Who has a right to sing country, to sing the blues? Even after decades of the commercialization of rural Southern traditions, the questions persist. We look to music of the country -- folk-blues, ...

In the apocalyptic last book of the Bible’s New Testament, the end times play out through the grimly disconcerting visions of John the Revelator, a foreboding moniker that found its way into American ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Greenville’s Jake Garrett, a.k.a. John the Revelator, plays music that seems to float free of any ...

Compiling a list of songs by black blues singers in the 1920s and 1930s that became classics in the blues and rock worlds of later decades would be a major project. Some of those songs were almost ...

“Honest to god,” says Dave Rawlings, “we could talk about this album for a week.” Rawlings and Gillian Welch would be the first to admit that it’s difficult to discuss their landmark third album Time ...