Deep Roots Magazine - Roots Music and Meaningful Matters

The Man In Black, In All Dimensions

In this the 80th year of JOHNNY CASH’s birth, Columbia/Legacy is celebrating with five new collections of vintage and previously unreleased Cash music that pretty much cover the waterfront of the Man in Black’s aesthetic.

by David McGee

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NASA’S Fermi Measures Cosmic ‘Fog’ Produced by Ancient Starlight

Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe and used it to establish the total amount of light from all of the stars that have ever sho...

by David McGee

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Let the Hard Times Roll…

It's always a good year for the blues when JOHN PRIMER surfaces on record. His latest, TOUGH TIMES is one of his finest.

by David McGee

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Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks

BOB MAROVICH's new gospel picks include a new album by one of the great vocal finds of recent years, LIZ VICE, along with CDs by YANCY AND FRIENDS, KATHERINE BURTON, DEWAYNE WOODS, et al.

by David McGee

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The Common Language of the Heart

Tony Bennett and Bill Charlap are together again, now in a relaxed, refined, reflective and altogether classy survey of the songs of Jerome Kern, 'the angel at the top of the tree.'

by David McGee

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Updike & Easter, 2014

Continuing our annual tradition, we present seven new voices commenting on the meaning and import of John Updike's oft-contemplated, much-debated poem, 'Seven Stanzas at Easter.'

by David McGee

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To Seek a Better World

On its new album, U.K. collective DON KIPPER offers music taut with intention to meet the moment.

by David McGee

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There Goes the Sun

The 'lost' album from ARTHUR 'BIG BOY' CRUDUP's 1969 Delmark trifecta, SUNNY DAY, may have a placid surface, but things are roiling underneath. The road ain't so sunny.

by David McGee

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