Winter 2022 also features the launch of a new position — the musical guest editor! Singer, songwriter, and country-rock star Margo Price kicks off this inaugural post by contributing a personal essay and helping devise a topic for one of the stories featured in the issue.
Included in this issue:
Hawktail and the history of broadsheets and sheet music
Renewed interest in the late folksinger Norma Tanega, based on the usage of her song in the popular television show What We Do in the Shadows
How the Norwegian Hayde Bluegrass Ensemble translates and interprets Appalachian music in Scandinavia
Inside the forthcoming Hazel & Alice reissues from Smithsonian Folkways
The relaunch of Antone’s Records and the new album by blues pioneer Angela Strehli
A look into the new folk instrumentalists (featuring Eli Winter, Yasmin Williams, and more)
The history and contemporary reinterpretations of boleros (featuring iLe and Adrian Quesada of The Black Pumas)
The Black Legacy Project
... And so much more!
Photos/Art:
Origi
