It’s not often that a musician takes a time-tested popular song written and performed by a music-writing powerhouse (in this case Elton John and Bernie Taupin), and makes it their own. Add to that the fact that Joni Mitchell...
Jimmie Rodgers, considered the father of country music, could have carried the title of the “countriest” country singer ever. After all, he made yodeling famous with his series of 13 “blue yodel” songs written between 1927 and 1933. From...
This webinar aired in December of 2020 as part of the Southeast Folk Alliance's webinar series SERFA Sessions. It looks at how an artist being interviewed live or for a publication can make the most of the experience. The...
I got to sit down with the multi-talented bluegrass musician Glen Harrell, the lead vocalist and fiddler of the two-time IBMA award-winning bluegrass band Volume Five. Click the link below to have a listen to some of their stellar...
I remember one time a man was asking me about the music I perform and play, and I mentioned “folk” music in my reply. He asked me point blank, “What is folk music?” I was a little surprised. He...
June 24, 2014, marked the official release of the latest album from Smithsonian Folkways called Classic African American Songsters. It is a celebration of the vast variety of repertoire that these "songsters," or traveling African American musicians of the...
