“It’s a fusion,” says Dom Flemons. He plays the 4-string banjo, guitar, harmonica, kazoo, snare drums, bones and quills, and he’s one of the founding members of folk/roots trio Carolina Chocolate Drops. He’s addressing the notion of making old things new, preserving legacy and creating a contemporary realm for his group’s music instead of merely [...]
I remember the first time I went there,” recalls soul/ funk pioneer Teena Marie of her earliest engagement with New Orleans. “All I could think was, ‘Why does it feel like I’ve been here before?’ Something in the air felt—I was connected to the air, and the people, the food. Everything. And I didn’t know [...]
Somewhere south of Nashville, in a great big hardwood ballroom of a recording studio with baffles and warrens of isolation booths, it’s business as usual. Some very competent musicians have been booked; some very good songs have been selected. It is about coloring in the pictures and bringing emotions to life. As he returns to [...]
Her voice lifts, husky yet lighter than ether… These are not her songs, yet they are exhaled as something from deep within her veins. For Oscar-nominated chanteuse Allison Moorer, Mockingbird was more than a meditation on women’s voices or a departure from her own songwriting, but more an excavation of the universal truths of womanhood [...]
