Bubbling up from the banks of the Mississippi River, Minneapolis-based trio The Last Revel’s “Front Porch Americana” has gained the band praise for their spirited live performances and soulful recordings. In 2017 the band released their third album,...
“Denver’s changed so much since I moved here in 1980,” Mollie O’Brien says. “But Swallow Hill has maintained the same wonderful commitment and love for the music and that’s a wonderful thing.” Mollie’s concerts in...
Long before catchall terms like Americana and Alt-Country became well-worn, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band blended their Southern California roots rock with some of country’s most hallowed songs and performers to record Will The Circle Be Unbroken. Whether the world...
Jon Hartford appears to be everywhere of late. Though the riverboat troubadour who exploded the boundaries of bluegrass died in 2001, he continues to show up in surprising and unlikely places. John’s song “This Eve of Parting” features prominently in...
“I am a working class musician.” With these simple words Ellis Paul described himself at the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference in November 2015. “I want to talk about basically where I’ve come from and why it worked for me. I’ve done 5,000...
Editor’s Note: Swallow Hill’s James Cook interviewed John Craigie and wrote this article. Somewhere in Portland, Oregon, hidden under a wash of pine trees, John Craigie is on his porch playing guitar with his friends. That is, when he isn’t playing...
