November 25, 2024

Don’t Forget This Song: Celebrating the Carter Family and Other Roots Musicians

  You may forget the singer, but don’t forget the song, the Carter Family bade listeners of one particularly mournful tune they recorded more than eighty years ago. The writer of those lyrics needn’t have worried.  Today the songs of America’s roots music are not only remembered but thriving – in forms that both recreate the authentic sound and remake it in fresh ways – in  the widely diverse Americana music genre. These old songs continue to spark artists of all types, yours truly … [Read more...]