Deep Roots Magazine

Deep Roots Magazine

Roots Music and Meaningful Matters

 
 

 

Being About The Enduring Values

One of the hottest new bluegrass releases of this young year, DARIN & BROOKE ALDRIDGE's SNAPSHOTS centers on the enduring values of faith and love.
by David McGee
 

 
 

Wonders Never Cease

KENTUCKY FOR ME, bluegrass icon DALE ANN BRADLEY's new long player, may be a star-studded affair,but it's all Dale Ann's show. And it may be her best.
by David McGee
 

 

 
Israel Golani album cover

The Other Brother

An appraisal of 17th century lute music written by MICHELANGELO GALILEI, brother of GALILEO, the groundbreaking astronomer-physicist, as performed by ISRAEL GOLANI on a new EP.
by David McGee
 

 
 

The King Keeps Christmas Well

ELVIS made the most of the two Christmas albums he recorded in his lifetime, and RCA has made the most out of multitudinous repackagings.
by David McGee
 

 

 

A Soul Ever More Grateful For What It Knows Of Love

An updated review of a holiday classic: B.B. KING's A CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION OF HOPE. Indeed it is.
by David McGee
 

 
 

A-Caroling They Go

From 2011, our interview with MARSHA GENENSKY of ANONYMOUS 4 centered on the group's five Medieval Christmas albums.
by David McGee
 

 

 

‘He Accomplished Everything He Ever Wanted’

One of the greatest jazz guitarists ever, JOHNNY SMITH passed away on June 11. A tribute to the artist best known for 'Moonlight in Vermont' and 'Walk Don't Run!"
by David McGee
 

 
 

Skip James Made Manifest

In the fifth and final volume of her Mentor Series, RORY BLOCK makes SKIP JAMES manifest on HARD LUCK CHILD: A TRIBUTE TO SKIP JAMES.
by David McGee