Artist: Countercurrent (Brian Lindsay and Alex Sturbaum) Hometown: Olympia, Washington Latest Album: Flow (released March 3, 2025) Which artist has influenced you the most – and how? It's a three-way tie for me between Great Big Sea (gateway drug into trad music, consummate performers, wonderful harmonies), early Solas (dazzling musicianship, tight arrangements, and an unmistakable guitar…

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…

Upon relaying my artistic moniker to people, I'm usually met with one of two reactions: 1. "Oh, weird...that's interesting" or 2. "Oh, weird... I don't get it." (I guess a third option would be, "Well, that's stupid.") My process of finding a moniker came out of a desire for artistic freedom in my writing, as…

Andrea Zonn and John Cowan have been among the hardest-working musicians around Nashville for the past few decades. Zonn has done tons of sessions both for her violin and vocal prowess as well as touring with superstars like Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett, and James Taylor. Cowan, a longtime member of the legendary New Grass Revival,…

Our partnership with our friends at Real Roots Radio in Southwestern Ohio continues as we move from Black History Month to Women's History Month! This time, we’ll bring you weekly collections of a variety of powerful women in bluegrass, country, Americana, folk, and elsewhere who have been featured on Real Roots Radio’s airwaves each weekday…