Deep Roots Magazine

Deep Roots Magazine

Roots Music and Meaningful Matters

 
 

 
Classical Perspectives
Brahms featured

‘How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place’: An Appreciation

Short, lyrical, and beautiful: JOHANNES BRAHMS's 'How Lovely is They Dwelling Place,' the fourth movement of his German Requiem, adapted from Psalm 84 and intended as a meditation on Heaven. JOHN RUTTER and ROBERT SHAW conduct ...
by David McGee
 
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Spotlight Album
Duke Robillard featured

In Heavy Rotation: Blues & Resistance

Vintage blues with a modern twist from DUKE ROBILLARD and hIS ALL STAR BAND; messages socially conscious and comforting alike from ERIC BIBB;l and TODD CURRY's gospel message, 'kNOw Peace,' in Heavy Rotation
by David McGee
 
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Border Crossings
Dal'Ouna Ensemble featured

Of Synchronicity, Collaboration, and Mutual Support

'With Dal'Ouna I wanted to explore all my emotions, my daily life, my dreams, the oppression I have experienced and all the places that I have lived.'
by David McGee
 
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Sky Above, Earth Below
Growth featured

Growth: Sustainable Agriculture in New Jersey

A look at a flourishing sustainable agriculture project in New Jersey by Rutgers University student COLBY KOUTRAKOS
by David McGee
 
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Reviews
Maria Muldaur featured

THE DEEP ROOTS ELITE HALF-HUNDRED, 2025

The Best of the Rest, the Deep Roots Elite Half-Hundred for 2025 is online! Blues, gospel, classical, folk, bluegrass, Christmas albums, classic soul, soundtracks...all present and accounted for in chronicling the music that me...
by David McGee
 
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Spotlight Album
Carl Perkins featured

The Original Cat’s Missing Link

Recorded, and discarded, in 1990, the album titled Some Things Never Change, finally released in 2025, might well have changed CARL PERKINS's late-career trajectory, if anyone had ever heard it back then.
by David McGee
 
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Album Of The Year
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Deep Roots Albums of the Year, 2025

REGINA VANDERJEIK's gospel masterpiece leads the way. Joining her at the top: BUDDY GUY, DANNY GATTON, THE TWANGTOWN PARAMOUS, DUDLEY TAFT, SIERRA HULL, CHRISTOPHER TIN, LANCE COWAN, ABBA via RAMEAU, and PARCHMAN PRISON inmates.
by David McGee
 
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Spotlight Album
Danny Gatton featured

‘There is no ‘best’ of anything’: Yes, there Is…

DANNY GATTON, hailed by his fellow virtuosos as mastering the guitar in ways beyond those of mere mortals, lives again on a new live album capturing him and his Funhouse band in a brunch concert in 1987 at a Virginia Holiday Inn.
by David McGee
 
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