Deep Roots Magazine

Deep Roots Magazine

Roots Music and Meaningful Matters

 
 

 

With Purpose and Passion

"We were just raising some funds for this amazing junior high school on two Sunday afternoons with the student body and teachers also in attendance,” Darrell Scott writes in the liner copy. It may indeed have been as casual a...
by David McGee
 

 
 

To Dream Like an Angel

The year of our Lord 2021 has been awaiting its masterpiece of a Christmas album, and finally it has arrived in the form of La Chapelle de Quebec’s stunning The Road to Christmas.
by David McGee
 

 

 

Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks — May 2014

‘…still traveling the gospel highway…’ JUST LOOK AT ME NOW Brooklyn All Stars Just Look At Me Now 4 Winds Records www.malaco.com Founded in the late 1950s, the Brooklyn All Stars are still traveling the gospel h...
by David McGee
 

 
 

The Deep Roots Yuletide Baedeker 2024

A holiday celebration of the best of seasonal music, movies, cartoons, literature, poetry--behold the 2024 Yuletide.
by David McGee
 

 

 

In Heavy Rotation: Catching Up on the Blues

A sextet of 2024 blues releases new to our pages and worthy of widespread admiration...
by David McGee
 

 
 

It’s a Giraffe! It’s a Horse! It’s a Zebra!
No, It’s an Okapi, the Odd Duck of the Congo

A giraffe head plopped on a dark brown horse body with the rump and legs of a zebra--not a mistake from the Animal Design Studio, but a real animal, the okapi, the last large animal discovered in Africa. And John Lukas has been...
by David McGee
 

 

 

In Heavy Rotation: Blues ‘n’ Soul

Blues and soul for what ails you, and the times, from JOHNNY RAWLS, DUDLEY TRAFT and BOB CORRITORE & FRIENDS. Be well!
by David McGee
 

 
 

The City in Rags

Ragtime is alive and well and ever more vibrant when pianist-composer DAVID CHESKY brings some new, contemporary twists to the style in his love letter to New York City, THE NEW YORK RAGS. Scott Joplin is up there smiling, and ...
by David McGee