I’m rarely satisfied with the status quo. And I love roots music that is bona fide. Well, I’ve used up most of my Latin vocabulary very quickly. I didn’t know what "Tempus Fugit" meant until I got a wonderful new song from Tim Stafford and Missy Raines, both great artists, writers, and old friends. Missy…

(Editor's Note: Thanks to our friends at Big Ears Festival, held at the end of March in Knoxville, Tennessee, we're able to share these photos of revered folk icon Michael Hurley taken during what the world would later realize were two of his final performances, captured shortly before he passed on April 1, 2025.  To…

While you know better, there’s a wide swath of the music-listening world in which Alison Krauss is best known as former Led Zeppelin golden god Robert Plant’s duet partner. Yet, Krauss has had a wholly remarkable career going back nearly 40 years, in which she has exhibited profound collaborative instincts and abilities. On the occasion…

From banjo geniuses to borderless country and folk, this time, our weekly new music and premiere roundup has a little bit of everything! Kicking us off, BGS Podcast Network host and singer-songwriter Bri Bagwell, who's behind the Only Vans podcast, brings us a lovely fresh country track called "Border Girl." It's about how close we…

On April 4, Joe K. Walsh released his latest album, Trust and Love. The project is an utterly gorgeous take on minimalism within music. It combines a unique instrumentation of Joe (on the mandolin family instruments), Rich Hinman (guitar, lap steel, pedal steel), Zachariah Hickman (bass), Dave Brophy (drums and percussion), John Mailander (fiddle, except…