2024年12月13日 · Who are these people who say that there’s no great music being released anymore - you know, not like when they were young? Maybe they’re just online trolls, but in any event, they couldn’t be more out of touch. We’re in a golden age of music making, and 2024 was another year to prove it. While the quantity of new roots music can be intimidating, the quality is widely distributed across ...

2024年12月30日 · The Down Hill Strugglers - Old Juniper. Old-time American folk music still thrives in Brooklyn, and these guys are leaders in that community, with roles in Jalopy Records, the Jalopy Theater and the Brooklyn Folk Festival.Their return to wax after seven years is cause for celebration, and the songs are, for the first time, all originals.

2024年11月11日 · The Americana Music Association was born at a series of meetings by roots music executives and advocates in 1999. As the AMA wraps up its 25th anniversary year, the scene it’s helped foster is bigger and more star-studded than its original organizers might have predicted. The 4,000-member organization has achieved many goals, from Grammy recognition to a more diverse and inclusive artist ...

2025年1月12日 · What to know. Authorities are investigating at least 24 deaths from the fires — 16 from the Eaton Fire and eight from the Palisades Fire. Search and rescue efforts for missing persons related to the fires began Saturday. More than 40,000 acres have been burned in the Eaton, Palisades, Kenneth and Hurst fires, according to the …

WMOT's American Roots music discovery station can be heard on 89.5 FM in Nashville, Murfreesboro and throughout Middle Tennessee

2024年12月19日 · It’s been just over a decade since the New York Times published its controversial feature story declaring Nashville the nation’s new “It City,” and ever since, that identity has been locked in a codependent frenemy relationship with our much older stature as Music City.. It City attracts 17 million tourists a year, lines its main nightlife street with celebrity-branded multiplexes, and ...

2025年1月17日 · Listen for WMOT's Gospel show, Somebody Say Amen with Rev. Fred 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., every Sunday on WMOT.

2025年1月29日 · Cory Turner reports and edits for the NPR Ed team. He's helped lead several of the team's signature reporting projects, including "The Truth About America's Graduation Rate" (2015), the groundbreaking "School Money" series (2016), "Raising Kings: A Year Of Love And Struggle At Ron Brown College Prep" (2017), and the NPR Life Kit parenting podcast with Sesame Workshop (2019).

2025年1月24日 · The Wonder Women of Country, a side project of busy Americana songwriter/artists Brennen Leigh, Kelly Willis and Melissa Carper, started in 2021 as a touring vehicle for three friends with compatible visions of country music.

2025年1月20日 · Meteorologists at 27 local TV news stations are facing uncertainty about their jobs after Allen Media Group announced a new local weather initiative with The Weather Channel. The group, which owns TV stations in 21 markets across the country, said Saturday it is rolling out a new format for weather ...