Roots Music News--4.27.12

Musician's musician Longmire brings roots music to Fairbanks Fairbanks Daily News-Miner based singer-songwriter has performed voraciously since beginning his musical career in 1984. In 2008, the Willamette Weekly published a family tree of all the musicians Longmire has performed with. Included was a scrawling, detailed hand-drawn map of ... See all stories on this topic »

Jay Ungar and and Molly Mason bring roots music to Asheville's Altamont Theatre Asheville Citizen-Times Special to Citizen-Times ASHEVILLE — Before Jay Ungar became famous as the composer of "Ashokan Farewell," the hypnotic theme song to Ken Burns' PBS Civil War documentary, he'd acquired an almost cultlike following as one of the finest roots music ... See all stories on this topic »

Clutch wants to take heavy music back to its roots Lincoln Journal Star Clutch's Neil Fallon wants to get heavy music back to its roots -- if necessary one song, one show, one audience member at a time. "Heavy music, as in heavy metal or hard rock, has been hijacked by anger and violence," Fallon said. See all stories on this topic »

Musicians Sign Petition Against Village Voice Sex Worker Ads RollingStone.com By Rolling Stone A group of musicians including Alicia Keys, members of REM, the Roots, Alabama Shakes, Civil Wars, Drive-By Truckers and Talib Kweli have joined a campaign to push the Village Voice to stop running ads on Backpage.com advertising ... See all stories on this topic » RollingStone.com

Stagecoach festival's flair has California roots The Desert Sun A dusty day at Stagecoach: California's Country Music Festival in 2011. The seven-year-old festival kicks off its three-day run today at Empire Polo Club in Indio. / Michael Snyder/The Desert Sun INDIO — Stagecoach: California's Country Music Festival ... See all stories on this topic »

Music Review: Marley's Ghost - Jubilee Blogcritics.org (blog) Terms like Americana and "roots" were first coined to help identify artists who are usually hard to pigeonhole. While the members of Marley's Ghost might claim musical genres and labels are completely meaningless to them, their new Jubilee readily fits ... See all stories on this topic »

Go! Music & Dance calendar: April 27-May 3 Times Herald-Record Albert Wisner Library — Angela Easterling performs folk, roots country and rock tunes, 1 McFarland Drive, Warwick, 7 pm May 3, registration required. Call 986-1047, ext. 3, or visit www.albertwisnerlibrary.org. Bard College — American Symphony ... See all stories on this topic »

Q&A: Todd Snider on His New LP, 'Jock Republican Christian' Roots RollingStone.com His new album, Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables, is one of the best musical responses yet to the Great Recession, including a song about Wall Street crapulence that former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel suggested he write. Snider, who's currently in ... See all stories on this topic » RollingStone.com

Blogs

Joe Jonas, The Roots And Queen Latifah Set For Philly Fourth Of ... By Robbie Daw ... with the likes of Joe Jonas, Queen Latifah, Common and Philadelphia native Daryl Hall. "We are very excited to be back again as the headlining band for the Philly Fourth of July Jam," Roots musical director ?uestlove said in a press release. Music News, Reviews, and Gossip...

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The Grand Prospect - No Depression Americana and Roots Music Originally posted on Adobe and Teardrops A few seconds into The Grand Prospect's EP I thought, Are these guys reallyfrom Brooklyn? Because, frankly, they ... www.nodepression.com/xn/detail/2342817:BlogPost:784701

Best of Hebrew Roots Music 5b with Aline & Howie of Mishkanim ... Best of Hebrew Roots Music 5b with Aline & Howie of Mishkanim featuringCurtis Maybry. hebrewnationradio.com/index.php?...k2...