb 2, 2022 | MMRF - Results, No Depression
Album Review: Pianist Albert Smith’s Songs Pack Healing and Heart into Big Belly Mama “Albert Smith’s music has a smile in it. No matter the subject, the South Carolina pianist’s rattly, rollicking keyboard accompaniment creases a listeners’ face with happy...
Jul 29, 2021 | Howard Grimes - Results, No Depression
Drummer Howard Grimes Weaves Memphis Through His Memoir “The book takes us through episodes from Grimes’ years at Stax Records and Hi Records in Memphis, growing up in Memphis and how the music scene has changed since then, and memories of the many musicians for...
Sep 17, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, No Depression
The Reading Room: Art, Music, and History Merge in Hanging Tree Guitars “North Carolinian Freeman Vines is one such luthier, though until now his story has been little known outside of his small patch of ground in eastern North Carolina.” | Read More at...
Sep 18, 2019 | Barnes Brothers - Results, Bible & Tire - Results, Elizabeth King - Results, No Depression
New Label Bible & Tire Serves Up Newly Minted and Vintage Gospel Soul “Elizabeth King missed her blastoff. Forty years ago, she was on the launchpad, fueled up and ready to go, but because of circumstances beyond her control she never achieved...
