Artist: Amistat Hometown: Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany Latest Album: What We Are EP (releasing March 21) Which artist has influenced you the most – and how? The godfather of indie-folk, Ben Howard! When we first started out as Amistat playing and writing music back in 2012, his album Every Kingdom had just come out. It was…

Artist: Rose Betts Hometown: London, United Kingdom Latest Album: There Is No Ship (released March 7) What has been the best advice you’ve received in your career so far? When I lived in London, my parents would often come to my shows. Right before I’d go on, my mother would say, "Tell me a story." It…

Most people know Patterson Hood as the frontman (really one of two frontmen) for the long-running rock band Drive-By Truckers. Had they come up in the 1970s instead of the ‘90s, the Truckers would have been mentioned in the same breath as bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers Band. Led by Hood and…

Jacob Ware is a bit of a weirdo. Known onstage these days as Rapt, the singer-songwriter has a way of coming up with an album title and writing the entire record around a central sentiment. His fifth studio album – titled Until the Light Takes Us – serves as a direct response to a 2008…

A quarter century removed from his passing, John Hartford’s music and overarching legacy may have a stronger hold on bluegrass and American roots music than ever before. From modern-day stars like Billy Strings and Sam Bush playing his songs in front of thousands each night, to popping up in books, old-time jams, workshops, films, and…