Ten years ago this summer, Kelsey Waldon was named one of Rolling Stone Country’s inaugural Artists You Need to Know. She’s been on a roll ever since, releasing acclaimed albums like 2022’s No Regular Dog, and signing with John Prine’s Oh Boy! Records. On May 10, Waldon will release her latest project, There’s Always a Song, a duet album that finds the Kentucky native interpreting the country and bluegrass songs she listened to while growing up.
Waldon previews There’s Always a Song with the release of “Hello Stranger,...
Waldon previews There’s Always a Song with the release of “Hello Stranger,...
- 2/27/2024
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Ask anyone who works at Rolling Stone what they’ve been listening to lately, and you’re guaranteed to get an interesting answer. In the final weeks of the year, more than 30 colleagues from across the departments that make Rs submitted their personal picks for the 10 best albums of 2023. You’ll find practically every sound imaginable represented somewhere on these lists, from the biggest pop hits to the brightest DIY gold and everything in between. Think of this as a fun counterpart to our official list of the year’s...
- 12/28/2023
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
A little more than a decade ago, Alice Gerrard received an invitation to perform at a fiddle camp in Washington state.
“Should I bring an older musician with me?” Gerrard, 76 at the time, asked her friend Suzy Thompson, who was organizing the event.
Thompson laughed.
“Alice,” she told her. “You’re the older person now.”
Alice Gerrard just celebrated her 89th birthday this summer, but the singer, songwriter, fiddler-guitarist-autoharpist, and folklorist still refuses to see herself as any kind of older legend. As someone who spent the last 70 years learning from past generations of old-time,...
“Should I bring an older musician with me?” Gerrard, 76 at the time, asked her friend Suzy Thompson, who was organizing the event.
Thompson laughed.
“Alice,” she told her. “You’re the older person now.”
Alice Gerrard just celebrated her 89th birthday this summer, but the singer, songwriter, fiddler-guitarist-autoharpist, and folklorist still refuses to see herself as any kind of older legend. As someone who spent the last 70 years learning from past generations of old-time,...
- 10/12/2023
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
One day after Naomi Judd’s death, her daughters Wynonna and Ashley took the stage at the Country Music Hall of Fame to pay tribute to their mother and celebrate the induction of Naomi and Wynonna’s mother-daughter duo, the Judds. Also being inducted at the ceremony were the late Ray Charles, drummer Eddie Bayers, and the late pedal steel player Pete Drake.
Wynonna summed up the surreal, heartbreaking nature of the moment during her speech when she said, “It’s a strange dynamic to be this broken and this blessed…...
Wynonna summed up the surreal, heartbreaking nature of the moment during her speech when she said, “It’s a strange dynamic to be this broken and this blessed…...
- 5/2/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
When Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi began considering what songs to perform at the many home livestreams they played during the early days of 2020 lockdown, they started coming up with songs they hadn’t sung or even thought about in years. For Giddens, that meant old-time fiddle tunes, like “Black As Crow” (often called “Dearest Dear,” or “The Blackest Crow”) that she learned in her early twenties in her native North Carolina. For Turrisi, it meant traditional Italian songs, like the lullaby “Nenna Nenna,” which he used to sing to his baby daughter.
- 2/10/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Bluegrass and roots musicians will all perform at the new multi-day streaming event Porch Pride: A Bluegrass Pride Queer-antine Festival, starting June 27th. The event takes place on the days when San Francisco Pride was originally scheduled; like many Pride celebrations in 2020, it’s since been canceled because of Covid-19.
Artists set to perform during the 10 hours of live music include Jake Blount & the Vox Hunters, Che Apalache frontman Joe Troop, Alice Gerrard, Front Country, Molly Tuttle, Justin Hiltner, Sam Gleaves, and Amythyst Kiah. Performances begin at 1 p.m. on...
Artists set to perform during the 10 hours of live music include Jake Blount & the Vox Hunters, Che Apalache frontman Joe Troop, Alice Gerrard, Front Country, Molly Tuttle, Justin Hiltner, Sam Gleaves, and Amythyst Kiah. Performances begin at 1 p.m. on...
- 5/28/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Jake Owen’s carefree “Drink All Day,” Sara Evans’s cover of a Fleetwood Mac classic and more new songs to hear this week.
Danny Burns, “North Country”
Backed by Mindy Smith, Sam Bush and ChessBoxer, Irish songwriter Danny Burns nods to his homeland with “North Country,” a moody folk song about Ireland’s earliest residents repelling a Viking raid. The acoustic instrumentation is top notch, but it’s Burns’ voice — with its unique pronunciations shaped back home in Donegal — that sells this salute to the old days.
Rachel Wammack,...
Danny Burns, “North Country”
Backed by Mindy Smith, Sam Bush and ChessBoxer, Irish songwriter Danny Burns nods to his homeland with “North Country,” a moody folk song about Ireland’s earliest residents repelling a Viking raid. The acoustic instrumentation is top notch, but it’s Burns’ voice — with its unique pronunciations shaped back home in Donegal — that sells this salute to the old days.
Rachel Wammack,...
- 3/18/2019
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
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