Artist: Louisa Stancioff Hometown: I live in Warren, Maine and I am originally from Chesterville, Maine Latest Album: When We Were Looking Which artist has influenced you the most and how? Regina Spektor keeps coming to mind. I listened to her albums Begin to Hope and Far incessantly when I was young, and I loved…

Artist: Matt Koziol Hometown: Linden, New Jersey Latest Album: Last of the Old Dogs (out April 5, 2024) What was the first moment that you knew you wanted to be a musician? I was probably 4 years old and I saw Elivs on TV. It was like watching lightning in a bottle and I wanted…

Since her solo debut in 2014, Vari-Colored Songs: a Tribute to Langston Hughes, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, and thought leader Leyla McCalla has routinely and consistently expanded her own sonic universe. But these have not been gratuitous or ambitious artistic reinventions. Instead, the cellist and multi-instrumentalist intentionally and organically brings in new and exciting textures, influences, stories, cultural…

Artist: Kendl Winter Hometown: Olympia, Washington Latest Album: Banjo Mantras Personal nicknames (or rejected band names): "Lower half of The Lowest Pair" What other art forms – literature, film, dance, painting, etc. – inform your music? I like this question, because I think everything you do, witness, consume, walk by, dance with, or touch informs…

Each year, March is Women’s History Month, and BGS, Good Country, and Real Roots Radio partnered all last month to highlight a variety of our favorite women in country, bluegrass, and roots music with our Women’s History Spotlight. Each weekday in March at 11AM Eastern (8AM Pacific) on Real Roots Radio, host Daniel Mullins has been…