Renowned bluegrass mandolinist Danny Roberts has released a new single, “The Drifter,” through Mountain Home Music Company. This original composition highlights Roberts’ diverse musical influences…
An early reggae feel combined with the kind of harmonies that defined the era vocally, “And Not Another” by British/Guyanese collaboration First Born sounds like…
The Gina Furtado Project’s “Pigtails and Sugarcane” is a poignant musical piece released by Mountain Home Music Company. The track highlights Gina Furtado’s unique banjo…
Swedish reggae band Babylon North expand the parameters of their genre with “Everything I Can (Flames).” The reggae pulse is suggested rather than fully present,…
A Montreal-based band called Abondance brings just enough contemporary flavor to “Mizik,” a song with French Caribbean foundation and a feel that’s lighthearted but certainly…
Chris Jones’ energetic, bluegrass rendition of Tom Paxton’s tale of life on the rails, “The Last Hobo.”Featuring the same top-shelf group of instrumentalists w“The Last…
Jackson Hollow’s new single, “Nothing But Sky” (Mountain Fever Records) delivers a lively, inspiring song, written by Ed Williams, as the leading single from their…
As Benin twosome Duo Landry+ ably demonstrates, African roots music is often best left in a purely traditional state or at least modernized to only…
The Nebraska folk trio, The Wildwoods, has released a new music video for their single “Cherry Pickin‘.” The band, known for their rising prominence in…
American reggae band The Resolvers have much to say about the gap between the haves and the have nots with their song “They Don’t Know.”…