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# Deep Roots Magazine

Roots Music and Meaningful Matters

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- [Clara Ward Abides](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/09/24/clara-ward-abides/) - From Sweden's Gospel Friend label, a 27-track collection of rare and unreleased recordings dating from 1949 to 1971 featuring Clara Ward and the Ward Singers, including Marion Williams, in their peak years.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2026/01/02/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-54/) - A terrific trio of new gospel albums featuring BRENT JONES; ARMSTEAD FORD & CALVIN IVY; and EMMANEUL DICKSON
- [Where Senior and Hospice Dogs Find TLC](https://deeprootsmag.org/2026/01/01/where-senior-and-hospice-dogs-find-tlc/) - An interview with JENNIFER LANGSTON, founder of Golden Ears, is a specialized refuge for senior and hospice dogs, with a stated mission to provide the dogs with dignified end of life comfort and care.
- [Remembering Raul Malo, Pt. 2](https://deeprootsmag.org/2026/01/01/raul-malo-tribute-pt-2/) - Interviews with RAUL MALO as his solo career unfolded, from 2001’s Today to 2010’s Sinners & Saints. Herewith the second part of the Deep Roots tribute to a generational artist, who passed away on December 8, 2025.
- [Holiday Music Stocking Stuffers 2025](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/11/23/holiday-music-stocking-stuffers-2025/) - A bounty of Stocking Stuffers 2025 including MARK and MAGGIE O'CONNOR, THE TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS, THE SPRINGFIELDS, DARYL MOSELY, ALEX MILLER, a Yule-inspired take on Poe's "The Bells," STELLA COLE, and FRANK SINATRA, among others.
- [Remembering Raul Malo, Pt. 1](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/12/12/remembering-raul-malo-pt-1/) - The cancer that took RAUL MALO on December 8 will never still one of the most majestic voices of our time. In Pt. 1 of our tribute to Raul, archival reviews capture him solo and with The Mavericks in the spirit of the season.
- [A Jolly Holly Tunes Holiday](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/11/25/a-jolly-holly-tunes-holiday/) - Guitarist WAYNE WILKINSON leads his seasoned trio through a mellow, invigorating jazz excursion, often improvisational , exploring the outer limits of some choice Yuletide evergreens.
- [The Deep Roots Yuletide Baedeker 2025](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/11/28/the-deep-roots-yuletide-baedeker-2025/) - The annual DEEP ROOTS YULETIDE BAEDEKER is online, with links to new and vintage content published in Deep Roots over the years--a holiday bonanza of vintage music, animated evergreens, holiday-themed films, holiday fiction, holiday poetry, seasonal reflections, and more.
- [A Half-Century+ of Classic Animated ‘Rudolph’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/02/half-century-classic-animated-rudolph/) - On Dec. 6, 1964 NBC premiered an animated version of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER with BURL IVES as host. It drew a 50 share and was an instant holiday classic. From a 50 share to 50+ years as a holiday staple, we pay tribute to this RANKIN-BASS evergreen.
- [Rising Above Time](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/10/01/rising-above-time/) - BUDDY GUY has the blues album of the year, and his producer, TOM HAMBRIDGE, a one-man musical juggernaut, has another mighty fine solo long-player of his own. Both are reviewed herein.
- [Very Mary Indeed](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/05/very-mary-indeed/) - Unquestionably the top new Christmas release of 2013, A MARY CHRISTMAS, the DAVID FOSTER-produced holiday long player from MARY J. BLIGE, is an instant soul Christmas classic.
- [A Classic Restored](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/11/a-classic-restored/) - Long unavailable on these shores in CD form, a Christmas classic from GLEN CAMPBELL, 1968's THAT CHRISTMAS FEELING, has finally been reissued by Capitol Nashville. Noel!
- [From The Inkwell: An Animated Christmas](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/10/from-the-inkwell-an-animated-christmas-2/) - A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS, FROSTY THE SNOWMAN, THE SNOWMAN, MICKEY'S CHRISTMAS CAROL reviewed
- [Marvin Gaye Sings a Christmas Song](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/11/14/marvin-gaye-sings-a-christmas-song/) - The story behind MARVIN GAYE's 'I Want to Come Home for Christmas,' a Vietnam Vet's appeal.
- [The Anti-Slavery Roots of 'O Holy Night'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/12/14/o-holy-night/) - Attacked for his opposition to inequality, slavery, injustice and other kinds of oppression, French poet PLACIDE CAPPEAU insinuated his unpopular thoughts into an 1847 poem that became 'O Holy Night'
- [‘You’ll Go Down In History’—And How](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/12/02/youll-go-down-in-history-and-how/) - You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen… But do you know the real-life tragedy that spurred Robert May to write a poem for his four-year-old daughter that became a cultural and multimedia phenomenon? Rudolph takes flight.
- [The ‘Quiet Ecstasy’ of Harry Simeone’s ‘Little Drummer Boy’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/02/quiet-ecstasy-harry-simeones-little-drummer-boy/) - The story behind THE HARRY SIMEONE CHORALE's classic 'THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY' begins in 1941 with KATHERINE KENNICOTT DAVIS'S 'CAROL OF THE DRUM' and includes a classic Christmas album featuring the oft-covered seasonal favorite.
- [Pt. I: ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’ & The Lost Punctuation Mark](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/02/pt-god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-lost-punctuation-mark/) - What Americans hear when they listen to 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' is not anything like what the English peasants meant when they first sang this song more than 500 years ago. So claims best selling author ACE COLLINS.
- [Christmas in All Hues of Blues](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/12/13/christmas-in-all-hues-of-blues/) - CHRISTMAS IN ALL HUES OF BLUES, an updated review from 2012, spotlighting four classic blues-oriented Yuletide collections: DEATH MIGHT BE YOUR SANTA CLAUS and tBLUES, BLUES CHRISTMAS, Vols. 1-3
- [Alternate Routes, Same Destination](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/12/17/alternate-roots-same-destination/) - New holiday fare by KRISTIN KORB and Canada's folk duo SILENT WINTERS take alternate routes to arrive at the same destination: the heart--ours and the season's.
- [Christmas 1974: Santa (USPS) Brings the 1st Self-Adhesive Stamp](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/12/02/christmas-1974-santa-usps-brings-the-1st-self-adhesive-stamp/) - Those self-adhesive stamps we so love? Christmas 1974 brought the first of what were then considered experimental issues, featuring the Dove of Peace weathervane from George Washington's Mount Vernon home. Much trial-and-error followed.
- [The First Christmas Stamps](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/12/02/the-first-christmas-stamps/) - It may seem like Christmas stamps have been around pretty much forever in some form, but in fact the U.S. did not issue a Yuletide stamp until 1962. Canada, in 1889, beat everyone to the punch with its Queen Victoria-approved Christmas stamp. Read all about it here.
- [Suffused With Beauty](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/12/02/suffused-with-beauty/) - Nancy Lamott and beauty were on intimate terms. It radiated from her warm personality, resonated in her tender vocals, and suffused the recordings she made before succumbing to cancer in 1995 at age 43. Her lone Christmas album is classic.
- [Hag Saw It All Coming](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/11/30/hag-saw-it-all-coming/) - Originally issued on Capitol in 1973 as Merle Haggard's Christmas Present: Something Old, Something New, Merle Haggard's Christmas album has only 10 cuts, but all have a special--and many a prescient--feeling about them. Hag saw it all coming.
- [Timeless Enya, for All Seasons](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/11/29/timeless-enya-for-all-seasons/) - Irish enchantress Enya has offered not a Christmas album, but rather an album-length meditation on the Yuletide season, its sound, its totems, its joys, its summons to reflection and introspection.
- [Strictly Coolsville](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/11/29/strictly-coolsville/) - A trio of brilliant holiday albums bearing title variations of WONDERLAND rank with the essential anthologies of seasonal fare. Released in 2003, the recordings range from rare to familiar, the artists from obscure to beloved. Talk about a holly, jolly Christmas--this is it!
- [Home is Where the Heart Is](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/12/23/home-is-where-the-heart-is/) - On HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, vocalist JAN DALEY offers a little something for all tastes here, ranging from an opportunity to luxuriate in seasonal romance even as the program gently reminds listeners of why we’re here in the first place.
- [Let's Hear It For The Girls](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/08/lets-hear-it-for-the-girls/) - Considering memorable holiday fare from EDIE ADAMS and DORIS DAY
- [Christmas Stocking Stuffers 2022](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/11/25/christmas-stocking-stuffers-2022/) - DARYL MOSLEY offers a rustic 'An Old-Fashioned Christmas' and gospel artists ANTHONY FAULKNER and THE WARDLAW BROTHERS bring forth uplifting Yule messages.
- [The Deep Roots Yuletide Baedeker 2024](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/11/15/the-deep-roots-yuletide-baedeker-2024/) - A holiday celebration of the best of seasonal music, movies, cartoons, literature, poetry--behold the 2024 Yuletide.
- [Our Christmas Best to You](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/12/17/our-christmas-best-to-you-2/) - An unassuming tape from the late '80s, sent as a holiday gift to media friends by what its now BONNEVILLE INTERNATIONAL, turns out to be the most heartwarming of Yuletide messages, an instant seasonal classic.
- [Deep Roots Albums of the Year, 2024 Edition](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/01/09/deep-roots-albums-of-the-year-2024-edition/) - MIKE ZITO's 'Life is Hard' tops the 2024 Deep Roots Albums of the Year selections
- [The Deep Roots Elite Half-Hundred, 2024 Edition](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/01/10/the-deep-roots-elite-half-hundred-2024-edition/) - The Best of the Rest: Fifty albums that made life worth living in 2024. Blues, bluegrass, Classical, jazz, classic pop, gospel in the house.
- [‘A Humble Offering to Keep the Flame Alive’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/10/06/a-humble-offering-to-keep-the-flame-alive/) - ‘Music has the power to transcend boundaries, just as Gandhi’s message did…’ Multi-Grammy winner RICKY KEJ and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate KAILASH SATYARTHI honor GANDHI's 'Mantras of Compassion'
- [BOB MAROVICH'S GOSPEL PICKS](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/10/04/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-53/) - SAMAJE, one of the finest young gospel artists to emerge in recent years, hits one out of the park on his '92 album. Also reviewed: a moving new single inspired by Ghandi's philosophy, abide with me, by RICKY KEJ.
- [Aethereal Beauties: Vox Clamantis Celebrates Arvo Pärt @90](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/10/02/aethereal-beauties-vox-clamantis-celebrates-arvo-part-90/) - Honoring composer Arvo Pärt's 90th birthday, VOX CLAMANTIS, conducted by JAAN-ELK TULVE, offers aetherial beauties from the Pärt oeuvre in And I heard a voice... Review by ROBERT HUGILL.
- [Open Up the Doors](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/08/13/open-up-the-doors/) - Flow down Grace: Is REGINA VANDEREIJK (born in North Carolina, now residing in Gouda, Netherlands) the future of gospel? Her first album, THE LORD IS THERE, raises the question.
- [In Heavy Rotation: Bluegrass Heavy Hitters](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/08/28/in-heavy-rotation-bluegrass-heavy-hitters/) - A great year for bluegrass stays on the good foot with new albums from SIERRA HULL, DANNY PAISLEY, RED CAMEL COLLECTIVE and a scintillating summit between BOB MINTZER & THE WDR BIG BAND with DAROL ANGER and MIKE MARSHALL
- [A Fine Place Worth Fighting For](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/08/27/a-fine-place-worth-fighting-for/) - A passion project about climate change, saxophonist ALISTAIR PENMAN's THE LAST TREE''s music is inspired by the words of Ghandi, Voltaire, Hemingway, Obama and others, and features his instrument solo, overdubbed 14 times.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/08/27/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-52/) - Hard rock gospel from Japan's IMARI TONES; traditional trio gospel from NEW CONVERTED VOICES; hip-hop from ELOHIN; and multicultural sounds from the HOUSE OF DAVID soundtrack.
- [In Heavy Rotation: Blues 'n' Soul](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/06/09/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!
- [When We Harm Wolves, We Harm Ourselves](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/06/28/when-we-harm-wolves-we-harm-ourselves/) - CLARK TENAKHONGVA, U.S. Army veteran, former Hopi Nation vice chairman, former co-chairman of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, explains why 'we and the wolves persist,' despite efforts to eradicate both.
- [Report From the Mountaintop](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/05/26/report-from-the-mountaintop/) - LYNDA RANDLE's 10-song housewrecker, 'Down by the Riverside,' comes straight out of the country church, with the artist backed by decidedly roots country soundscapes.
- [Being About Disconnect, Romantic and Otherwise](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/05/26/being-about-disconnect-romantic-and-otherwise/) - As he did n his surprising 2024 debut, LANCE COWAN once again looks deep into his characters' splintered interior lives, revealing many of them to be battling dark nights of the soul.
- [Sensational Nightingales’ Jo Jo Wallace Crosses Over](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/05/24/sensational-nightingales-jo-jo-wallace-crosses-over/) - A tribute to JO JO WALLACE, last surviving member of the SENSATIONALNIGHTINGALES' golden era lineup, crosses over at age 98. But did he write 'The Twist'?
- [The Force is With Them](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/01/18/the-force-is-with-them/) - DAVE STRYKER and arranger-conductor BRENT WALLARAB play it again, Sam, in an album of movie themes.
- [All the Beauty Within](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/01/20/all-the-beauty-within/) - On his latest memorable album, MICHAEL DINALO celebrates nature and other meaningful matters.
- [In Heavy Rotation: Blues for the Soul](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/04/15/in-heavy-rotation-blues-for-the-soul/) - Blues to soothe troubled souls in a troubled time from JIMMY VIVINO, KID RAMOS and OLLEE OWENS.
- [Music of Friendships and Collaborations](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/05/20/music-of-friendships-and-collaborations/) - Diverse at first, this disc makes a highly satisfying whole, linked together by the threads of the SACCONI's connection to composer JONATHAN DOVE. Herein an informed appraisal courtesy ROBERT HUGILL.
- [Protest Is Another Form of Love](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/04/08/protest-is-another-form-of-love/) - High Country News editor-in-chief JENNIFER SAHN on 'the patriotic duty of showing up for the land and its stewards'
- [The Past is Present](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/03/26/the-past-is-present/) - On Legacy, Indian slide guitar master Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya honors the traditions of Indian music and the teachings that have inspired his journey.
- [To Protect Our Sacred Lands](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/04/17/we-must-protect-our-sacred-lands/) - Clark Tenakhongva, artist-activist-former vice chairman of the Hopi Tribe: 'To meet the crisis of our time and help address past wrongs, we need bold action from decision makers.'
- [The Heroic and Visionary Women of Passover](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/04/16/the-heroic-and-visionary-women-of-passover-2/) - From 2015, JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBERG and RABBI LAUREN HOLTZBLATT' tell the stories of the women who played a crucial role in the Exodus narrative'
- [Seven Voices on ‘Seven Stanzas’: 2025 Edition](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/04/12/seven-voices-on-seven-stanzas-2025-edition/) - Our 14th installment of seven voices reflecting on the meaning of JOHN UPDIKE's poem, 'Seven Stanzas at Easter,' with musical interludes.
- [Bobbi Lane Offers Light in The Darkness](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/02/17/bobbi-lane-offers-light-in-the-darkness/) - After losing her father and her sister within three months of each other in 2023, BOBBI LANE found strength in gospel music. In an exclusive interview with BOB MAROVICH, she tells how the music got her through.
- [Sense and Sensibility](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/02/17/sense-and-sensibility/) - On COMMON SENSE GARY NICHOLSON makes good trouble and good sense in taking the measure of our times in his wise, wry and witty news songs
- [Updike at Easter, 2024 Edition](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/03/22/seven-voices-1-on-seven-stanzas/) - Seven Voices on 'Seven Stanzas" with new voices (including Updike's own) and appropriate gospel music interludes.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/02/17/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-51/) - Two extraordinary albums, one featuring prisoners at Parchman Prison, the other featuring largely Chicago gospel artists in intimate home settings
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/02/18/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-43/) - Reviews of two new albums from a pair of promising young gospel artists: AIDIA's HOLD IT ALL TOGTHER, and JARRED ALLSTAR's THE GIFT AND THE CALLING 3.
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/06/04/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-49/) - Must-hear new gospel albums and singles, including new music from EARNEST PUGH
- [BOB MAROVICH'S GOSPEL PICKS](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/12/13/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-50/) - Introducing REGINA VANDEREIJK, the greatest new voice of the year; RIP, The Nelons; Gospel Christmas singles 2024
- [Strange Magic: Rameau Meets ABBA](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/02/16/strange-magic-rameau-meets-abba/) - Wherein Asya Fateyeva (saxophones) and Lautten Compagney Berlin create magic in teaming Jean-Philippe Rameau with ABBA.
- [Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/04/10/carl-sagans-pale-blue-dot/) - With more than one million views at present, this video of CARL SAGAN's eloquent, poetic meditation on 'the only home we've ever known' is even more timely and important than it was when published in 1994. To say it speaks for itself is an understatement,
- [Remembering Private Snafu](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/06/04/remembering-private-snafu/) - A true historical obscurity, PRIVATE SNAFU was the title character in a series of animated instructional shorts filmed for and shown only to WWII soldiers to instruct them in security, personal hygiene and other issues.
- [Country, Western & Madeleine](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/10/21/country-western-madeleine/) - CONNIE SMITH, HILARY GARDNER and MADELEINE PEYROUX make beautiful music.
- [The Knight of Faith](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/05/16/the-knight-of-faith/) - In his first recordings since his wife's death, MIKE ZITO shares some profound reflections, his own and others'.
- [Elevating Harmony](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/01/08/elevating-harmony/) - On his new symphonic blues-classical hybrid album project, CORKY SIEGEL elevates harmony--musical, inner, social.
- [Motherhood in the Age of Wildfire](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/02/18/motherhood-in-the-age-of-wildfire/) - Courtesy our media partners High Country News, an interview with poet RACHEL RICHARDSON about her new collection,SMOTHER, reflecting on mothering in the age of wildfire
- [In Heavy Rotation: Really the Blues](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/10/26/in-heavy-rotation-really-the-blues/) - A quintet of impressive new blues albums from seasoned vets.
- [Of the Human Heart in Full](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/01/17/of-the-human-heart-in-full/) - THE TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS return with a 'contemporary folk album' that explores the heart in full.
- [In Heavy Rotation: Catching Up on the Blues](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/01/25/in-heavy-rotation-catching-up-on-the-blues/) - A sextet of 2024 blues releases new to our pages and worthy of widespread admiration...
- [DEEP ROOTS ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2023](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/01/05/deep-roots-albums-of-the-year-2023/) - Eleven worthy long players lead our best-of 2023 picks.
- [The Deep Roots Elite Half-Hundred, 2023](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/01/15/the-deep-roots-elite-half-hundred-2023/) - The best of the roots music rest for the year recently completed...
- [In Heavy Rotation: Songwriters & Songs](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/12/07/in-heavy-rotation-songwriters-songs/) - Singers and their songs (some original, some covers): LANCE COWAN, GRAYSON CAPPS and ARLEN ROTH.
- [Still, Still, Still](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/12/21/still-still-still-2/) - MARGARET SLOVAk & CHRIS MARESH, ANGELE DUBEAU & LA PIETA, and OLA GJEILO capature the season's contemplative zeitgeist.
- [Expedition of Discovery](https://deeprootsmag.org/2025/01/06/expedition-of-discovery/) - Daniel. Hope discusses his hidden Irish history and how it shaped his acclaimed Irish Roots album.
- [A Little Lower in Volume, A Little Slower in Speed](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/12/12/a-little-lower-in-volume-a-little-slower-in-speed/) - A baker's dozen from the Pinecastle roster offering rootsy takes on the holiday season.
- [Sometimes a Great Notion…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/12/05/sometimes-a-great-notion/) - How a Goodyear Tire promotional ploy begat an essential Christmas music franchise of 16 years' duration.
- [STOCKING STUFFERS 2024](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/12/11/stocking-stuffers-2024/) - Holiday singles from DAWES, RED CAMEL COLLECTIVE and TORI MARTIN got the season off to a spirited start.
- [It Takes Two…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/12/11/it-takes-two/) - Two great Christmas albums emerged in 1964, and one of the artists in question did it again in '69.
- [Blustery Days? Only Enchantment Here.](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/10/28/blustery-days-only-enchantment-here/) - Enchanted Places: The Complete Fraser-Simpson Settings of A.A. Milne, joins the burgeoning portfolio of Milne poems set to music.
- [The Warmth of Arctic Saxophone](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/01/29/the-warmth-of-arctic-saxophone/) - Haunting and beautiful, ARCTIC SAXOPHONE, by Norway's Ola Asdahl Rokkones, is an unforgettable experience.
- [Engaging Piazzolla, With Flair](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/04/07/engaging-piazzolla-with-flair/) - Clasically trained, the LONDON TANGO QUINTET brings elegance and improvisatory freedom to a tango tribute.
- [Pure, Unrepeatable Magic](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/05/16/pure-unrepeatable-magic/) - In 1938 SHAKESPEARE and RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS met in music, now restored to our ears.
- [Where Grief and Anger Share Space](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/05/22/where-grief-and-anger-share-space/) - This new disc from Toccata Classics features chamber music by the young composer Noah Max and exudes, as one critic notes, 'a sense of loss pervading almost everything here.' Yet, it's not a downer.
- [When Tonality Means a Journey](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/11/18/when-tonality-means-a-journey/) - Bernard Hughes music is both satisfying and challenging to sing, as well as being rewarding for both singer and audience. PRECIOUS THINGS, by the EPIPHONI CONSORT, is a case in point.
- [Lusitano: The First Known Black Composer, Acknowledged With Luminous Clarity](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/12/06/lusitano-the-first-known-black-composer-acknowledged-with-luminous-clarity/) - THE MARIAN CONSORT resurrects the Motets of VICENTE LUSITANO, the first known Black composer and a highly regarded 16th Century music theorist.
- [A World Strange Yet Familiar](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/01/04/a-world-strange-yet-familiar/) - SHINING SHORE explores THREE NOTCH'D ROAD: THE VIRGINIA BAROQUE ENSEMBLE's own heritage, presenting music from the 17th to the 19th centuries that would have been heard in Virginia.
- [Wherein Byzantine Chant Meets Sarum Liturgy](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/02/22/wherein-byzantine-chant-meets-sarum-liturgy/) - CAPPELLA ROMANA uses its 30th album to honor a little-known occasion when the Byzantine Emperor celebrated Christmas at the English court in Eltham, circa 1400 A.D.
- [Inhabiting a World Between](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/03/29/inhabiting-a-world-between/) - On AURA, RUTH McGINLEY and NEIL MARTIN take ten traditional Irish tunes into new and hauntingly evocative territories.
- [Of Heartbreak and Loss, 17th Century-Style](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/06/07/of-heartbreak-and-loss-17th-century-style/) - Countertenor RANDALL SCOTTING and lutenist STEPHEN STUBBS expressively offer songs of heartbreak and loss from yore.
- [The Lost Instruments of Antiquity](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/09/12/the-lost-instruments-of-antiquity/) - ROBERT HUGILL reviews RICHARD BOOTHBY's Alfonso Ferrabosco: Music for the Lyra Viol and JULIAN PERKINS's Handel's Attick: Music for Solo Clavichord
- [A Fresh Perspective on the 'African Mahler'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/04/05/a-fresh-perspective-on-an-american-master/) - CATALYST QUARTET, a young American ensemble, explores the chamber music of SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, works whose sophistication belies their early date
- [The (Continuing) Resurrection of Florence Price](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/05/16/the-continuing-resurrection-of-florence-price/) - Paying loving tribute to pioneering African American composer FLORENCE PRICE, acclaimed pianist SAMANTHA EGE offers FANTASIE NEGRE: THE PIANO MUSIC OF FLORENCE PRICE. Review by ROBERT HUGILL.
- [A Composer Reclaims His Faith](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/10/06/a-composer-reclaims-his-faith/) - Classical editor ROBERT HUGILL considers CALUM BUILDER's 'Messe (You Are Where You Want to Be), a work which deconstructs the Latin mass to explore the composer's own journey, deconstructing and reconstructing his relationship to faith.
- [Where Western Classical Meets Native American Musical Culture](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/10/09/where-western-classical-meets-native-american-musical-culture/) - A citizen of both the United States and of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, composer JEROD IMPICHCHAACHAHA' TATE's music reflects his dual heritage. ROBERT HUGILL offers an informed perspective on this intriguing composer's art.
- [Evoking Afternoons in 17th Century Hereford](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/03/07/evoking-afternoons-in-17th-century-hereford/) - Composer Matthew Locke was born 400 years ago this year, and to mark this occasion the British viol consort FRETWORK are marking the happy occasion with an album featuring seven of Locke's suites that have hitherto barely made a dent in the recorded catalogue.
- [Half-Lights and Misty Streetscapes](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/11/11/half-lights-and-misty-streetscapes/) - 'HALF LIGHTS and MISTY STREETSCAPES': ROBERT HUGILL reviews two introspective, atmospheric, haunting gems: pianist-composer MELISSA PARMENTER's MESSAPICA and the intriguing ECHO COLLECTIVE's THE SEE WITHIN.
- [‘A Wonderfully Grand Way to Hear the Familiar Carols’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/11/16/a-wonderfully-grand-way-to-hear-the-familiar-carols/) - For choral music lovers, two beautiful Christmas albums from British sources: CHRISTMAS FROM WORCESTER BY THE WORCESTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR and CHRISTMAS FROM SELWYN, with the CHAPEL CHOIR OF SELWYN COLLEGE.
- [Robert Hugill’s Classical Christmas Evergreens](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/12/06/robert-hugills-classical-christmas-evergreens/) - ROBERT HUGILL'S CLASSICAL CHRISTMAS is a collection of must-read reviews of Classical Yuletide fare, from choral works to small vocal ensembles, as appraised by Mr. Hugill in Deep Roots from 2013 to the present day. All to make the season merry and bright!
- [The Indefatigable George McPhee](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/02/11/the-indefatigable-george-mcphee/) - The PAISLEY ABBEY CHOIR, with Director GEORGE. MCPHEE, offers the first outstanding choral album of 2021 in A CELTIC PRAYER, a program of choral and organ pieces by Scottish composers of contemporary and 20th Century Scottish sacred music.
- [Nature as The Ultimate Matchmaker](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/10/26/nature-as-the-ultimate-matchmaker/) - THE NORTH WIND WAS A WOMAN, comprised of three intriguing chamber works by DAVID BRUCE, features stirring mandolin work by AVI AVITAL. Review by ROBERT HUGILL.
- ['A Particular Anarchic Brand of Music Theater'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/01/27/a-particular-anarchic-brand-of-music-theater/) - In the spirit of The Residents, London's BASTARD ASSIGNMENTS make their album debut with 'a particular anarchic brand of music theater,' according to our ROBERT HUGILL. Read on....
- [Recovered: The Music of Monteverdi's Teacher](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/04/15/recovered-the-music-of-monteverdis-teacher/) - Not just Monteverdi's teacher: the CHOIR OF GIRTON COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, explores the sacred music of MARC'ANTONIO INGEGNERI. ROBERT HUGILL reviews.
- [Fashioning a More Thoughtful World](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/06/10/fashioning-a-more-thoughtful-world/) - Scottish classical guitarist SEAN SHIBE, playing with lovely clarity and thoughtfulness, adds his own innate sense of the elegant to a trio of BACH lute compositions he has seamlessly transposed to his own instrument.
- [An Influential Recording Returns, And Then Some](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/08/15/an-influential-recording-returns-and-then-some/) - Under the direction of JOHN RUTTER, the CAMBRIDGE SINGERS bring fresh vitality to works by SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD and HERBERT HOWELLS in an expanded reissue of a 1992 classic, STANFORD AND HOWELLS REMEMBERED.
- [Guitar Majesty](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/09/16/guitar-majesty/) - A set of delightfully evocative pieces for guitar duos composed by KEMAL BELEVI comprises a fine new album by DUO TANDEM, incisively reviewed by ROBERT HUGILL
- [A Late-Night Breakfast with Christian Robinson](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/09/07/a-late-night-breakfast-with-christian-robinson/) - Get out the veggies, eggs, and coffee mugs. Illustrator Christian Robinson is visiting for a late-night breakfast. (Why not? Breakfast for dinner! I say.) Given that he's a vegetarian-though he admits he kinda misses his bacon-he enjoys "a really good veggie omelette in the morning, usually with avocado, tomato, spinach, and cheddar. Pancakes or toast
- [One Humanist Touch](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/09/05/twangtown-paramours/) - The second album from singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Mike T. Lewis and his wife and musical partner MaryBeth Zamer–collectively known as the Twangtown Paramours–is a solid advance over the couple’s 2010 debut.
- [The Deep Roots Yuletide Baedeker 2023](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/12/the-deep-roots-yuletide-baedeker-2023/) - So many good things inside--behold the YULETIDE BAEDEKER 2023 edition. All the Christmas you could want!
- [The Deep Roots Yuletide Baedeker 2020](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/11/28/the-deep-roots-yuletide-baedeker-2020/) - Welcome back our CHRISTMAS BAEDEKER, the all-inclusive guide to the best in holiday fare, from movies to cartoons to music to stories behind the songs to Christmas poetry to...well, you name it, we got it! Buon Natale!
- [The Deep Roots Yuletide Baedeker 2021](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/12/02/the-deep-roots-yuletide-baedeker-2021/) - The one, the only, the Deep Roots Yuletide Baedeker for 2022 is hot off the presses. Your guide to everything vital to nourish the spirit during the holiday season--our Christmas best to you!
- [The Christmas Song, Like No Other Christmas Song](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/10/the-christmas-song-like-no-other-christmas-song/) - NAT KING COLE. 'The Christmas Song.' End of story, right? Not quite. There's more where that came from.
- [The Yuletide Report From the Chairman of the Board](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/04/the-yuletide-report-from-the-chairman-of-the-board/) - Revised and updated, this appraisal of Frank Sinatra's Christmas recordings as an art form unto themselves was first published in TheBluegrassSpecial.com in 2008.
- [Jo: The Singular, Special Yuletide Gift](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/11/14/jo-the-singular-special-yuletide-gift/) - An appreciation of JO STAFFORD's holiday magnificence--the gift that keeps on giving.
- [Christmas As He Knew It](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/11/christmas-as-he-knew-it/) - JOHNNY CASH's CLASSIC CHRISTMAS ALBUM is a sampling from the three Yule albums the Man in Black recorded for Columbia Records. Family and faith are the major, moving themes here.
- [Gospel at Christmastime](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/07/gospel-at-christmastime/) - Bob Marovich's overview of gospel music at Yuletide, from the Elkins-Payne Jubilee Singers (1926) to the Edwin Hawkins Family (1985).
- [What Becomes a Classic Most?](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/12/what-becomes-a-classic-most/) - Streisand at her apex in recordings made almost three-and-a-half decades apart. Make no mistake--she’s the classic here, and a classy one at that.
- [When Toby Did Christmas Well](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/11/13/when-toby-did-christmas-well/) - TOBY KEITH is very much alive on the three Christmas albums in his hit-filled catalogue.
- [The Dog Aging Project: All Pooches Invited](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/09/26/the-dog-aging-project-all-pooches-invited/) - 'They age like us." Dr. Daniel Promislaw has some news about your aging canine.
- [Celebrating the Stanford Centenary](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/09/24/celebrating-the-stanford-centenary/) - A century after his passing, CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD gets a grand celebration.
- [Balancing Cultures & Traditions](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/07/18/balancing-cultures-traditions/) - On his third album, Israeli artist SANGRIT continues to advance his multicultural global message.
- [Reflections on Barry Lopez](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/07/07/reflections-on-barry-lopez/) - TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS honors her friend, the late, great nature writer BARRY LOPEZ
- [In Heavy Rotation: LIVEr Than Ever](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/06/04/in-heavy-rotation-liver-than-ever/) - Appraising new live albums by ERIC BIBB, JENNIFER LYNN and GROOVE REVIVAL and CHRISTINE SANTELLI
- [History, Addiction and Community](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/05/17/history-addiction-and-community/) - A Q&A with Pulitzer Prize-nominated author TOMMY ORANGE about his new novel, WANDERING STARS.
- [Ascending: Jazz Trios](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/04/04/ascending-jazz-trios/) - Two fine albums by two of the finest jazz trios extant, led by DAVE STRYKER and ANDY PRATT.
- [Right Now, Right Here, Indispensable](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/01/05/right-now-right-here-indispensable/) - At a time when his eloquence and his conscience are most needed, ERIC BIBB deliver on RIDIN'.
- [‘ArtWork’: Work of Art](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/01/05/artwork-work-of-art/) - Attention must be paid: At age 86, JACK JONES offers a masterpiece in ARTWORK.
- [Right On Time, Indeed](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/03/25/right-on-time-indeed/) - Daring to change, CHATHAM COUNTY LINE is renewed and reinvigorated to the nth degree on HIYO
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/04/02/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-48/) - Gospel picks with a World Music flavor dominate Bob Marovich's latest hot platters...
- [Where’s the Wayback Machine?](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/02/29/wheres-the-wayback-machine/) - Set the Wayback Machine for the '20s and '30s Jazz era and take a wondrous journey with THE PALOMAR TRIO.
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Singles Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/02/29/bob-marovichs-gospel-singles-picks/) - CECE WINANS and DEITRICK HADDON lead the Gospel Singles reviews by BOB MAROVICH.
- [Burnishing the Legacy](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/01/27/burnishing-the-legacy/) - KEVIN BURT will having you hearing the great songs of BILL WITHERS with new ears.
- [To Seek a Better World](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/01/29/to-seek-a-better-world/) - On its new album, U.K. collective DON KIPPER offers music taut with intention to meet the moment.
- [Coasting With the Blues](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/01/27/coasting-with-the-blues/) - THE NICK MOSS BAND with DENNIS GRUENLING spans the continent on one of its finest outings.
- [Time to Settle the Old Account](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/01/06/time-to-settle-the-old-account/) - SYLVIA TYSON closes a legendary career with her finest solo effort, AT THE END OF THE DAY.
- [The Many Narratives of the Buffalo](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/01/27/the-many-narratives-of-the-buffalo/) - In his new project, Richard Two Bulls documents the buffalo's restoration and a language's revival.
- [Being About a Compelling ‘Narrative’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/01/11/being-about-a-compelling-narrative/) - Sixteen tracks—some with multiple parts—showcasing the works of a group of female artists born between 1814 and 1970.
- [Somewhere (Pause) Bright](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/01/11/somewhere-pause-bright/) - With the EP EDGES OF SILVER, DULCIE TAYLOR solidifies her standing in the upper tier of Americana songwriters
- [Aiming for Higher Ground](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/10/05/aiming-for-higher-ground/) - A stirring new live album from young blues sensation CHRISTONE 'KINGFISH' INGRAM and a fine new solo outing from his producer, TOM HAMBRIDGE.
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2024/01/05/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-47/) - A 2023 gospel wrapup includes TODD DULANEY, EDDY MANN and PARCHMAN STATE PRISON's singing inmates.
- [Inside the Farm Sanctuary Movement](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/08/24/inside-the-farm-sanctuary-movement/) - For nearly 40 years, GENE BAUR's FARM SANCTUARY has been pushing back against the abuses of factory farming. The fight goes on, as Baur explains to DUNCAN STRAUSS.
- [Tell It On the Mountain, Indeed](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/12/04/tell-it-on-the-mountain-indeed/) - Gospel, jazz and Classical merge spectacularly on JOHN PAUL MCGEE's A GOSPEJAZZICAL CHRISTMAS
- [Still, Still, Still](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/12/18/still-still-still/) - An 18-song CD sampling of a great Christmas anthology series (from Goodyear Tire) once on vinyl only
- [Christmas Stocking Stuffers 2023](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/22/christmas-stocking-stuffers-2024/) - Yuletide bluegrass from CRANDALL CREEK, TROY ENGLE and THE KODY NORRIS SHOW.
- [It Could Always Happen Again…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/27/it-could-always-happen-again/) - BILLY ALTMAN, at the Music + Revolution concert at Carnegie Hall, finds out where all the protest songs have gone.
- [Being About an Aural Feast at Yuletide](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/12/06/being-about-an-aural-feast-at-yuletide/) - A vintage seasonal classic from 2011: The BRASS BAND OF BATTLE CREEK gets to the heart of the Yuletide.
- [A Yuletide Evergreen Grows Here](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/22/a-yuletide-evergreen-grows-here/) - LISA BIALES's first holiday album may become essential to keeping Christmas well in our time ahead. Hearing is believing.
- [Dig The Unconventional Yule](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/29/dig-the-unconventional-yule/) - Being an unconventioal Yule with BIG HARP GEORGE, and a fine new blues Christmas anthology, JINGLE ALL THE WAY.
- [In Heavy Rotation: Blues, Soul Blues, Blazing Rock ‘n’ Roll](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/14/in-heavy-rotation-blues-soul-blues-blazing-rock-n-roll/) - Fresh sounds from BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, JOHNNY RAWLS & BRIAN SETZER
- [Mavs Make Christmas Merry](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/22/mavs-make-christmas-merry/) - Ho-ho-ho, who wouldn't go...to hear MAVERICKS rock some new and some familiar Yule tunes? Count us in!
- [Suave, Like Nobody’s Business](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/12/18/suave-like-nobodys-business/) - We redress a great wrong in finally reviewing RAUL MALO's 2007 Christmas masterpiece, Marshmallow World + Other Holiday Favorites. This Yuletide essential is so suave it even offers 'Silver Bells' as a tango. Believe it.
- [DEEP ROOTS ALBUMS OF THE YEAR, 2022](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/01/10/deep-roots-albums-of-the-year-2022/) - Honors for 2022 go to JOHN PRIMER, MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY & RYAN MURPHEY, RORY BLOCK, THE TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS, CORKY SIEGEL'S CHAMBER BLUES and six others.
- [The Holidays, With Ease](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/13/the-holidays-with-ease/) - SAMARA JOY, a double Grammy nominee, brightens the Yule season with her new EP, A JOYFUL HOLIDAY
- [Classic Bennett is Classic Christmas](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/10/classic-bennett-is-classic-christmas/) - Doing justice to TONY BENNETT's full body of Christmas musical art crafted between 1968 and 2008.
- ['Coventry Carol': The Darkest of All Christmas Songs](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/09/coventry-carol-the-darkest-of-all-christmas-songs/) - Lamenting the Slaughter of the Innocents in the 12th Century, “Coventry Carol” remains a somber standard.
- [‘Once in Royal David's City’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/09/once-in-royal-davids-city/) - The journey of 'Once in Royal David's City' from an 1848 text to global processional hymn.
- [A League of Their Own](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/09/a-league-of-their-own/) - Hailed as 'so very inventive and so very weird,' THE VENTURES' CHRISTMAS ALBUM is a true holiday treasure.
- [And a Wonderland It Is…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/09/and-a-wonderland-it-is/) - On WINTER WONDERLAND, GEORGE GEE leads his Swing Orchestra on a festive romp through Yuletide favorites, with a twist...
- [A-Caroling They Go](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/08/a-caroling-they-go-2/) - From 2011, our interview with MARSHA GENENSKY of ANONYMOUS 4 centered on the group's five Medieval Christmas albums.
- [The Man With All the Toys](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/08/the-man-with-all-the-toys-3/) - With four Christmas albums to his credit, BRIAN SETZER and his ORCHESTRA occupy rarified air in the holiday music realm.
- [The Greatest Gift](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/12/21/the-greatest-gift/) - A solo acoustic guitar masterpiece, DAVID WOOD's A CHRISTMAS GIFT captures the true spirit of the season as few Yuletide efforts ever have. Originally recorded for family and friends, it's a gift to the world now..
- [Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That String!](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/01/09/dont-mean-a-thing-if-it-aint-got-that-string/) - Canada's THE SULTANS OF STRING and their guests put a new spin on the spirit of the season, but it's is still the spirit we’ve known for bringing good tidings of great joy. Dig the best Christmas album of the 2017 Yuletide season.
- [The King Keeps Christmas Well](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/07/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.
- [Vintage Cool Yule](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/11/05/vintage-cool-yule/) - Revised & Updated for 2023: A Cool Yule With LOUIS ARMSTRONG, BING CROSBY & THE ANDREWS SISTERS.
- [Dear Santa Claus](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/10/30/dear-santa-claus/) - From 1901, a collection of charming holiday stories for boys and girls. They don't write 'em like they used to
- [Children of Christmas](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/10/30/children-of-christmas/) - From Project Gutenberg, acclaimed poet EDITH M. THOMAS's 1907 collection of Yuletide verse written with the younger set in mind.
- [Wherein Vintage Becomes Timeless](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/10/30/wherein-vintage-becomes-timeless/) - Marking the occasion of DAVID IAN and his VINTAGE CHRISTMAS TRIO releasing a thoughtful new Yuletide long-player, its fourth in toto.
- [A Quick Delivery of Yuletide Joy](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/10/27/a-quick-delivery-of-yuletide-joy/) - At only 18 minutes in length, BALSAM RANGE's 2017 Christmas EP, IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME, is memorable, moving and succinct.
- [Turn the Volume Down on Living](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/10/13/turn-the-volume-down-on-living/) - Like a bluegrass and folk version of Our Town, DARYL MOSLEY's A LIFE WELL LIVED limns the hopes and dreams of a small town populace of his own making.
- [A Christmas Classic For A Nuclear Armageddon](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/10/20/a-christmas-classic-for-a-nuclear-armageddon-2/) - The classic DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR, inspired by the Cuban Missile Crisis, was intended as 'a prayer for peace.' The story behind the story herein.
- [Coventry Carol (Lully, lullay): Twists and Turns](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/22/conventry-carol-the-slaughter-of-the-innocents/) - The ancient origins and twists and turns in the evolution of 'COVENTRY CAROL (Lully, lullay)," one of the most plaintive of sacred seasonal songs
- [The Soft, The Warm, The Syncopated Yule](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/12/18/christmas-stocking-stuffers/) - A trifecta of outstanding stocking stuffers for this--and every--Yuletide season: AMBER WEEKES's THE GATHERING; ROBERT PRESTA & ADRIANA SAMARGIA's FIRST SNOW; and RALLY 'ROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE, PARAGON RAGTIME ORCHESTRA
- [A Bluer Shade of Christmas](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/11/15/a-bluer-shade-of-christmas/) - An update of our 2019 review of four essential Christmas blues anthologies: Volumes 1-3 of BLUES, BLUES CHRISTMAS and Legacy Recordings' DEATH MIGHT BE YOUR SANTA CLAUS.--a bluer shade of Christmas, if you will.
- [In All Weathers, Glad Tidings](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/12/02/in-all-weathers-glad-tidings/) - The Persuasions were just not any group of a cappella practitioners--they were the best, solid in every way, with lead singer Jerry Lawson standing out as one of the great singers of his time. The group's Christmas album, like the group itself, should be cherished.
- [Animated Christmas Classics](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/10/19/animated-christmas-classics/) - Christmas classics from the inkwell including Peace on Earth (1939), The Insects' Christmas (1913), and the first Frosty (1953).
- [A Classic Animated Christmas](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/12/11/a-classic-animated-christmas/) - From the vaults, classics indeed: 1939's 'Peace on Earth,' the only cartoon ever nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize; from 1913, Ladislas Starevitch's pioneering and amazing stop-motion animated 'The Insects' Revenge' (plus a profile of the filmmaker), the first animated 'Frosty the Snowman' (1953), 'Suzy Snowflake' (1951) and 'Hardrock, Coco and Joe' (1951).
- [A Christmas Dialogue Continues](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/13/a-christmas-dialogue-continues/) - Consider Classic as the next installment of Martina McBride’s ongoing dialogue with Christmas, and a fairly scintillating one at that. It earns its title.
- [Animated Christmas Evergreens](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/11/animated-christmas-evergreens/) - A selection of vintage animated Christmas cartoons, from the 1930s to the 1990s, including the rare 'A Snow Man in July,' produced by the Nazi regime and seized by the U.S. during WWII.
- [Where Gentle Grace Abides](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/04/24/where-gentle-grace-abides/) - A pandemic project with remote parts pieced together seamlessly, STEVE DAWSON's EYES CLOSED DREAMING is heartfelt and inspired.
- [Venture Forth!](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/07/20/venture-forth/) - Filmed during the band's 60th anniversary year, THE VENTURES: STARS ON GUITARS is a loving, long-overdue tribute to rock 'n' roll's greatest instrumental group.
- [Wonders Never Cease](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/09/14/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.
- [The Elite Half Hundred of 2014 (Part 1)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/30/elite-half-hundred-2014-part-1/) - THE ELITE HALF HUNDRED OF 2014 (PART 1)--Numbers 1-25 of our half hundred best albums of 2014, excluding the Albums of the Year
- [Summer Song](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/08/09/summer-song/) - An offbeat playlist for season's end featuring THE DAKOTAS, THE DEL VIKINGS, THE CRESTS, THE PHAROS and THE SPOTNIKS. Surf's Up!
- [The String and The Source](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/11/03/the-string-and-the-source/) - On Néo, KAORU WATANABE celebrates 'going upward, connecting to the divine...the unity that binds us to something greater.' It's the master Taiko multi-instrumentalist/composer's finest hour.
- [Speaking of Family and Cultural Identity](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/06/21/speaking-family-cultural-identity/) - An exclusive JULES interview with award winning illustrator JUANA MARTINEZ NEAL, whose new picture book, ALMA AND HOW SHE GOT HER NAME, celebrates cultural identity.
- [And Magic Slim Says 'Well Done'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/03/31/and-magic-slim-says-well-done/) - JOHN PRIMER is on fire in paying tribute to hid former boss, Magic Slim, with the surviving Teardrops and Slim's son, SHAWN HOLT, on the blues giant's latest outing.
- [In Heavy Rotation: Ladies Sing the Blues (and More)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/09/20/in-heavy-rotation-ladies-sing-the-blues-and-more/) - Must-hear new CDs from TRACY NELSON, JEWEL BROWN, BARBARA BLUE and LIBBY YORK
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/09/20/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-46/) - New gospel CDs for the heart and soul from MINISTER KAI BROWN, KELL BAILEY, KONAI ADELPHE, EARNEST PUGH, PAUL PORTER & THE CHRISTIANAIRES
- [Dadaji’s Paintbrush: A Thing of Beauty](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/09/15/dadajis-paintbrush-a-thing-of-beauty/) - In which JULES hails ‘Dadaji’s Paintbrush,’ an open-hearted and tender intergenerational story of a boy and his grandfather in India, as ‘a thing of beauty’
- [Here He Is](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/07/07/here-he-is/) - BILLY ALTMAN considers what PAUL SIMON has wrought on the seven interwoven tracks of SEVEN PSALMS.
- [The Pelican Warning](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/03/03/the-pelican-warning/) - DUNCAN STRAUSS checks in with another scoop: an interview with DUNCAN P. FORGEY, author of FLYIN' KAI: A PELICAN'S TALE complete with a warning about climate change.
- [Healing and Connecting to Something Beyond](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/07/10/healing-and-connecting-to-something-beyond/) - Honoring lost friends and their own connectedness, FAITH i BRANKO return with Serbian-Romani flair on DUHAVI.
- [Dynamic Duos](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/06/21/dynamic-duos/) - Hotter than hot: new duo albums teaming MIKE ZITO with ALBERT CASTIGLIA, and ARLEN ROTH with JERRY JEMMOTT, Rock 'n' roll, classic soul and blues to burn.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/06/27/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-45/) - New, socially conscious outpourings from JONATHAN BUTLER and RAY CURENTON plus Praise & Worship live house wreckers from BETHANY MUSIC. Amen!
- [The Right Touch](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/06/21/the-right-touch/) - FLORENCE PRICE and MAX BRUCH violin concertos memorably interpreted by RANDALL GOOSBY, YANNICK NEZET-SEGUIN and the PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
- [Keep on Pushin'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/06/07/keep-on-pushin/) - On CANVAS, NATALIE MACMASTER and DONNELL LEAHY, a true musical power couple, continue stretching stylistic boundaries in surprising ways. O, Canada!
- [Walt Disney, Surf Cartoon Pioneer](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/06/12/walt-disney-surf-cartoon-pioneer/) - In 1937 WALT DISNEY produced the first animated surfing cartoon, HAWAIIAN HOLIDAY, featuring Mickey, Minnie, Donald and, in an influential star turn, GOOFY.
- [Ken Burns on ‘The American Buffalo’ and Indigenous Histories](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/06/09/ken-burns-on-the-american-buffalo-and-indigenous-histories/) - KEN BURNS discusses his latest production with NICK MARTIN, a senior editor for HIGH COUNTRY NEWS' Indigenous Affairs desk.
- [Softly and Tenderly. Pass It On.](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/04/23/softly-and-tenderly-pass-it-on/) - MARIE LACEY's new album is a scintillating mix of southern gospel and African-American gospel songs frequently adopted by southern gospel singers.
- [Graffiti, Hip-Hop & Misfit-ness](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/06/07/graffiti-hip-hop-misfit-ness/) - In praise of graffiti-inspired illustrator THEODORE TAYLOR III, in his own book, OFF THE WALL, and in WHEN THE BEAT WAS BORN, the story of DJ Kool Herc.
- [Voices Out of the Shadows](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/04/24/voices-out-of-the-shadows/) - Continuing to champion the work of women composers, RAPHAELA GROMES delivers a double-CD triumph in FEMMES.
- [Jorma, Janis & The Typewriter Tape: The Facts](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/04/10/jorma-janis-the-typewriter-tape-the-facts/) - The legendary TYPEWRITER TAPE, featuring young JANIS JOPLIN singing, and young UC Santa Clara student Jorma Kaukonen on guitar, is now an official release.
- [The Final Breakfast: 
Sophie Blackall on Farmhouse](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/03/31/the-final-breakfast-sophie-blackall-on-farmhouse/) - JULES hosts her final Seven Impossible Things breakfast, with author SOPHIE BLACKALL who tells of a 'falling-down house' that yielded the unexpected treasures she ruminates on in FARMHOUSE.
- [Updike at Easter (2023 Edition)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/03/31/updike-at-easter-2023-edition/) - Reflections on JOHN UPDIKE's provocative poem 'Seven Stanzas at Easter,' in this 12th installment of our annual feature.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/03/31/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-44/) - DA' T.R.U.T.H. rebrands powerfully by using his birth name, EMANUEL as the title of his stirring new album; quartets are alive and very well on the VOICES OF QUARTET, VOL. 1 anthology.
- [Sevdah, From Mostar to the World](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/03/29/sevdah-from-mostar-to-the-world/) - Sevdah, traditional folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina given a modern spin by Mostar Sevdah Reunion and lead vocalist Antonija Batincv
- [In The Prime Time Mood](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/03/07/in-the-prime-time-mood/) - DAVE STRYKER's first studio album with his trio will get you in the mood.
- [In Heavy Rotation: Blues & Soul From Near and Far](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/01/12/in-heavy-rotation-blues-soul-from-near-and-far/) - The latest soul from DAVE PORTER's vault; blues from CRYSTAL SHAWANDA and TERESA JAMES (via the BEATLES), and blistering blues-rock from STEVE HILL.
- [THE DEEP ROOTS ELITE HALF-HUNDRED of 2022](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/01/19/the-deep-roots-elite-half-hundred-of-2022/) - The Best of the Rest for 2022...winners all!
- [The Wolf in Its Own Clothing](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/02/27/the-wolf-in-its-own-clothing/) - ERICA BERRY's new book, WOLFISH, attempts to shed light on how the species is a stand-in for fear. Review by Mike Berry.l
- [Fisk Jubilee Singers: From Whipping Post to Throne Room](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/02/17/fisk-jubilee-singers-from-whipping-post-to-throne-room/) - The early struggles and ultimate triumph of the FISK JUBILEE SINGERS, as reported by JAMES M. TROTTER in his 1878 book profiling 'remarkable musicians of the colored race.' '
- [Me and the Boss](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/01/27/me-and-the-boss/) - MICHELLE EDWARDS's ME AND THE BOSS is subtitlted "A Story About Mending and Love." For young readers, it's so much more. Illustrations by APRIL HARRISON.
- [The Land Remembers](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/01/29/the-land-remembers/) - A new biography resurrects the enduring achievements of conservation writer BERNARD DEVOTO and his activist wife AVIS.
- [The Blues Boss Goes Global](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/01/18/the-blues-boss-goes-global/) - Paying tribute to MEMPHIS SLIM and WILLIE DIXON, KENNY 'BLUES BOSS' WAYNE, now 77 and better than ever, delivers on all fronts on his latest outing.
- [New Version of Ukrainian Carol Supports Refugee Center](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/12/07/new-version-of-ukrainian-carol-supports-refugee-center/) - A joint effort by composer ROXANNA PANUFNIK and Signum Classics to raise funds for the U.K.-based REFUGEE CENTER
- [Again the Heart With Rapture Glows](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/12/09/again-the-heart-with-rapture-glows/) - The NEW YORK CITY CHILDREN'S CHOIR summons the solemnity and joy of the Christmas season in CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK, a work of inestimable beauty
- [Hope Is the Thing With Feathers](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/12/30/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers/) - As birds go, so goes humanity. Three nominally classical albums poetically address the looming threats to the natural world.
- [Hey, Colorado](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/12/27/hey-colorado/) - HONEY DON'T returns with its first new album in nearly eight years, and it's a gem. THREADBARE finds songwriter BILL POWERS at his peak, and the band speaking to a larger moment.
- [A Man and A Woman](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/01/06/a-man-and-a-woman/) - MELODY GARDOT and pianist PHILIPPE POWELL meets outside the frame and make beautiful music together on ENTRE EUX DEUX
- [The Deep Roots Yuletide Baedeker v2022](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/11/28/the-deep-roots-yuletide-baedeker-v2022/) - It's back! The Deep Roots 2022 Yuletide Baedeker is updated and ready for prime time.
- [Church Music as Catalyst for Change](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/01/06/church-music-as-catalyst-for-change/) - BISHOP WILLIAM MURPHY embraces the responsibility of social leadership through music ministry on WORSHIP & JUSTICE, recorded live in Atlanta.
- [Let the Hard Times Roll…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2023/01/03/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.
- [In Praise of Those Who Keep Christmas Well](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/12/15/in-praise-of-those-who-keep-christmas-well/) - Believe the Hype: Wherein we appraise four truly classic Christmas albums + one bonus, by ELLA FITZGERALD, PEGGY LEE, CHARLES BROWN, STAN KENTON & SIDNEY BECHET
- [In Heavy Rotation: Blues, Country & Country Blues](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/12/06/in-heavy-rotation-blues-country-country-blues/) - AL BASILE, DAILEY & VINCENT (with guest vocalist RHONDA VINCENT) and HANK WILLIAMS JR.
- [A Super Deluxe Charlie Brown Christmas](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/12/05/a-super-deluxe-charlie-brown-christmas/) - A 4-CD/1-Blu ray audio deluxe package featuring dozens of VINCE GUARALDI TRIO outtakes from the soundtrack sessions
- [Helping Animals That Can't Help Themselves](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/02/27/helping-animals-that-cant-helpthemselves/) - JULIE CASTLE, accidental employee turned CEO of Best Friends Animal Society, is spearheading a national movement to to persuade animal shelters to become no-kill by 2025. DUNCAN STRAUSS has the inside story.
- [The Holly & The Ivy: A Small Gem](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/12/07/the-holly-the-ivy-a-small-gem/) - A different kind of Christmas movie, no less moving for the nuanced role Christmas actually plays in the story. DVD now available.
- [In Trim: Bruce Brown's Endless Epic](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/06/11/in-trim-bruce-browns-endless-epic/) - Writing for Longboard magazine in 2005, PAUL HOLMES captured the entire epic saga of the making of BRUCE BROWN's THE ENDLESS SUMMER.
- [Ought It Not To Be a Merry Christmas?](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/11/28/ought-it-not-to-be-a-merry-christmas/) - CHRISTMAS DURING THE CIVIL WAR: 'Even with all the sorrow that will forever hang, over so many households; ought it not to be, and is it not, a merry Christmas?'
- [No Goofy Exercise](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/12/01/no-goofy-exercise/) - TONY WRAY & TIM CROUCH are back, delightfully so, with A DREAM IS A WISH: A SPECIAL ACOUSTIC TRIBUTE TO THE MAGIC KINGDOM.
- [Chamber Blues on a Higher Plane](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/11/30/chamber-blues-on-a-higher-plane/) - CORKY SIEGEL'S CHAMBER BLUES offers a blues-classical-world music fusion that reveals its depth on first blush and then burrows deeper.
- [Somewhere There is Morningtown, Many Miles Away](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/12/05/somewhere-there-is-morningtown-many-miles-away/) - Holiday albums by THE SEEKERS and JUDITH DURHAM praised and appraised. God bless us all, every one!
- [Leave Her To Heaven (1945)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/04/20/leave-her-to-heaven-1945/) - Directed by John M. Stahl with vivid cinematography by Leon Shamroy, LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, a 1945 film noir entry, features beautiful GENE TIERNEY at her most captivating.
- [Salt of the Earth (1954)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/02/28/salt-of-the-earth-1954/) - In 1954 a group of blacklisted filmmakers made the first blacklisted film in American history, SALT OF THE EARTH. Centered on a strike by Mexican-American workers in New Mexico, it is ever more timely now.
- [She'll Take You There](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/11/25/shell-take-you-there-2/) - RORY BLOCK returns in celebration of "power women of song" on AIN'T NOBODY WORRIED--a thoroughly captivating outpouring of signature songs by female artists from the '60s through the '80sl
- [This Very Tree, The Survivor Tree & A Hundred Thousand Welcomes](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/09/01/this-very-tree-the-survivor-tree-a-hundred-thousand-welcomes/) - On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America, our acclaimed kids' lit blogger, JULES, finds fresh perspectives for young readers in three new books, two specifically addressing the World Trade Center attacks, another offering 'a love song to our shared humanity.'
- [The Heart of the Matter](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/11/28/the-heart-of-the-matter/) - Pop, soul and doo-wop come together on 23-year-old CHRIS RUGGIERO's first Christmas album. Underneath Ruggiero's impressive voice is something else: pure, unadulterated heart.
- [The Beauty of Belle at Yuletide](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/11/26/the-beauty-of-belle-at-yuletide/) - By Robert M. Marovich MY COLORFUL CHRISTMAS Regina Belle Tashi3 Entertainment/Altavoz Distribution http://iamreginabelle.com/ My Colorful Christmas, the first yuletide album from GRAMMY Awardee Regina Belle, and issued on her own imprint, Tashi3 Entertainment, traverses mostly familiar holiday fare. Traditional carols and more recently composed Christmas songs receive bubbly jazz and R&B arrangements
- [Wherein Murph Lights Out for the Horizon, Yet Again](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/11/17/wherein-murph-lights-out-for-the-horizon-yet-again/) - MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY, collaborating with son RYAN MURPHEY, rises to every challenge he sets for himself on ROAD BEYOND THE VIEW, a standout among many in his extensive catalogue.
- [Christmas in Verse, 2021](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/02/christmas-verse-2014/) - Timeless Christmas poems by ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, DOLLIE RADFORD, ROBERT SOUTHWELL, et al. plus Christmas music videos featuring THE POGUES, THE PRETENDERS, THE ROYAL GUARDSMEN, THE SALSOUL ORCHESTRA and THE SUPREMES.
- [The Man With All the Toys](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/11/15/the-man-with-all-the-toys-2/) - Updated for Yuletide 2020, BRIAN SETZER's 2015 holiday gem, ROCKIN' RUDOLPH, shows off the master showman and ace guitarist at his best, along with his hard-working, gifted elves (the Orchestra), rocks and croons masterfully on beloved seasonal evergreens.
- [The Murky Origins & Everlasting Life of ‘Jingle Bells’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/06/the-murky-origins-everlasting-life-of-jingle-bells/) - In 1850 JAMES LORD PIERPONT, inspired by one-horse open-sleigh races in his home town, wrote a Thanksgiving ditty for his father's Sunday School class. Thus the humble origin of 'Jingle Bells.'
- [Transcending Avant-Garde Boundaries](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/11/19/transcending-avant-garde-boundaries/) - On the rediscovered gem Bílé Inferno, Czech artists Iva Bittová and Vladimír Václavek transcend the avant-garde with music emanating from physical and emotional ecosystems.
- [To Dream Like an Angel](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/11/17/to-dream-like-an-angel-2/) - Under the direction of BERNARD LABADIE, LA CHAPELLE DE QUEBEC's THE ROAD TO CHRISTMAS will light your way, all through the days--nay, years--ahead.
- [Restoring Harmony in Discordant Times](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/11/18/restoring-harmony-in-discordant-times/) - Led by Amaan Ali Bangash, the musicians on MUSIC FOR HOPE comprise a cross-cultural collaboration demonstrating harmony in discordant times.
- [Fresh Utterances of Life Force](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/11/17/fresh-utterances-of-life-force/) - A gospel, classical and jazz hybrid comprised of original songs by pianist JOHN PAUL MCGEE and stirring, even surprising interpretations of ever-relevant warhorses.
- [Always More Love to Be Had](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/04/10/always-more-love-to-be-had/) - The TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS are back with their third album, DOUBLE DOWN ON A BAD THING, with well-wrought songs, sparkling musicianship, affecting vocals and a deeper exploration of the nuances of relationships. It ain't over 'til it's over.
- [‘I Try To Write a Terrific Song’<br />Hal David: In His Own Words](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/09/11/i-try-to-write-a-terrific-songhal-david-in-his-own-words/) - Saluting the magnificent artistry of the late HAL DAVID, who, with and apart from Burt Bacharach, spoke volumes about the human condition in his captivating, unforgettable lyrics—truly a voice for all time.
- [Always Sweethearts In Song](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/10/11/always-sweethearts-in-song/) - As The Canadian Sweethearts, Bob Regan and Lucille Starr never had big hits during their prime years of 1963-1967, but they made wonderful records in a folk-country vein, with some straight-ahead honky tonkers spicing up their repetoire. Lucille also provided the yodeling voice of Pearl Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies, in addition to carving out a successful solo career after she and Bob split up.
- [A Thanksgiving Celebration in Song](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/11/12/a-thanksgiving-celebration-in-song/) - Reflections on Thanksgiving in song. Music by Larry Yazzie and the Native Pride Dancers, Douglas Spotted Eagle, Johnny Cash, Mary Chapin Carpenter, George Winston, Celtic Women and, by way of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, Vince Guaraldi.
- [When Patti Page Left Her Mark On Me](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/01/15/when-patti-page-left-her-mark-on-me/) - WHEN PATTI PAGE LEFT HER MARK ON ME: A sweet childhood memory of a chance encounter with Patti Page--radiant, with a scent of roses--in front of her parents' home in Tulsa. By David McGee
- [When Robert Mitchum Was Like So…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/02/12/when-robert-mitchum-was-like-so/) - In 1957, while filming in Trinidad with director John Huston, ROBERT MITCHUM became obsessed with Calypso music, so much so that he made an entire album of it, for Capitol, with Johnny Mercer's blessing. It's good stuff. Let's have a look/listen.
- [George Beverly Shea Turns 104, Honored with Graham Library Exhibit](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/02/28/george-beverly-shea-turns-104-honored-with-graham-library-exhibit/) - An indispensable component of Billy Graham's Crusades with his ministry in song, GEORGE BEVERLY SHEA, a towering figure in 20th Century gospel music, turned 104 on Feb. 1. A look back at a life writ large.
- [Gone Home](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/03/13/gone-home/) - A tribute to Alvin Lee, who walked away from the mammoth success of Ten Years After to pursue his solo muse. A true '60s guitar legend, Lee passed away on March 6.
- [Saluting Jonathan Winters](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/04/16/saluting-jonathan-winters/) - We lost a true original with the April 11 passing of JONATHAN WINTERS, an improvisational comedy genius (and author, actor, artist). In VIDEO FILE, we look back on a few of his many special moments.
- [‘A Perfect Blue-White Diamond, And Just As Rare’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/05/15/a-perfect-blue-white-diamond-and-just-as-rare/) - Remembering the silver screen's, and one of the 20th Century's, greatest vocalists, DEANNA DURBIN, 1921-2013, plus a guide to her essential recordings on CD.
- [‘He Brought a Certain Level of Class to the Blues’: Remembering Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, 1930-2013](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/he-brought-a-certain-level-of-class-to-the-blues-remembering-bobby-blue-bland-1930-2013/) - American music lost a giant with the passing of BOBBY 'BLUE' BLAND. Our tribute offers an overview of his career and a guide to his essential recordings.
- [Softly, As She Leaves Us](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/13/softly-as-she-leaves-us/) - Style and Substance: Remembering EYDIE GORME + a potpourri of her essential recordings
- [As the Bluebird Flies…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/26/as-the-bluebird-flies/) - MARVIN RAINWATER wrote and recorded many fine records in his career, and one perfect one: 1957's mega-hit 'GONNA FIND ME A BLUEBIRD.' Tribute must be paid.
- [From Matt Monro With Love (and tears) on Valentine's Day](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/02/14/matt-monro-love-tears-valentines-day/) - Love songs of tears and joy for Valentine's Day and beyond, courtesy the late, great MATT MONRO, who was championed and produced by GEORGE MARTIN. A profile with music.
- [Dame Kiri Turns 70, Bids Farewell to Opera (But That's Not All, Folks)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/03/06/dame-kiri-turns-70-bids-farewell-opera-thats-folks/) - Celebrating her 70th birthday today, DAME KIRI TE KANAWA is appearing at Covent Garden in a Donizetti farce--her last opera role, she says. But it's not the last we'll hear of her. Deep Roots pays tribute to a great.
- [It's So Hard to Say Goodbye](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/08/11/hard-say-goodbye/) - Sometimes the viewer comments on YouTube are surprisingly poignant and heartfelt. We found a few when we followed BOBBY VINTON's 'Blue on Blue' deeper into YouTube and deeper into sad songs.
- [Remembering Jeff Golub, 1955-2015](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/12/remembering-jeff-golub-1955-2015/) - Remembering Jeff Golub: Honoring the life and celebrating the music he made before leaving this mortal coil on New Year's Day.
- [Stranger On the Shore](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/06/21/stranger-on-the-shore/) - In 1962 British jazz clarinetist ACKER BILK penned a haunting instrumental for his daughter Jenny, changed its title and saw it sell a million copies. Here's how YouTube commenters remember it.
- [You Can't Do That? You Can Do That.](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/10/19/you-cant-do-that-you-can-do-that/) - Jazz improvisation meets Lennon-McCartney in tasty fashion on LOREN DANIELS's TICKET TO RIDE.
- [Bring ‘em Home: The Incompleat Listener’s Guide to Pete Seeger on Record](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/29/bring-em-home-incompleat-listeners-guide-pete-seeger-record/) - PETE SEEGER's album catalogue tally comes close to 100--so many we dare not suggest the 'essential' ones. So, how about some invaluable long players worthy of any collection? Part 2 of our Pete Seeger tribute.
- [Jennie Ross Cobb: Indian Territory Trailblazer](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/05/24/jennie-ross-cobb-indian-territory-trailblazer/) - Remembering JENNIE ROSS COBB, the first-known Native American female photographer, who put her subjects at ease for uniquely candid images from early 1900s Indian Territory.
- [The Emotional Lives of Wolves](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/08/06/the-emotional-lives-of-wolves/) - From High Country News, a review of 'Wolf whisperer' RICK MCINTYRE's third in a series of novels centered on the emotional lives of the Yellowstone alpha wolves,
- [An Atmosphere Around the Moon?](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/01/23/atmosphere-around-moon/) - Water on the Moon? New research suggests billions of years ago the Moon had an atmosphere composed primarily of carbon monoxide, sulfur and water, much like that of Mars today. And where there is water...
- [Kathleen Edwards Returns, Triumphantly and With Animals](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/11/10/kathleen-edwards-returns-triumphantly-and-with-animals/) - KATHLEEN EDWARDS returns from a lengthy, self-imposed sabbatical to reclaim the high singer-songwriter ground she conquered in 2003. Her new album, TOTAL FREEDOM, says much about where she's been, and memorably so. A dog, and birds, figure into her return. DUNCAN STRAUSS investigates.
- [A Fellow Romanian Remembers Dinu Lipatti](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/02/12/a-fellow-romanian-remembers-dinu-lipatti/) - On Piano Music of Dinu Lipatti, one Romanian virtuoso, pianist LUIZA BORAC, pays tribute to another, the late DINU LIPATTI (1917-1950), in selections of his works performed on the composer's own favored Bechstein instrument.
- [For All He Gave, and For Giving His All](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/09/11/for-all-he-gave-and-for-giving-his-all/) - An in-depth tribute to one of the finest singers-songwriters-guitarists-producers of his time, JOE SOUTH, who died of a heart attack on September 5. He always said what he meant and meant what he said. Yeah!
- [Take That, Mr. Ed](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/10/12/take-that-mr-ed/) - Duncan Strauss, host of NPR's Talking Animals, visits with Dr. Edie Dopking, founder of Quantum Leap Farm, a non-profit operation with a special emphasis on providing horse therapy for veterans, military members and their families.
- [Ruminating About Sandy](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/11/04/ruminating-about-sandy/) - If you've ever lived through a catastrophe in which you lost everything (in my case, a house I lived in burned to the ground and I walked away with only my cat and the coat on my back-and the coat was stolen the next day!) you know that living through that moment is very painful indeed. But looking back you realize that things do come back.
- [Serena Matthews Does ‘Moon River’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/01/02/serena-matthews-does-moon-river/) - Deep Roots fave SERENA MATTHEWS kicked off the new year by sending us her distinctive take on Johnny Mercer's classic 'Moon River,' a beautiful version that brooks favorable comparison to Audrey Hepburn's original. You heard it here first.
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks - January 2013](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/01/15/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-4/) - Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks this month includes new albums by Pastor Mitty Collier, The Rance Allen Group, Manifest, Trey McLaughlin and the Sounds of Zamar and Pastor Van D. Robertson.
- [Dietrich. Deneuve. Garbo. Gardot.](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/01/15/dietrich-deneuve-garbo-gardot/) - DIETRICH. DENEUVE. GARBO. GARDOT: In The Absence--the Deep Roots Album of the Year 2012--Melody Gardot, trading on mystery and control, is vibrantly present and just out of reach. That’s the point.
- [News & Notes - January 2013](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/01/28/news-notes-2/) - In NEWS & NOTES: Gospel stalwarts unite on single to benefit MY SANDY HOOD FUND; 'CHINA BEACH' finally set for DVD release; BLAKE SHELTON consigned to Dunce's Corner, as RAY PRICE speaks out against ignorance; two SERENA MATTHEWS songs on soundtrack of new film.
- [The Quiet Heroism of ‘Right Living’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/01/28/the-quiet-heroism-of-right-living/) - Contributing editor MICHAEL SIGMAN reflects on the recent fall of 'self-appointed heroes' and the virtues of 'quietly going about one's business.'
- [Gabriella Barouch’s Art of Digital Illustration](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/02/12/gabriella-barouchs-art-of-digital-illustration/) - Up-and-coming Israeli artist-illustrtor GABRIELLA BAROUCH was last year's 'Artist of the Season' for the Jerusalem Season of Culture. It's one of many honors she's racked up for her all-digital (even sketches) artwork.
- [Our Shrinking Woods](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/02/12/our-shrinking-woods/) - In his essay 'Our Shrinking Woods,' guest columnist GREG KIELBACK considers how 'industrialized corporate farming techniques have altered the structure of agriculture and therefore our communities.'
- [In Heavy Rotation: Roots & Blues](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/03/10/in-heavy-rotation-roots-blues/) - Rounding up a quartet of must-hear recent releases: NORMAN BLAKE, Day by Day; MARK O'CONNOR, Markology II; MIKE ZITO, Resurrection; and TIFFANY POLLACK, Bayou Liberty.
- [Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/03/01/love-is-a-many-splintered-thing/) - Herein a dozen smokey, sensuous and often ambivalent discourses on love and passion delivered with the breathy tenderness and sublime understatement of someone defining love not as a many-splendored thing, but rather as a many-splintered thing. Melody Gardot returns.
- [Updike at Easter, 2022 Edition](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/04/08/updike-at-easter-2022-edition/) - Our 11th annual installment of 'Seven Voices on Seven Stanzas' brings together new voices and those of earlier contributors to contemplate the greater meaning of John Updike's provocative poem, 'Seven Stanzas at Easter.'
- [Monoswezi: Experimentation is The Order of The Day](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/03/10/monoswezi-experimentation-is-the-order-of-the-day/) - Shanu quite simply means “Five” in the Shona language of Zimbabwe, home to MONOSWEZI's lead vocalist and mbira player HOPE MASIKE. This, their fifth album, is the most adventurous to date from the lineup representing four nationalities among its founders.
- [The Coolest Yule](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/11/29/the-coolest-yule/) - The Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet's first seasonal outpouring, FOOLS FOR YULE, offers some bracing surprises in its mix of original songs and classic holiday fare.
- [The Marovich Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/03/10/the-marovich-gospel-picks-2/) - JAVON JACKSON's THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO NIKKI GIOVANNI leads BOB MAROVICH'S new Gospel picks in its new expanded edition now featuring Bob's latest Gospel Singles Picks. Everybody say 'Amen!'
- [The Hard Road to Compassion and Inclusion in an Alien World](https://deeprootsmag.org/2022/03/08/the-hard-road-to-compassion-and-inclusion-in-an-alien-world/) - JULES spotlights two important new books for young readers: SANCTUARY: KIP TIERNAN AND ROSIE'S PLACE, THE NATION'S FIRST SHELTER FOR WOMEN and Young Vo's GIBBERISH, in which a young boy navigates a new language in a new land.
- [To Dream Like an Angel](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/12/27/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.
- [Making A Great Miracle, From Scraps and Memories](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/12/20/making-a-great-miracle-from-scraps-and-memories/) - In a Deep Roots exclusive, JEREMIAH LOCKWOOD reveals the backstory of his captivating new solo guitar album, A GREAT MIRACLE, subtitled Jeremiah Lockwood’s Guitar Soli Chanukah Record.
- [Holiday Music Stocking Stuffers for 2021](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/12/24/holiday-music-stocking-stuffers-for-2021/) - A trio of delightful musical interludes for the holidays courtesy The TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS, NINETEEN HAND HORSE and TAYLOR RAE. We need a little Christmas, right this very minute.
- [Where the Old Christmas Lives, and Breathes…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/12/22/where-the-old-christmas-lives-and-breathes/) - Timeless sacred and secular Christmas music, largely from the 16th and 17th centuries, by composers such as Michael Praetorius, impeccably performed on period instruments and with sensitive vocalizing by THE YORK WAITS. A lost gem rediscovered.
- [Spanning the Global Yuletide Season in Style](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/12/22/spanning-the-global-yuletide-season-in-style/) - An a cappella seasonal classic, ARSYS BOURGOGNE's 2012 Yuletide offering features Yuletide favorites from across the globe, sacred and secular, sung in seven different languages, all beautifully capturing the spirit of Christmas in its many forms.
- [‘Zat You, Santa Claus?
](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/11/29/zat-you-santa-claus
/) - Brian Setzer puts on his cat clothes and rocks the yule again...and again, putting his indelible stamp on rock 'n' roll Yuletide fare for all time.
- [Spreading Hope & Happiness (with Bunnies)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/05/16/spreading-hope-happiness-with-bunnies/) - Welcome to Peacebunny Island, where 16-year-old CALEB SMITH and friends are spreading hope and happiness with their comfort rabbits. Yes, comfort rabbits. DUNCAN STRAUSS finds out what's up, doc.
- [The Mad Scientist Deep in Experimentation](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/10/07/the-mad-scientist-deep-in-experimentation/) - 'Good, not great,' says our DHRISTOPHER WALSH in in his deep dive into Sir Paul McCartney's McCARTNEY III, adding: '...it shows an artist still reaching, ideas still flowing.'
- [Tales of Two Carols](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/12/02/tales-of-two-carols/) - Origin stories: 'In the Bleak Midwinter' and 'Angels We Have Heard on High'
- [‘The Cry of Anguished Protest, The First of Many Wrought From Me’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/04/22/the-cry-of-anguished-protest-the-first-of-many-wrought-from-me/) - From The Bluegrass Special archives: an updated feature on the enigma that was the late BEVERLY KENNEY: Her voice was soft and cool, her eyes were clear and bright, but she's not there.
- [From The Inkwell: An Animated Christmas](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/11/30/from-the-inkwell-an-animated-christmas/) - Four DVDs, five timeless holiday shows worthy for inclusion in any Christmas video collection. Stories well told, with humor, warmth, sensitivity. wisdom and outstanding animation. All essential titles for any serious Yuletide collection.
- [A Christmas Classic For A Nuclear Armageddon](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/11/29/a-christmas-classic-for-a-nuclear-armageddon/) - A seasonal classic born of an interfaith couple’s mutual concern for the fate of the world during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. The origin story of 'DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?'
- [The Mythic Weight Of Phil Spector's Christmas Gift](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/12/15/the-mythic-weight-of-phil-spectors-christmas-gift/) - In 1963, PHIL SPECTOR thought his CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOU album would be a career-defining event. Then a not-so-funny-thing happened to him on his way to musical world dominance. BILLY ALTMAN fills us in.
- [Ding Dong, Merrily On High, Indeed!](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/12/14/ding-dong-merrily-on-high-indeed/) - Returned to print by Real Gone Music, THE THREE SUNS' amazing 1959 seasonal effort, A DING DONG DANDY CHRISTMAS, is lounge exotica run amuck, a genuine Yuletide gem.
- [Kinda Memorable Bluegrass for Christmas](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/02/kinda-memorable-bluegrass-christmas/) - This year’s crop of new holiday releases has been one of the weakest in recent memory, but even in the strongest years THE ROYS' delightful BLUEGRASS KINDA CHRISTMAS would be a standout.
- [No Words Necessary](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/12/no-words-necessary/) - If you were to select only all-instrumental albums of holiday music, you could hardly do better than to latch onto disparate Yuletide forays by LEROY ANDERSON and JOHN FAHEY
- [In Heavy Rotation: Blues](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/10/08/in-heavy-rotation-blues/) - A potpourri of recent blues albums worthy of attention. Behold the diversity and soulfuness of what's being wrought by MIKE ZITO, BOB CORRITORE AND FRIENDS, MARIA MULDAUR and SUE FOLEY.
- [‘Almost Certainly Telepathic’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/10/08/almost-certainly-telepathic/) - Do you believe in magic? South African guitar virtuoso GUY BUTTERY does, after an 'almost telepathic' session with MOHD. AMJAD KHAN and MUDASSIR KHAN, two master musicians from India, yielded the beautiful ONE MORNING IN GARGAON.
- [The Elite Half-Hundred of 2020, Part 2](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/01/16/the-elite-half-hundred-of-2020-part-2/) - The best of the rest of the rest of our ELITE HALF-HUNDRED OF 2020, featuring JOHN FINBURY, ALBERT CUMMINGS, NEW MOON JELLYROLL FREEDOM ROCKERS, DIANE SCHUUR, MIGHTY MEN OF FAITH, THE CAMBRIDGE SINGERS and others.
- [The Elite Half-Hundred of 2020, Part 1](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/01/16/the-elite-half-hundred-of-2020-part-1/) - THE ELITE HALF-HUNDRED OF 2020, Parts 1 and 2, is topped by the REV. LUTHER BARNES and THE RESTORATION WORSHIP CENTER CHOIR’s LOOK TO THE HILLS.
- [DEEP ROOTS ALBUMS OF THE YEAR, 2020](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/01/16/deep-roots-albums-of-the-year-2020/) - Honoring 10 exceptional album-length explorations of love, loss and spirituality by DAVID BROZA, ISAAC CAREE, KATHLEEN EDWARDS, FISK JUBILEE SINGERS, IVY FORD, GABRIELLE LOUISE, ROD MCCORMACK, JOHN MCCUTCHEON CARY MORIN and ALICIA NUGENT.
- [To Shine Is Why You Came](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/06/13/to-shine-is-why-you-came/) - VALERIE JUNE seems to have stepped out of some sort of enchanted forest, spreading powerfully delivered but gentle-spirited songs that are so filled with whimsy and wonder they seem to be borne more of pixie dust than musical notes. Review by BILLY ALTMAN.
- [Video Moment for the Ages](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/11/11/video-moment-for-the-ages-3/) - In 'When a Soldier Makes It Home' ARLO GUTHRIE reminds us of meaningful matters, and our editor remembers his friends who served their country honorably.
- [Randall Goosby: Style, Soul, Virtuosity](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/07/08/randall-goosby-style-soul-virtuosity/) - Young violinist RANDALL GOOSBY's debut album, ROOTS, is one of this year's most exciting classical music events. Herewith a sampling of the across-the-board plaudits album and artist alike are receiving for this most striking recording.
- [Surf in Verse, 2021 Edition](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/07/06/surf-in-verse-2021-edition/) - Return to one of our most popular summer features, SURF IN VERSE, four evocative poems about the surf experience. This year's edition includes the oldest known surfing poem, THE SONG OF THE SURF, circa 1867, by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON
- [A Most Happy Fella Indeed](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/06/21/happy-fella-indeed/) - From TheBluegrassSpecial.com archives: an exclusive profile of JERRY KELLER, whose 1959 smash, 'HERE COMES SUMMER,' is a seasonal classic. That's not all he did.
- [The Marovich Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/06/13/the-marovich-gospel-picks/) - ROBERT M. MAROVICH's latest and greatest new gospel picks feature new musical blessings by KELONTAE GAVIN, DERRICK 'DOC' PEARSON, HANSON ASIEDU, LAWRENCE HANCOCK and DAVID WRIGHT
- [Worthy of It All](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/05/19/worthy-of-it-all/) - Twelve Grammy Awards and 23 GMA Awards into her towering career, CECE WINANS returns with her first non-holiday release in four years, and she does so in grand style on BELIEVE IT ALL. Gospel editor BOB MAROVICH calls it the best album he's heard in 2021. 'nuff said.
- [The Everyday Violence of Indian Country's 'Bordertowns'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/05/18/the-everyday-violence-of-indian-countrys-bordertowns/) - Red Nation Rising is the first book to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of bordertowns and the long tradition of Native resistance. Review by KALEN GOODLUCK from Deep Roots media partner HIGH COUNTRY NEWS.
- [‘It’s Time to Shine’: An Interview With Ivy Ford](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/05/18/its-time-to-shine-an-interview-with-ivy-ford/) - IVY FORD, riding a wave of acclaim for her 2020 album Club 27 (a Deep Roots Album of the Year), sits down for an interview conducted by LINDA CAIN, founder/managing editor of the essential CHICAGO BLUES GUIDE.
- [Realizing the ‘Dream’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/05/18/realizing-the-dream/) - On his new album, XALAM, Israel-born virtuoso drummer BEN AYLON teams with an all-star assemblage of West African musicians to cast the traditional music and instruments of Senegal and Mali in a fresh, contemporary setting.
- [For the Lost Children of Chile](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/05/18/for-the-lost-children-of-chile/) - NIÑOS: POEMS FOR THE LOST CHILDREN OF CHILE offers 'a powerful reflection on political violence in the lives of children,' as JULES explains in this month's featured book for young readers.
- [Trish McMillan and The Hard Call: Behavioral Euthanasia](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/02/10/trish-mcmillan-and-the-hard-call-behavioral-euthanasia/) - What is 'behavioral euthanasia' and is it really necessary? Animal behaviorist TRISH MCMILLAN explains why this hardest of calls for pet owners to make can be the most humane solution to a chemical, biochemical, physical reason behind a pet's dangerous outbursts.
- [A Quiet Storm of Guitar Mastery](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/04/20/a-quiet-storm-of-guitar-mastery/) - Guitarists LARRY NEWCOMB, with his son JAKE on bass, and DAVE STRYKER lead their combos on scintillating jazz-oriented journeys on their new albums, whereas on his reissued masterpiece, CAMINANDO, guitarist JUAN CARLOS QUINTERO brings us back to a powerful cross-cultural musical moment from 1997.
- [For Sale: Wounded Knee; Johnny Depp, Grandstander; Chief Red Cloud, 93, Walks On](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/29/for-sale-wounded-knee-johnny-depp-grandstander-chief-red-cloud-93-walks-on/) - WOUNDED KNEE for sale? JOHNNY DEPP grandstands about buying it and returning it to the Tribe, but it's only noise; remembering CHIEF OLIVER RED CLOUD
- [The Indian Wars Are Not Over](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/09/03/indian-wars/) - The new Indian Wars are coming towards Rice Lake, Minnesota, as tribes rise up in protest against fossil fuel and extractive mining proposals. It's not only Keystone XL anymore.
- [South Dakota PUC to Tribes: Drop Dead](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/07/14/south-dakota-puc-to-tribes-drop-dead/) - Tribes rebuffed in attempt to air grievances in Keystone XL pipeline hearings; Lower Brule Sioux rejects Keystone XL, demands immediate removal of TransCanada from South Dakota.
- [Being About an Instrument 'At Once Familiar and Unknown’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/04/22/being-about-an-instrument-at-once-familiar-and-unknown/) - In ART OF THE MANDOLIN, AVI AVITAL offers a perspective on 300 years of music composed specifically for his instrument of choice. A range of perspectives--via reviews, interviews and first-person observations-help explain the album concept.
- [Video Moment for the Ages](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/24/video-moment-for-the-ages/) - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, back home in NJ, August 20, 1978. 'Badlands." Rock 'n' roll at its apex. No further explanation necessary.
- [Considering Historical Conflict & Conflicted History](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/03/21/scorching-it/) - JASON RINGENBERG offers a reckoning with history on his 18th solo album, RHINESTONED, featuring the Freedom Riders, Crazy Horse, Jesus Christ and, in spirit, Hank Williams, the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, the Carter Family and The Scorchers.
- [Updike at Easter, 2021](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/04/03/updike-at-easter-2021/) - Updated for Year II of the pandemic, 'Seven Voices on Seven Stanzas' presents a septet of viewpoints on the meaning and import of JOHN UPDIKE's provocative poem, 'Seven Stanzas at Easter.' Featuring Easter-themed videos by DOLLY PARTON, JASON RINGENBERG & THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/03/23/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-42/) - Female artists rule the day in BOB MAROVICH's latest Gospel picks of new albums by CHRYSANN MOORE, LATISHA JOHNSON MONTGOMERY, KATY CRAWFORD, GENETHEA WRIGHT, SAN FRANKLIN and SHALOM CHURCH & FRIENDS presemted by Dr. F. James Clark
- [Abundant Love Before Breakfast](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/03/24/abundant-love-before-breakfast/) - JANE PORTER's THE BOY WHO LOVED EVERYONE, illustrated by MAISIE PARADISE SHEARRING, offers valuable lessons to teach children about managing their emotions, as JULES explains. Also: "HERE COMES THE SUN," a short but welcome Spring greeting.
- [Bluegrass Speaks to The Moment](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/02/26/bluegrass-speaks-to-the-moment/) - A bluegrass trifecta: three new albums, by DALE ANN BRADLEY, THE DILLARDS and PHIL LEADBETTER AND THE ALL STARS OF BLUEGRASS (featuring Steve Gulley) all speak to the moment, addressing a variety of current hot-button issues in a most musical way.
- [Music Connecting People, Wherever They May Be](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/03/06/music-connecting-people-wherever-they-may-be/) - BILLY ALTMAN on the FOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL UNLOCKED FESTIVAL: 'a week of discovery of a lot of worthwhile music (and) a valuable reminder of the power of music to connect people, wherever they may be.'
- [To Ride an Avalanche in Yosemite](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/03/01/to-ride-an-avalanche-in-yosemite/) - At the turn of the 20th Century, naturist JOHN MUIR, never one to shirk a chance for first-person experience in the wild, rode an avalanche down a mountain Yosemite National Park. And lived to tell about it, as he does here.
- [Thirst No More](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/02/02/thirst-no-more/) - The world-weariness welling from deep within the Nashville-based singer-songwriter SUSAN McCRACKEN's soul expresses not helplessness but hopefulness on PATIENT KINGDOM, as if giving testimony to the cyclicality and potentiality of life. And that is what the new album is all about.
- [Otherworldly and Of Their World](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/07/11/otherworldly-and-of-their-world/) - Coming of age throughout China: a new generation of artists who explore and sometimes confound local traditions. Many are heard for the first time outside their native land on LOST IN CHINA.
- [Dispatches From Solitude](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/01/14/dispatches-from-solitude/) - Forced into isolation by the pandemic, JOHN McCUTCHEON began writing songs, and more songs, came up with a moving tribute to front line workers and to his friend John Prine, found some humor in his plight, and voila! CABIN FEVER, a plague-inspired beauty.
- [Exception To The Rule](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/12/06/exception-to-the-rule/) - Something's different about CARY MORIN as we hear him on his fine new album, DOCKSIDE SAINTS: It feels like he's pulling away from the pack.
- [Juliet Menéndez's Latinitas](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/02/05/juliet-menendezs-latinitas/) - In LATINITAS: CELEBRATING 40 BIG DREAMERS, author/illustrator JULIET MENÉNDEZ profiles women from all over Latin America and the U.S. and includes life stories that go back as far as the 17th century. Celia Cruz, Isabel Allende and AOC are among the profiles in this beautiful book.
- [Let Us Now Speak of, and to, Turbulent Times](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/02/03/let-us-now-speak-of-and-to-turbulent-times/) - Speak we now of, and to, turbulent times: two World Music gems address the world as it is: ANOURA, from Mali's Anansy Cissé, and SUCH TIMES by master U.K. singer-songwriter STEVE TILSTON.
- [A ‘Lost Galaxy’ Found, Sun Science Stamps Arrive](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/02/03/a-lost-galaxy-found-sun-science-stamps-arrive/) - A galaxy far, far away, thought 'lost,' has been discovered via the Hubble Telescope. And the Postal Service is issuing a very cool set of Sun Science stamps. You'll never look at the sun the same way again. Well, you shouldn't look at the sun at all.
- [Places in The Heart](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/01/14/places-in-the-heart/) - Find yourself in THE UNENDING ALTERATION OF THE HEART if you will, but GABRIELLE LOUISE is addressing herself in unvarnished interior monologues, leading by example in facing head-on hard truths about life, love and loss. Behold, a torch masterpiece.
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/02/02/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-41/) - BOB MAROVICH reviews new gospel gems from THE FRIERSON BROTHERS, DEO, GENEATHA WRIGHT, LELAND PHILPOTT
- [The Deep Roots Elite Half-Hundred of 2019](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/01/23/the-deep-roots-elite-half-hundred-of-2019/) - Albums of the Year are not the only game in town. Here are 50 long players that made 2019 special for us.
- [Somewhere Between Heartache and Redemption](https://deeprootsmag.org/2021/01/14/somewhere-between-heartache-and-redemption/) - Balancing personal misfortune with spiritual redemption, CRYSTAL SHAWANDA is making a major movie with CHURCH HOUSE BLUES, her fourth blues album.
- [From the Desk of Intern Susan:](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/from-the-desk-of-intern-susan/) - The story of JEMMY BUTTON, one of the oddest true tales of the 19th century, is the subject of a new children's book. Co-illustrator JENNIFER UMAN discusses the work.
- [150 Years of Touching the ‘Fount of Tears’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/09/20/150-years-of-touching-the-fount-of-tears/) - Next year an American treasure, the FISK JUBILEE SINGERS, will celebrate 150 years of bringing spiritual messages of hope, redemption and salvation to the world. The celebration begins with a great live album marking the occasion.
- [The Silence Lifts](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/11/10/the-silence-lifts/) - ALICIA NUGENT, one of the finest voices of her generation, makes a triumphant return on KEITH STEGALL-produced THE OLD SIDE OF TOWN. They don't make 'em like her anymore.
- [Ho-Ho-Ho, Who Wouldn’t Go?](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/11/29/ho-ho-ho-who-wouldnt-go/) - IVY FORD offers a delightful holiday treat in HAPPY HOLIDAYS 2020, her EP featuring five tasty Christmas carols and songs, available as a free download at her website. To say the price is right is to be guilty of understatement.
- [More Than Holly Leaves and Christmas Trees](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/11/28/more-than-holly-leaves-and-christmas-trees/) - TOM MASON's third Yuletide album, UNDER A MISTLETOE SKY, offers a fine option with which to make Christmas merry and bright, in a year when we really need it to be so…
- [Really the Blues: A Roundup](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/11/11/really-the-blues-a-roundup/) - A blues roundup featuring new CDs from British blues-rock veterans SAVOY BROWN, a great one from the late RON THOMPSON and, triumphantly returning from a six-year absence on record, DIANE SCHUUR.
- [The Ol' Christmas Yin-Yang](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/13/the-ol-christmas-yin-yang/) - GEORGE JONES & TAMMY WYNETTE cut only one Christmas single as a duo, but solo, each artist made worthwhile contributions to seasonal music. This Classic more than earns its title.
- [Baby, It’s Hot in Here!](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/12/15/baby-its-hot-in-here/) - A vintage pick from 2009: The HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO in various configurations performing unique and often witty transformations of Yule classics.
- [The Deep Roots Elite Half-Hundred of 2017 (Part 2)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/01/21/deep-roots-elite-half-hundred-2017-part-2/) - Part 2 of the Elite Half-Hundred of 2017 features albums by JUNIOR SISK & THE RAMBLERS, DENNIS JOHNSON, DUDLEY TAFT, MUSICA SECRETA, RAPHAEL PICHON & PYGMALION, MAC WISEMAN and others.
- [Tchaikovsky, Straight & Ellingtonized (Or, ‘Let’s Play Two!’)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/16/tchaikovsky-straight-ellingtonized-or-lets-play-two/) - TCHAIKOVSKY wrote THE NUTCRACKER SUITE, DUKE ELLINGTON and BILLY STRAYHORN reimagined it, and HARMONIE ENSEMBLE NEW YORK offers both versions on a must-have holiday album.
- [Christmas, Close to Home, Hearth and Heart](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/02/christmas-close-home-hearth-heart/) - In his songs about home, hearth and heart, RICK LANG evokes a down-home Christmas celebration, with the help of some talented musicians who took his songs to unexpected places.
- [Big Brass Ones for Christmas](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/12/big-brass-ones-for-christmas/) - On its fifth holiday album, CHRISTMASTIME IS HERE, CANADIAN BRASS honors the music of animated Yule favorites and the arrangements of LUTHER HENDERSON and BRANDON RIDENOUR.
- [Shimmying Down the Chimney](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/10/shimmying-down-the-chimney/) - Not wanting to be the only artist on the planet without a Christmas album, MARIA MULDAUR delivers a holiday evergreen in MIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS, recorded live in San Francisco.
- [Cuddle Time](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/06/cuddle-time/) - This delectable five-song missive--an unassuming but undeniably moving seasonal communiqué--is an affecting followup to Ms. Smith's 2007 Christmas gem, My Holiday.
- [A Christmas Story For All Seasons, And For The Ages](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/12/11/a-christmas-story-for-all-seasons-and-for-the-ages/) - From its opening hosanna, 'I See the Light of the World' to its closing exaltation, 'Morning In Bethlehem,' DONNA ULISSE's song cycle All The Way to Bethlehem is not merely close to perfect, it's a work of art. An instant seasonal classic is our Album of the Week.
- [When Vintage Becomes Timeless](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/10/when-vintage-becomes-timeless/) - DAVID IAN did it in 2011 with Vintage Christmas, and does it again in 2012 with Vintage Christmas Wonderland: gather the combo, pare the set list to five songs and deliver a Christmas gem.
- [Nnenna’s Unconventional Yule](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/17/nnennas-unconventional-yule/) - An optimistic, upbeat, celebratory outpouring of emotion and spirit completely in tune with the season that inspires its unconventional approach.
- [‘Tis the Season To Be Rhonda](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/12/16/tis-the-season-to-be-rhonda/) - With four original songs, RHONDA VINCENT keeps Christmas well on her new Yuletide CD, CHRISTMAS TIME, featuring a moving vocal-and-piano 'Christmas Medley'
- [Sublime & Swingin’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/12/11/sublime-swingin/) - A tribute to the late, great VINCE GUARALDI, and his masterpiece within a masterpiece, the score for the holiday classic TV show, A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
- [The Real Christmas Miracle](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/19/real-christmas-miracle/) - JASON RINGENBERG may have taken to farming but he hasn't left his rock 'n' roll years behind him. He's back with a Yuletide gem outfitted with flourishes of punk and straight ahead rock 'n' roll that recalls his glory years fronting the SCORCHERS.
- [How Mr. Chokepear Keeps A Merry Christmas.](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/02/mr-chokepear-keeps-merry-christmas/) - From a December 25, 1841 issue of the British humor and satire magazine PUNCH, a story satirizing a heartless one-percenter's self-absorbed Christmas rituals.
- [Hark the What? Ironies of a Beloved Carol](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/02/hark-ironies-beloved-carol/) - REV. MARK D. ROBERTS knows 'If you don’t want to tick people off, then don’t change the words of the hymns and carols.' As he explains, 'HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING' is a perfect example of this maxim.
- [Pt. 2:  ‘God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen’ and The Dickens Connection](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/02/pt-2-god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-dickens-connection/) - Ever wonder what is the Christmas carol of Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol'? Evidence points to 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' as the carol in question. We make our case herein.
- [Shirley Chisholm: ‘Always a Doer’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/11/10/shirley-chisholm-always-a-doer/) - In SHIRLEY CHISHOLM IS A VERB! author VERONICA CHAMBERS and illustrator RACHELLE BAKER remember the first black woman elected to Congress and the first woman to make a serious bid for the Presidency. JULES has the inside scoop.
- [In The Realm of The Elusive Butterfly](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/08/13/in-the-realm-of-the-elusive-butterfly/) - Darwin overlooked butterflies, Nabokov loved them, and author WENDY WILLIAMS did a deep dive into the butterfly kingdom and came out with an entertaining and informative perspective on a most unusual insect.
- [Always The Winning Hand](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/09/30/always-the-winning-hand/) - Ever-prolific AL BASILE returns with arguably his strongest effort yet, LAST HAND, a musical radio play concerning a May-to-December romance between an older man and a younger woman. Don't give away the ending.
- [DETOUR (1945)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/02/04/detour-1945/) - 'No one who has seen it has easily forgotten it.' So says ROGER EBERT of the film noir classic, DETOUR, a gem from the Poverty Row era, filmed on a miniscule budget in a matter of days, but aging better than many big budget epics of its time.
- [Deep Roots Albums of the Year, 2019](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/01/22/deep-roots-albums-of-the-year-2019/) - KEB MO' is honored with two Albums of the Year selections for 2019 and he's joined by MARTY BROWN, MARC COHN and BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, KIRK WHALUM and VINCE GILL, among others.
- [Beth Waters Uncovers ‘A Lost Way of Life’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/01/24/beth-waters-uncovers-a-lost-way-of-life/) - BETH WATERS's CHILD OF ST. KILDA is the product of two years of research into "a lost way of life" on one of the most remote part of the British Isles. JULES has the story behind a most remarkable story.
- [In Conversation: Larissa FastHorse, MacArthur Grant Fellow](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/10/12/in-conversation-larissa-fasthorse-macarthur-grant-fellow/) - In NATIVE AMERICA NEWS, an interview with playwright LARISSA FASTHORSE of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, who has been awarded a MacArthur Grant; and news of two Native groups honored with Ford Foundation grants as American Cultural Treasures.
- [In the Still of the Night](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/09/29/in-the-still-of-the-night/) - Reflective, ruminative, serene, spiritual, moving and soothing--three new albums are right on time for our times.
- [Familiar, Fresh & True to the Human Experience](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/09/01/familiar-fresh-true-to-the-human-experience/) - On a most impressive debut, JOHNNY & THE MONGRELS leap immediately into the front ranks of chicken-fried southern soul and swamp-rock on CREOLE SKIES.
- [Bound Together in the Spirit of Cultural Exchange](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/09/16/bound-together-in-the-spirit-of-cultural-exchange/) - On DUSTY ROAD, KLEZMER-ISH explores music of immigrants from various cultural backgrounds who left their homelands in search of a different and better life.
- [Musical Wings to Transport the Soul](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/09/02/musical-wings-to-transport-the-soul/) - Considering the transportive effects of music, especially during a pandemic.
- [Blues Built to Last](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/08/26/blues-built-to-last/) - Chicago blues masters BOB CORRITORE and JOHN PRIMER have delivered blues built to last on THE GYPSY WOMAN TOLD ME, containing performances every bit as classic as the cover art by VINCE RAY.
- [Bringing a Giant's Music Ministry to a New Generation](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/09/01/bringing-a-giants-music-ministry-to-a-new-generation/) - When Grammy winning gospel artist MYRON BUTLER decided to honor the songs of the towering ANDRAE' CROUCH, he wound up, in MY TRIBUTE, with one of the most moving albums of the year. Interview by BOB MAROVICH .
- [The Dark Saint Rises](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/08/14/the-dark-saint-rises/) - A genuine Statement record, IVY FORD's CLUB 27 finds the gifted Chicago-based blues artist-singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist--coming into her own in a powerful way. One of the year's best here.
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/08/26/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-40/) - Outstanding new gospel outpourings reviewed, from MYRON BUTLER, MALI MUSIC, INSTRUMENTS OF MUSICK, NASHVILLE LIFE MUSIC, ALL NATIONS MUSIC, THE ANOINTED CENTRAL KENTUCKY MASS CHOIR and DAVID BILLINGSLEY
- [Manhu: Last Guardians of an Ancient Tradition](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/08/17/manhu-last-guardians-of-an-ancient-tradition/) - MANHU, a quintet from the Yunnan province in Southwest China, are guardians of an ancient but living musical tradition. In the scintillating VOICES OF THE SANI, they offer unique insight into the music of the vanishing Sani culture.
- [The Bookman in Zoomland](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/08/14/the-bookman-in-zoomland/) - JULES welcomes a guest post by DEAN SCHNEIDER, a veteran teacher at Nashville, TN's Ensworth School. Herein Mr. Schneider reveals his plan for a history course he'll be teaching this year--one that recognizes the temper of the times.
- [Kicking It Up a Notch (or Two, or...)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/07/06/kicking-it-up-a-notch-or-two-or/) - KENNY 'BLUES BOSS' WAYNE comes out rockin' and rarely lets up on GO, JUST DO IT! In a tour de force performance, the Piano Hall of Fame inductee offers 10 original songs and terrific covers of two PERCY MAYFIELD tunes and a JJ CALE chestnut.
- [After the Roar, Top Expert Assesses 'Tiger King'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/05/23/after-the-roar-top-expert-assesses-tiger-king/) - Sensation though it was, Netflix's TIGER KING was far less than all that. DUNCAN STRAUSS checks in with a tiger expert to discover what's all wrong about JOE EXOTIC and his claim to fame.
- [In Heavy Rotation: A Bucketful of Blues](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/07/14/in-heavy-rotation-a-bucketful-of-blues/) - A bucketful of new blues rounded up here: reviews of fine new CDs, from THE NIGHTHAWKS, JAY WILLIE &: JAMES MONTGOMERY, ANTHONY GERACI, SWINGADELIC and DAVE STRYKER & BOB MINTZER & THE WDR BIG BAND
- [Being About the Needed Balance of Persistence and Faith](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/06/26/being-about-the-needed-balance-of-persistence-and-faith/) - Like a bridge over troubled waters, ROD McCORMACK's FINGERPRINTS offers safe passage through perilous times--an instant classic of a debut album
- [Standing on Big Shoulders](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/06/18/standing-on-big-shoulders/) - From Robert Johnson to the present day, SPECIAL CONSENSUS celebrates the Windy City's musical legacy on their 45th anniversary recording, CHICAGO BARN DANCE. The consensus? It's special.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/06/24/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-39/) - THE REV. LUTHER BARNES & THE RESTORATION WORSHIP CENTER CHOIR's LOOK TO THE HILLS--one of the best gospel albums of the year--leads BOB MAROVICH's latest batch of top new gospel albums
- [‘It’s Just Like An Unfinished Diamond’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/05/13/its-just-like-an-unfinished-diamond/) - You know the legend. Here's our Listener's Guide to the essential Little Richard on record.
- [Eddie Sutton Contained Multitudes](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/06/07/eddie-sutton-contained-multitudes/) - EDDIE SUTTON, one of the winningest college basketball coaches in history, and an inspirational leader, died in Tulsa on May 23. Herein, two of his players pay tribute to a man who changed their lives.
- [‘I Just Can’t Let Us Forget’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/05/23/i-just-cant-let-us-forget/) - Continuing her 'lifetime retrospective' project, RORY BLOCK pays glorious tribute to some outstanding female blues artists of yore, some undeservedly obscure..but no longer so.
- [Believe](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/05/14/believe/) - Being about the moment and the moment far ahead, BILL CURRERI's HARD ROAD HOME sends a message of buoyant self-realization at a time when it's most needed.
- [In Praise of the Torch Holder](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/04/21/in-praise-of-the-torch-holder/) - In his second solo outing, JUNIOR SISK honors Polonius's advice: "To thine own self be true." In doing so, he creates a traditional bluegrass gem in LOAD THE WAGON.
- [Musical Memories](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/04/22/musical-memories/) - From his MUSICAL MEMORIES memoir, CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS reflects on the legacy and standing of his Romantic-era contemporary, M. JULES MASSENET
- [Going to the Head of the Traditional Class](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/02/19/going-to-the-head-of-the-traditional-class/) - Staunch traditionalist with a honky-tonk bent, the PO' RAMBLIN' BOYS are set to go to the head of the traditionalist class with their Rounder debut, TOILS, TEARS AND TROUBLE
- [In The Woods, In the Illustrator's Eyes](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/04/13/in-the-woods-in-the-illustrators-eyes/) - IN THE WOODS, DAVID ELLIOTT's poetry collection that explores 15 creatures in their woodland habitats, is beautifully illustrated by ROB DUNLAVEY, who discussed the project with JULES.
- [BOB MAROVICH'S GOSPEL PICKS](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/04/05/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-38/) - In BOB MAROVICH's spotlight this month: bridges over troubled waters from ISAAC CARREE, MICHELLE DAVID, MIGHTY MEN OF FAITH, JOHN LEE HOOKER JR. and THE LEGENDARY BEYONS.
- [Updike at Easter, 2020--The Pandemic Edition](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/04/05/updike-at-easter-2020-the-pandemic-edition/) - The Pandemic Edition of our annual Updike at Easter feature is comprised of 'greatest hits' from Easters past, in hopes of bringing some comfort in trying times.
- [Pandemic Passover: A Moment of Rupture May Lead to a New Path](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/04/07/pandemic-passover-a-moment-of-rupture-may-lead-to-a-new-path/) - RABBI MICHAEL ROTHBAUM, reflecting on Passover's history of being recreated in 'inhospitable worlds of exile,' sees the traditional as having lessons to teach a COVID-19 planet.
- [Whale Breaches, Nearly Hits Kayakers, Film At 11](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/02/19/whale-breaches-nearly-hits-kayakers-film-at-11/) - So you're kayaking along, and suddenly a humpback whale shoots up out of the water and breaches on top of you. The Whale Detective, aka TOM MUSTILL, lived it, made a film of it and has some insights into whale sensibility.
- [What Christmas Is As We Grow Older](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/12/11/what-christmas-is-as-we-grow-older-3/) - From CHARLES DICKENS's twopenny weekly, Household Words, a 1951 meditation, 'What Christmas Means as We Grow Older,' an optimistic paean written the same year the author's father and daughter died.
- [The Cummings Imperative](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/02/11/the-cummings-imperative/) - The first outstanding blues album of 2020 comes in the form of ALBERT CUMMINGS's BELIEVE, a tour de force of expressive, soulful vocalizing and guitar mastery of a higher order.
- [A Timeless Work of Textural Electronic Beauty](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/02/18/a-timeless-work-of-textural-electronic-beauty/) - Inspired by the natural beauty of his New Zealand homeland, composer RUDY ADRIAN's WOODLANDS offers a moving ambient impression of the wild forests and planted parks of Dunedin.
- [Rise Above, Find More Peace, Make More Love](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/12/15/rise-above-find-more-peace-make-more-love/) - KEB' MO' delivers the finest Christmas album of the 2019 season in MOONLIGHT, MISTLETOE & YOU. Highlights include a duet with MELISSA MANCHESTER on 'I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm.'
- [A New Opera for the 21st Century Canon, By Way of Willa Cather](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/01/27/a-new-opera-for-the-21st-century-canon-by-way-of-willa-cather/) - WILLA CATHER'S short story 'Paul's Place' has been transformed into an opera event by GREGORY SPEARKS and KATHRYN WALAT. Our JOSPEH NEWSOME ranks it 'amongst the finest recorded opera performances of the 21st Century.'
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel PIcks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2020/01/28/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-37/) - A collection of gospel gems from veteran and new artists alike, including GLORIA GAYNOR's towering 'Testimony'; THE MANY's 'Love>Fear'; a reissue of REBA RAMBO's acclaimed 'Lady'; RENEE SPEARMAN's 'I Love Him,' and others.
- [Getting Personal About Getting Personal with Ted Leo](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/02/03/getting-personal-about-getting-personal-with-ted-leo/) - In an interview he consented to in July 2017, singer-songwriter TED LEO revealed some painful truths about his past. In a more recent interview Talking Animals’ Duncan Strauss questioned Leo about upshot, professionally and personally, of those disturbing 2017 revelations.
- [Deep Roots Albums of the Year, 2018](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/01/30/deep-roots-albums-of-the-year-2018/) - ROSANNE CASH’s brilliant She Remembers Everything is one of the Deep Roots Albums of the Year selections, making her a two-time Album of the Year honoree
- [The Deep Roots Elite Half-Hundred of 2018, Pt. 1](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/02/01/the-deep-roots-elite-half-hundred-of-2018-pt-1/) - Part 1 of the Deep Roots Elie-Half Hundred of 2018 features ROGER MCGUINN, MELODY GARDOT, RORY BLOCK, RODNEY CROWELL, et al.
- ['How Inexpressibly Sad Are All Holidays'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/12/17/how-inexpressibly-sad-are-all-holidays/) - 1863. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW's wife had died in a fire, his son had been seriously wounded in the Civil War. The poet, in despair, still found a reason to believe and wrote the stanzas that later became a beloved seasonal song.
- [The Cleansing Moment(s)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/10/28/the-cleansing-moments/) - MARC COHN & BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA walk the road to salvation, and take us with them, on the JOHN LEVENTHAL-produced gem, WORK TO DO, one of 2019's finest albums
- [When 'Strictly for The Birds ' Is a Compliment](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/11/05/when-strictly-for-the-birds-is-a-compliment-2/) - Veteran singer-songwriter STEPHANIE SEYMOUR is a bird brain--that is, the former Aquanettas member studies and loves birds. So much so that she's released an album of original bird-oriented songs.
- [The Deep Roots Video Holiday Card](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/12/16/the-deep-roots-video-holiday-card/) - From DEEP ROOTS to our readers, a holiday card of the video variety, featuring the ghost of Jacob Marley, Ralph Kramden of The Honeymooners and Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong in memorable seasonal moments
- [A Soul Ever More Grateful For What It Knows Of Love](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/12/15/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.
- [Sergio Ruzzier Returns (And Brings a Legend With Him)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/10/31/sergio-ruzzier-returns-and-brings-a-legend-with-him/) - Famed illustrated SERGIO RUZZIER publishes a new book featuring a previously unpublished text by the legendary RUTH KRAUSS. JULES gets the inside story in an interview with Ruzzier.
- [Palestrina](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/10/30/palestrina/) - In his Memoirs, published in 1896, composer CHARLES GOUNOD reflected on the exalted heights PALESTRINA and MICHELANGELO reached in their respective arts and the points of similarity between the two geniuses.
- [In Heavy Rotation](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/10/29/in-heavy-rotation/) - Reviews of new CDs by IAN & SYLVIA, GLENNA BELL, ANDY STATMAN, EBONY HILLBILLIES, MARLEY'S GHOST, BLUE HIGHWAY, REBECCA DUMAINE and the DAVE MILLER COMBO and the VILLALOBOS BROTHERS
- [Swingin’ and A-Surfin’, All Summer Long: Revisited](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/06/28/swingin-and-a-surfin-all-summer-long-revisited/) - A fresh look at one of our 2014 summer picks, SUMMER BEACH PARTY, a collection of tunes from the beach movies of the '60s, with some curious omissions to account for.
- [Remembering Annette: Trailblazer. Dig It.](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/04/11/remembering-annette-trailblazer-dig-it/) - Part 1 of a two-part tribute to ANNETTE FUNICELLO, who succumbed to multiple sclerosis on April 8,2013, but left behind an admirable catalogue of well-crafted pop songs every bit as cool as she was.
- [Beautiful Music: Mr. Disney, Annette and ‘Tutti’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/04/11/beautiful-music-mr-disney-annette-and-tutti/) - Part 2 of a two-part tribute to the late ANNETTE FUNICELLO, who died of multiple sclerosis at age 70 on April 8. This installment focuses on Annette's studio work with producer TUTTI CAMARATA.
- [The Deep  Roots Elite Half-Hundred of 2018, Pt. 2](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/02/01/the-deep-roots-elite-half-hundred-of-2018-pt-2/) - Continuing the Elite Half-Hundred of 2018 with JUNIOR SISK, SARAH BORGES, SISTER SADIE, et al.
- [We’re Gonna Make It After All](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/08/19/were-gonna-make-it-after-all/) - MARTY BROWN emerges boldly and brilliantly on his first new studio album in 25 years, AMERICAN HIGHWAY, aided and abetted by the sure-handed production and musicality of JON TIVEN
- [October Knowledge](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/10/26/october-knowledge/) - In an exclusive seasonal essay, CHRISTOPHER HILL poetically, evocatively reflects on the passage from summer to fall to the cusp of winter, and the ghosts and dreams in the air along the way.
- [On ‘The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/07/23/on-the-hidden-cost-of-wildlife-tourism/) - DUNCAN STRAUSS interviews NATASHA DALY, Wildlife Crime reporter for National Geographic, about her blockbuster cover story, 'The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism'
- ['A Smoking-Hot Sanctified-Meets-Steel Workout'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/07/25/a-smoking-hot-sanctified-meets-steel-workout/) - According to gospel editor BOB MAROVICH, the LEE BOYS' new album, LIVE ON THE EAST COAST, 'doesn't blur the line between sacred and secular--it erases it altogether.'
- [Robert Neubecker’s Little Plane That Could](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/08/19/robert-neubeckers-little-plane-that-could/) - Two superb new children's books are on JULES's radar: ROBERT NEUBECKER's charming LITTLE SMOKEY and, from the legendary ELOISE GREENFIELD, a personal look at midwives in THE WOMEN WHO CAUGHT THE BABIES
- [Letter to a Friend](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/08/19/letter-to-a-friend/) - In 1868, JOHN MUIR, then a University of Wisconsin student, wrote to his 'spiritual mother' to tell her of his recent travels and his growing devotion to a joyous and reverent communion with Nature.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/07/25/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-36/) - Outstanding--and different--gospel picks from BOB MAROVICH, including new CDs by ABSOLUTION, ZION'S JOY, ELSA HARRIS, SANCTIFIED SOUL, FAITHFUL CONNECTION and others.
- [The Visible Invisible](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/06/27/the-visible-invisible/) - Honoring LEONARDO DA VINCI on the 500th anniversary of his death, British music ensemble I FAGLIONI offers an eclectic recital evoking not so much the music of Leonardo's world but the emotional response to his work
- [Frans de Waal's Case for Animal Emotions](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/05/15/frans-de-waals-case-for-animal-emotions/) - In his new book, MAMA'S LAST HUG, Primatologist FRANS DE WAAL makes a credible case for animals experiencing emotions much as humans do. Suddenly, his ideas are gaining traction. DUNCAN STRAUSS, explores those ideas with de Waal herein.
- [On a Higher Plane](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/06/18/on-a-higher-plane/) - With songs by Dylan, Chuck Berry, Arthur Alexander, Goffin-King, Ronnie Self, Allen Toussaint and others, THE DUKE ROBILLARD BAND's EAR WORMS seeks, and attains, transcendence.
- [Surf in Verse, 2019 Edition](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/06/18/surf-in-verse-2019-edition/) - Our HERE COMES SUMMER celebration continues with the perennially popular SURF IN VERSE feature. Five surfing-inspired poems written by surfers (three of them females) are enhanced by classic surf music courtesy THE BEL AIRS and DICK DALE & HIS DEL-TONES.
- [The Anchor Weighs In](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/06/18/the-anchor-weighs-in/) - In That's Where it's At, MICHAEL JEROME BROWNE celebrates his long love of pre-war blues and country and blends it with his take on modern pop and soul music, connecting our past with our present in telling a very human story.
- [A Gift of Transcendence](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/05/30/a-gift-of-transcendence/) - LOWLAND HUM returns with its fifth album, GLYPHONIC, and our JOSEPH MCSPADDEN finds it to be ;a song cycle that challenges the artist and listener alike to resist the gravitational pull of the material world and to choose to live with intent.'
- [France’s Ever-Visceral Harpsichord Legacy](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/06/04/frances-ever-visceral-harpsichord-legacy/) - 'These are not performances that conjure ghosts of the past: harpsichordist ADAM PEARL reveals that this music lives as viscerally today as it did two-and-a-half centuries ago.
- [Seven Voices on 'Seven Stanzas' (2016 Edition)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/03/25/seven-voices-on-seven-stanzas-2016-edition/) - Continuing a tradition dating back to our April 2011 issue, we present seven new voices commenting and reflecting on the import of JOHN UPDIKE's powerful poem, 'Seven Stanzas at Easter.'
- [Where Day is A-Breakin’ in The Soul](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/05/17/where-day-is-a-breakin-in-the-soul/) - The ST CHARLES SINGERS' AMERICAN REFLECTIONS imbues the listener with a sense of being on hallowed, holy ground, closer to the essence. Texts by RAINER MARIA RILKE, OCTAVIO PAZ, AARON COPLAND and others.
- [Timeless Topics:  Home and Spring](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/05/17/timeless-topics-home-and-spring/) - A double-shot of 7 Imp this time around: in 'A NEW HOME,' we see 'the common humanity in two cultures on two different spots in the map'; and in BLOOM BOOM! we celebrate the flowering, if you will, of spring!
- [Leaving the Stillness of Peace in Its Wake](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/04/16/leaving-the-stillness-of-peace-in-its-wake/) - The first essential reissue of 2019, the French import ROBERTA MARTIN SINGERS: 1947-1962 charts the gold standard early years of this most influential African American mixed-voice gospel ensemble.
- [For Passover 2019: A Reflection on Memory, Metaphor and Meaning](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/04/17/for-passover-2019-a-reflection-on-memory-metaphor-and-meaning/) - For Passover 2019, a Reflection on Memory, Metaphor and Meaning...
- [Updike at Easter: Seven Voices on ‘Seven Stanzas’ (2019 Edition)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/04/16/updike-at-easter-seven-voices-on-seven-stanzas-2019-edition/) - SEVEN VOICES ON 'SEVEN STANZAS AT EASTER': The 2019 edition of our regular Easter feature, spotlighting a septet of opinions--not all affirmative--on Updike's famous poem
- [Being About the Persistence of Love](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/04/08/with-body-soul-and-heart-intact/) - At long last, 83-year-old MARY LANE asserts herself at the forefront of contemporary blues with TRAVELIN' WOMAN, her record of a lifetime and of hanging in and hanging on to love, body, soul and heart intact.
- [Magnificent Original](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/04/08/magnificent-original/) - Conductor VLADIMIR JUROWSKI leads the State Academic Orchestra of Russia through a memorable performance of TCHAIKOVSKY's 1877 version of SWAN LAKE.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/04/09/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-35/) - Seven potent new gospel releases appraised by BOB MAROVICH, including WILLIAM MURPHY, CASEY J, PHILLIP CARTER, GOLDEN GATE QUARTET, THE TOMMIES, THE RECORD COLLECTIVE and JESSICA DALLA TORRE.
- [Glorious Simplicity](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/04/09/glorious-simplicity/) - Hailing from Portland, Oregon, SILVER LAKE 66 offers an interesting take on folk-country in its new album, RAGGED HEART. Attention must be paid, says our JOSEPH MCSPADDEN.
- [Chronicling a Spiritual Exodus from Modern-Day Anxieties](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/03/12/chronicling-a-spiritual-exodus-from-modern-day-anxieties/) - One of the first great albums of 2019, GOSHEN, by DONALD LAWRENCE PRESENTS THE TRI-CITY SINGERS, is a concept album ranging from worship songs to topical numbers to rages against the machine--and the power of faith.
- [Tartit: Tuareg Life Through a Woman's Eyes](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/04/01/tartit-tuareg-life-through-a-womans-eyes/) - TARTIT, the female ambassadors of Tuareg traditional culture, return from a prolonged absence with messages of peace and social cohesion for all cultures on Amankour/The Exile
- [A Paean to Living, Remembering, Carrying On, Moving Forward](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/07/12/paean-living-remembering-carrying-moving-forward/) - The pieces on this expertly produced Open G Records disc ask the listener not only to absorb the complexities of the sonic layers but also to consider their meaning.
- [Awakening & Transformation in India](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/06/21/awakening-transformation-india/) - In 1986 ERIKA ABRAMS was persuaded by her husband to visit India. An awakening and transformative experience ensued, leading to the formation of ANIMAL AID UNLIMITED.
- [Enter, And Feel the Spirit](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/02/19/enter-and-feel-the-spirit/) - Soaring emotions and exquisite quartet harmonizing abound on TRAVELIN' SHOES, a foray into southern gospel (with a stop along the way at western gospel!) by the redoubtable MARLEY'S GHOST
- [Pushing the Envelope of Nordic Jazz](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/03/12/pushing-the-envelope-of-nordic-jazz/) - The Karl Strømme Quintet is opening up new frontiers in Nordic jazz. The group's new album, DYNALYD, furthers the musicians' integration of other styles into the modern jazz tradition. A most pleasing sound it is.
- [‘Song is Central to the Irish Imagination’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/03/11/song-is-central-to-the-irish-imagination/) - Their 2016 debut album was an international hit, and the CHORAL SCHOLARS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN are back with another stellar rendering of Irish song in PERPETUAL TWILIGHT
- ['Knowing Happiness Without Restraints'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/02/24/knowing-happiness-without-restraints/) - Descended from Hindustani musical royalty, ANANDI BHATTACHARYA makes an impressive international debut on JOYS ABOUND, a celebration of 'knowing happiness without restraints.'
- [Of Love, Loss, Chivalry & Memory](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/02/19/of-love-loss-chivalry-memory/) - Christine de Pisan, whose work touched on every aspect of courtly life, from romantic poetry to military strategy and feminist critiques of the position of women in society, has inspired Blondel's new work of late Medieval wind music
- [American Tales](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/02/19/american-tales/) - Two very American tales in JULES's spotlight: GITTEL'S JOURNEY: AN ELLIS ISLAND STORY, and HANDS UP, an affirmation of self-worth, an energizing, empowering celebration of family and community
- [NASA to Advance Unique 3D Printed Sensor Technology](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/02/19/nasa-to-advance-unique-3d-printed-sensor-technology/) - Awarded a $2 million technology development award, NASA technologist MAHMOODA SULTANA and her team are developing technology that could benefit efforts to send humans to the Moon and Mars
- [The Grand Canyon Turns 100](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/02/12/the-grand-canyon-turns-100/) - As Grand Canyon National Park celebrates its centennial on Feb. 26, 2019, it’s worth recalling the peculiar way the canyon became grand and what this has meant. Reflections by STEPHEN PYNE.
- [Young Mozart, Poised to Beguile Georgian Society](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/02/12/young-mozart-poised-to-beguile-georgian-society/) - When eight-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrived in London in 1764, he was, according to JOSEPH NEWSOME, 'poised to beguile the music-loving denizens of Georgian society.' A new album, MOZART IN LONDON, captures that moment.
- [‘Voices Raised in Determination and Triumph’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/02/12/voices-raised-in-determination-and-triumph/) - On this, its fifth CD, The Ebony Hillbillies' old-timey sound evokes, on the one hand, bygone eras in the jubilant bones- and fiddle-fired title track and horrific modern-day tragedies rooted in racial animus...
- [And The Word Was Good](https://deeprootsmag.org/2019/02/11/and-the-word-was-good/) - KIMBERLY KAYE BACHMAN'S new EP, OLD TIME GOSPEL 'is like listening to an early Sunday morning radio broadcast emanating from an AM station in her native Iowa,' says BOB MAROVICH
- [Orpheus, Don't Look Back](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/01/22/orpheus-dont-look-back/) - GRAYSON CAPPS's Scarlett Roses is an epic vision of life, love and struggle in the here and now. It is some kind of masterpiece.
- [Bringing It All Back Home](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/08/06/bringing-it-all-back-home/) - One of the best albums of 2016 was recorded in 1978 and is only now seeing the light of day. LIVE AT ROSY'S captures the great SARAH VAUGHAN in a peak moment. She was indeed the Divine One--and Sassy too.
- [Surf in Verse](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/08/03/surf-in-verse-2/) - Five choice poems by surfers about the spiritual experience of riding the waves, being at one with nature. Surf music interludes by DICK DALE, JAN AND DEAN, THE FOUR SEASONS, TAKESHI TERAUCHI & THE BUNNYS.
- [My Summer Romance (2016 Edition)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/08/02/my-summer-romance-2016-edition/) - Four sweet reminiscences of summer romances, with music by Gary Lewis & The Playboys, Donovan, The Lovin' Spoonful, Charles Trenet, Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold--even Journey.
- [Paulie, Au Courant, Defying Time and Tide](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/08/23/paulie-au-courant-defying-time-and-tide-or-maybe-im-amazed/) - Pure Paul McCartney, au courant, defying time and tide, towering over whomever would challenge his grandeur. Celebrate him now. David McGee reviews Paulie's self-curated 4-CD solo overview. Exit breathless.
- [‘Where Were You, Lord, When This Was Happening?’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/08/08/where-were-you-lord-when-this-was-happening/) - A review of VICTOR LEE AUSTIN's moving 'Losing Susan: Brain Disease, The Priest's Wife and The God Who Gives and Takes Away; and an interview with the author.
- [Rooting Around In a Wonder-ful Pig’s World](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/08/07/rooting-around-in-a-wonder-ful-pigs-world/) - ESTHER THE WONDER PIG is a NY Times best selling author with 770,000 Facebook followers. DUNCAN STRAUSS brings home the bacon in an exclusive interview (not with Esther).
- [The O’Hara Sisters’ ‘Dark Fairy Tale’ by Jules](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/01/23/ohara-sisters-dark-fairy-tale-jules/) - Featuring HORTENSE AND THE SHADOW, 'a dark fairy tale' by NATALIE and LAUREN O'HARA, a writer-and-illustrator sister team with a new book inspired by stories told on snowy nights by their Polish grandmother.
- [Let Us Now Praise Infamous Men](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/01/30/let-us-now-praise-infamous-men/) - The pen and musicianship of the legendary JOHN MENDLESSOHN have brought us ISAMBARD JONES & HIS ORCHESTRA, wherein the absurdist meets the British Music Hall.
- [Deep Roots Albums of the Year, 2017](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/01/20/deep-roots-albums-year-2017/) - Our Albums of the Year for 2017, wherein we honor exemplary artistry by ERIC BIBB, GRAYSON CAPPS, RICHARD HARVEY, LITTLE STEVEN CARY MORIN, MARTY STUART and LEE ANN WOMACK. Well done!
- [The One True Gidget](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/07/18/one-true-gidget/) - From TheBluegrassSpecial.com archives, an exclusive interview with the real GIDGET, KATHY KOHNER, whose father turned his daughter's surfing exploits into a '50s cultural phenomenon in a series of best selling novels.
- [To See in the Looking](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/07/17/to-see-in-the-looking/) - 'Walking in the wilderness allows me to look at beauty created beyond the capacity of any human endeavor. ' RON BOLTON from his journal entry composed while hiking the John Muir Trail.
- [Musical Muscle & An Open Heart](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/07/17/musical-muscle-open-heart/) - Flexing musical muscle and an open heart, DULCIE TAYLOR returns with her most adventurous and piercing album yet in BETTER PART OF ME
- [Exuding the Joy of Connection Through Music](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/06/21/exuding-joy-connection-music/) - FRANCESCA DEGO's exceptional album of concerti by NICCOLO PAGANINI and ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI merits an exceptional review by JOSEPH NEWSOME
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/07/12/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-34/) - BOB MAROVICH finds another gospel treasure trove in new CDs from the WARDLAW BROTHERS, SWEETEVERAFTER, RENEE AUSTIN and others.
- [Staying the Course](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/04/22/staying-the-course/) - On CARTER STANLEY'S EYES, PETER ROWAN journeys into his deepest roots in bluegrass and folk. That's what happens when you stick with it.
- [I Smell a Rat, A Rat Smells Danger](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/02/27/smell-rat-rat-smells-danger/) - APOPO, a Tanzania-based non-profit organization, is having great success training African giant-pouched rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis. You read that right. Join Duncan Strauss for the scoop.
- [Undaunted](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/04/22/undaunted/) - On WE RISE UP, RAVEN AND RED confront all manner of romantic debacle and emerge undaunted. Attention must be paid to these young artists.
- [The Mystery Endures](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/01/20/the-mystery-endures/) - MELODY GARDOT's brilliant CURRENCY OF MAN, finds this unique artist on intimate terms with 'chaos at any moment.' Dark, but empathetic, the new CD is all that, and more.
- [‘The Point Is, You Can Go On A Musical Journey’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/04/23/point-can-go-musical-journey/) - Celebrating 10 Years of Publishing: from TheBluegrassSpecial.com archives, the November 2010 cover story interview with RAUL MALO
- [Feeling Nature’s Rhythms, Mystery and Spiritual Beauty](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/04/22/feeling-natures-rhythms-mystery-spiritual-beauty-2/) - So Scottish composer/pianist ALEXANDER CHAPMAN CAMPBELL went for a long walk through Norway and lo! A beautiful album materialized...
- [If It Weren’t for Good Luck…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/04/15/werent-good-luck/) - On this, his 18th long player, Chris Smither emphasizes—then re-emphasizes--the irony of the collection’s title while taking interesting detours into vintage classics.
- [Knockout ‘Punch’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/04/15/knockout-punch/) - Marking our 10th anniversary in publishing, we begin a year-long retrospective of the 'greatest hits' from TheBluegrassSpecial.com and Deep Roots
- [Feeling Nature’s Rhythms, Mystery and Spiritual Beauty](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/04/15/feeling-natures-rhythms-mystery-spiritual-beauty/) - A sequence of nine evocative, often poignant solo piano pieces by the young Scottish composer/pianist Alexander Chapman Campbell, inspired by a walk through Norwegian mountains
- [Church Aphorisms and Mother Wit in Abundance](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/04/15/church-aphorisms-mother-wit-abundance/) - Still singing songs packed with church aphorisms and mother wit, some of BEVERLY CRAWFORD's most memorable moments are captured on THE ESSENTIAL-VOL 2
- ['Snoop, Let's Take 'em To Church!'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/03/28/snoop-lets-take-em-church/) - SNOOP DOGG promised his new label would offer opportunities for gospel artists, and he delivers, mightily, on that promise on SNOOP DOGG PRESENTS BIBLE OF LOVE
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/03/28/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-33/) - Our gospel editor's picks include another stellar outing from PAUL THORN, the return of JENNIFER SHAW and a sweet collection of gospel violin from DANIEL D.
- [The Heroic and Visionary Women of Passover](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/03/28/heroic-visionary-women-passover/) - 'At Passover, we must tell the stories of the women who played a crucial role in the Exodus narrative.' A reminder by JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG and RABBI LAUREN HOLTZBLATT
- [The Heart, The Inscrutable Heart](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/03/21/heart-inscrutable-heart/) - On A HEART NEVER KNOWS, Ohio's PRICE SISTERS may have lessons to impart about teleportation, so authentic is their otherworldliness.
- [Dragstrip Riot (1958)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/03/21/drag-strip-riot-1958/) - Teenagers gone wild! From 1958, Deep Roots Theater presents DRAGSTRIP RIOT. Featuring generational clashes, mayhem and a kind of rock 'n' roll, with FAY WRAY as the mother, CONNIE STEVENS in her third movie.
- [Updike on Easter (2018 Edition)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/03/21/updike-easter-2018-edition/) - The Deep Roots Easter tradition continues with the 2018 edition of "Updike on Easter: Seven Voices on 'Seven Stanzas," being a septet of opinions on the import of Updike's powerful poem.
- [The Inner Light](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/03/05/the-inner-light/) - The thirty-ninth album of his career may be JOHN MCCUTCHEON's finest yet. The storytelling is vivid and moving, the music is appropriately nuanced, the singing heartfelt and engaging. Let GHOST LIGHT take hold.
- [Intimate and Finely Judged](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/02/27/intimate-finely-judged/) - The mystery of ORLANDO BLOOM's 17th Century consort anthems persists, but his work lives anew and in beauty in CHAINS OF GOLD by the MAGDALENA CONSORT, FRETWORK and HIS MAJESTYS SAGBUTTS and CORNETTS
- [Echoes From A Distant Time](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/02/28/echoes-distant-time/) - IN ECHO , an ensemble devoted to 16th and 17th century music, offers MUSIC IN A COLD CLIMATE, a selection of songs from a time when the seafaring nations of Northern Europe were connected culturally and commercially by the Hanseatic League.
- [Talking Animals: Feral, And a Friend of Animals](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/01/23/talking-animals-feral-friend-animals/) - She's 30 years into her Presidency of FRIENDS OF ANIMALS, an international animal advocacy organization, and her name really is PRISCILLA FERAL. 'I'm wired for this kind of confrontational work,' she says.
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/01/30/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-32/) - BOB MAROVICH continues to find gospel gems, this month ranging from vintage recordings by THE GOSPELAIRES OF DAYTON, OHIO; great modern quartet by the GOLDEN BELLS; and Japanese Christian heavy metal. Praise the Lord!
- [Heart, Homeland, Overtones](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/08/08/heart-homeland-overtones/) - 'When you talk about the accordion you talk about the identity of Galicia.' So says Galician accordion virtuoso VICTOR PRIETO, who explores unexpected dimensions of tone and texture on his new album, THE THREE VOICES.
- [Video Moment for the Ages](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/01/25/video-moment-ages-2/) - From the Seeger Sessions tour, 'Bring 'Em Home.' Thank you, Bruce. God bless Pete Seeger.
- [Classical Perspectives: Richly Sophisticated](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/01/25/classical-perspectives-richly-sophisticated/) - In life he was eclipsed by the shadow of his great pupil, Henry Purcell, and ensuing centuries have seen the 17th century composer JOHN BLOW nigh on to completely forgotten. Until this glorious moment.
- [The Deep Roots Elite Half-Hundred of 2017 (Part 1)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/01/21/deep-roots-elite-half-hundred-2017-part-1/) - The Best of the Rest: The Elite Half-Hundred of 2017 honors 50 outstanding albums of the year newly completed. Part 1 includes gospel, classical, bluegrass, blues, world music and unadulterated rock 'n' roll (thank you, Chuck Berry).
- [Border Crossing, In Spite of It All](https://deeprootsmag.org/2018/01/23/border-crossing-spite/) - Can music help to break down the very borders Brexit seeks to impose? Herein, perhaps, is one answer, as artists from across Europe speak a common language about the human condition that politics cannot put asunder.
- ['So Keith Richards Says to Me...'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/07/19/so-keith-richards-says-to-me/) - On the advice of KEITH RICHARDS, KEVIN FITZGERALD transformed himself from Stones bouncer to superstar veterinarian. And standup comic. True that.
- [The ‘Circular Music’ of Pellingmans’ Saraband](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/01/15/the-circular-music-of-pellingmans-saraband/) - On its new album, TWENTY WAIES UPON THE BELS, PELLINGMANS' SARABAND explores 'circular music' from the 16th and 17th centuries, including a tune with verses written by imprisoned Anne Boylen.
- [Fique Quieto Meu Coração (or, Be Still My Heart)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/07/20/fique-quieto-meu-coracao-or-be-still-my-heart/) - On her second full album, VENTO DO NORTE, Rio native (now L.A. resident) BIANCA ROSSINI offers Bossa Nova and fresh takes on the mystery and glory of love.
- [Love in The Medici Court](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/08/03/love-in-the-medici-court/) - From fragments of the earliest known operas as performed at the Medici court in Florence, Italy, RAPHAEL PICHON has assembled a fresh, passionate whole--a celebration of love--in the two-CD set, STRAVAGANZA D'AMORE.
- [We Need to Talk](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/07/12/we-need-to-talk/) - A fine new long player by one of the best bluegrass bands extant, THE MOUNTAINS ARE CALLING ME HOME finds JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLERS CHOICE chronicling betrayals, regrets and loss. We need to talk.
- [Beauty, Ease and Contemplation in Equal Measure](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/07/11/beauty-ease-and-contemplation-in-equal-measure/) - Beautiful and moving, this recording of song cycles by JONATHAN DOVE, rendered with sensitivity and passion by MARY WHATELY, draws on poems by the likes of EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY.
- [Beyond Time](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/06/20/beyond-time/) - Hailing from South Florida, musical educators and musicians all, the NEW VISION SAX ENSEMBLE makes its recording debut with scintillating takes on classic jazz, pop and show tunes.
- [Songs From The Heart and The Headlines](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/04/05/songs-from-the-heart-and-the-headlines/) - In laying out challenges and rewards for even a casual singer-songwriter fan, SARAH BEATTY'S 'BANDIT QUEEN' says much about her confidence in herself and in her audience.
- [Right Where You Need To Be](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/04/14/right-where-you-need-to-be/) - On TURN TO JESUS, the newly minted DAVE ADKINS TRIO explains what it means to be known by God, to be held in God's gaze, to be 'right where you need to be.'
- [The Mesmerizing World of Music in 16th Century Convents](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/04/18/the-mesmerizing-world-of-music-in-16th-century-convents/) - The mysterious world of 16th century convent music comes alive in MUSICAL SECRETA's LUCREZIA BORGIA'S DAUGHTER, comprised of motets published anonymously in Venice in 1543.
- [To Do More, To Be More](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/07/25/do-more-be-more/) - After a near-20-year absence, LITTLE STEVEN has returned with a new solo album, SOULFIRE. Rock 'n' soul don't get any better than this. All others are pretenders to the throne.
- [Of Ethereal, Poised Beauty](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/03/14/of-ethereal-poised-beauty/) - Film composer Richard Harvey's disc of highly evocative choral music in superb performances from two Baltic choirs, the LATVIAN RADIO CHOIR and the ESTONIAN PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER CHOIR
- [Turn The World Around](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/05/01/16965/) - The 'west' of MARTY STUART AND HIS SUPERLATIVES' provocative WAY OUT WEST is as much metaphysical as geographical, despite nods to the likes of Dick Dale...
- [Timeless Gospel Messages Delivered in New Ways](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/09/18/timeless-gospel-messages-delivered-in-new-ways/) - MICHELLE DAVID is a gospel dynamo, and she's outdone herself, again, with THE GOSPEL SESSIONS VOL. 2. Bob Marovich weighs in one on of 2017's finest new CD releases.
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/09/19/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-31/) - Reviews of powerful new gospel albums from ROYCE LOVETT, NATASHA OWENS, NICHOLE NORDEMAN, DERRICK 'DOC' PEARSON, DEVIN WILLIAMS, ADAM EVERETT, WORLD CHURCH UNITES. BOB MAROVICH appraises the lot.
- [Christian Robinson: A Child’s Eye-View of Birthdays](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/08/03/christian-robinson-a-childs-eye-view-of-birthdays/) - A pre-publication look at WHERE'S MY BIRTHDAY, by poet JULIE FOGLIANO with illustrations by CHRISTIAN ROBINSON. This picture bookcelebrates the thrill children get when anticipating a birthday and all that comes with it.
- [Over There: When Americana Doesn't Mean American](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/09/18/over-there-when-americana-doesnt-mean-american/) - A Deep Roots Exclusive from John E. Simpson: an investigation into what makes Americana Americana when the artists performing it aren't American.
- [The Meaning of Folk-Rock](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/09/18/the-meaning-of-folk-rock/) - 'The Meaning of Folk-Rock,' an excerpt from CHRISTOPHER HILL's essential 'INTO THE MYSTIC: THE VISIONARY and ECSTATIC ROOTS OF 1960S ROCK AND ROLL'
- [Marilyn & Alan Bergman: A Marriage of Two Minds](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/09/18/marilyn-alan-bergman-a-marriage-of-two-minds/) - An exclusive excerpt from MICHAEL SIGMAN's second volume of HITS HISTORY OF THE MUSIC BIZ interviews, this one featuring the great songwriting team of MARILYN & ALAN BERGMAN
- [Video Moment for the Ages](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/08/14/video-moment-for-the-ages-5/) - From January 21, 1965, LESLEY GORE with a knockout performance of the Jeff Barry-Ellie Greenwich tune 'The Look of Love' and Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Hello Young Lovers.'
- [Make That ‘Loving Tribute’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/08/13/make-that-loving-tribute/) - Honoring important people in his life and career, ace jazz guitarist LARRY NEWCOMB adds BUCKY PIZZARELLI to his Quartet and delivers on LIVING TRIBUTE
- [Expressing the Power and Beauty of Difference](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/08/13/expressing-the-power-and-beauty-of-difference/) - A powerful commentary on migration, refugees and human rights, the multicultural RAFIKI JAZZ's third album, HAR DAM SAHARA, speaks eloquently to our time.
- [Joseph FireCrow Jr. Walks On](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/07/25/joseph-firecrow-jr-walks-on/) - Remembering JOSEPH FIRECROW, cultural ambassador and GRAMMY winning Northern Cheyenne flute player, who walked on at age 58.
- [The Cat’s Pajamas of Social Media](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/05/23/the-cats-pajamas-of-social-media/) - If you’re contemplating raising your kids without any pets in the home, you should know that one could turn out to be a man who raps about cats.
- [Bobby Osborne: Sui Generis](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/07/05/bobby-osborne-sui-generis/) - Now 85, bluegrass legend BOBBY OSBORNE, with ALISON BROWN producing and superb backing musicians, has a solo triumph in the accurately titled ORIGINAL.
- [Collapsing Star Gives Birth to a Black Hole](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/05/30/collapsing-star-gives-birth-to-a-black-hole/) - ‘If future observations confirm this team’s findings, this would be the first birth of a black hole ever witnessed and the first failed supernova ever discovered’
- [My Summer Romance (2017 Edition)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/07/04/my-summer-romance-2017-edition/) - Four reflections on summer romances come and gone, with music of a decidedly French twist by EDITH PIAF, JULIETTE GRECO, MELODY GARDOT and, au contraire, CAROLE KING
- [Surf in Verse (2017 Edition)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/06/28/surf-in-verse-2017-edition/) - Our annual roundup of poetry inspired by the surfing experience and largely written by surfers. The spirituality of the natural world comes alive in verse. With musical interludes to boot.
- [New Frontiers in Sustainable Agriculture](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/06/20/new-frontiers-in-sustainable-agriculture/) - Urban farms in Vancouver, BC, and Encintas, CA, are doing great things for their communities and for local growers. Plus, 10 urban female farmers planting seeds of change.
- [Hello, Dolly: The ‘Different Dynamic’ of Jermaine Dolly](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/06/20/hello-dolly-the-different-dynamic-of-jermaine-dolly/) - Giving new meaning to the salutation 'Hello, Dolly!,' rising gospel star JERMAINE DOLLY talks to BOB MAROVICH about his sudden ascendancy and long-term goals.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/06/20/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-30/) - In the spotlight: PRESHEA HILLIARD, DARRELL MCFADDEN & THE DISCIPLES, WILLIAM E. JOHNSON III, TREVA JONES, FAVOUR, MEN OF GOD'S HEART.
- [Blues, Classical & Corky Siegel Ascendant](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/06/13/blues-classical-corky-siegel-ascendant/) - Blues harmonica master and skilled composer CORKY SIEGEL returns with his CHAMBER BLUES string quartet for a blues-classical romp on DIFFERENT VOICES..
- [Communing With Misfortune, In Search of Justice](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/05/30/communing-with-misfortune-in-search-of-justice/) - Falsely convicted of murder, four Native Alaskans--the Fairbanks Four--were freed in 2015 after 18 years in prison. Composer Emerson Eads responded with MASS FOR THE OPPRESSED.
- [All That Heaven Allows (1955)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/05/30/all-that-heaven-allows-1955/) - No one made movies quite like DOUGLAS SIRK, and ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS is one of his landmarks. Also featured: the first MIGHTY MOUSE cartoons.
- [An ’Old Church’ Remembrance, Righteous and Rousing](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/05/23/an-old-church-remembrance-righteous-and-rousing/) - BOB MAROVICH uncovers a five-star gospel gem in the new CD, A TRIBUTE TO SUNDAY MORNING GOSPEL, VOLUME 1, PART 1 featuring BISHOP J.D. MEANS SR.
- [Slim In Name Only](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/12/slim-name/) - ANTHOLOGY, a new double-CD overview, chronicles the tough, tender and topical sides of TOO SLIM AND THE TAILDRAGGERS, one of America's best bands
- [Get Thee Hence, Sinner - Christine Santelli](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/25/get-thee-hence-sinner-christine-santelli/) - EPs are proliferating these days, but few can match CHRSTINE SANTELLI's new one, LIMELIGHT '69, a collection of first-rate original songs and possibly a search for spiritual redemption, all at once.
- [Then and Now, Now and Then](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/11/then-and-now-now-and-then/) - Something old, something new, something borrowed and a whole lotta blues, boogie and country recommend the autobiographical PIANOGRAPHY from the master of the honky tonk 88s, EARL POOLE BALL.
- [2013’s Elite Half-Hundred - Part II](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/02/17/2013s-elite-half-hundred/) - Part II of 50 keepers from the year since passed: Selections include albums by CLAIRE LYNCH, FRANK SOLIVAN & DIRTY KITCHEN, BOBBY RUSH, MARY J. BLIGE, SAMANTHA FISH, et al.
- [‘Less Common is a Bach Album Like This’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/05/23/less-common-is-a-bach-album-like-this/) - CHRIS THILE, YO-YO MA and EDGAR MEYER honor the source yet bring a healthy non-classical pedigree to 17 Bach compositions on BACH TRIOS
- [Poverty and Child Labor in 28 pages](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/05/23/poverty-and-child-labor-in-28-pages/) - in I LIKE, I DON'T LIKE, author ANNA BACCELLIERE, with illustrators ALE+ALE, offers young readers a thought provoking look at how child labor destroys childhood.
- [Alison Eastwood: Widening Efforts To Foster Fostering](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/04/05/alison-eastwood-widening-efforts-to-foster-fostering/) - CLINT EASTWOOD's accomplished daughter ALISON visits DUNCAN STRAUSS to discuss how she added 'animal advocate' to her resume and founded FOSTERFURKIDS.com.
- [Sounds To Silence The Din of Discord](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/05/01/sounds-to-silence-the-din-of-discord/) - Three JULIANA HALL-composed songs cycles--based on verses by Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore--are masterfully rendered on LOVE'S SIGNATURE.
- [Special Delivery](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/04/18/special-delivery-2/) - A loving and long overdue tribute to the great SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MCGHEE by Ambassador of the Blues GUY DAVIS and his producer-harmonica ace FABRIZIO POGGI. All aboard!
- [All Who Wander Are Not Lost](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/04/11/all-who-wander-are-not-lost/) - Staying in touch with his divine roots, ERIC BIBB returns with MIGRATION BLUES, a humanistic and common sense perspective on immigration issues within and outside of U.S. borders. It's the best, most important music he's made.
- [Top of the World, Ma! (The Best Albums of 2014)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/28/top-world-ma-best-albums-2014/) - The Deep Roots ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2014 selections honor the artistry of ROSANNE CASH, SEAN COSTELLO, LISA MILLS, PETER ROWAN and JESSE WINCHESTER.
- [The 2012 Album of the Year Trifecta & The 2012 Elite Half Hundred](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/01/15/the-2012-album-of-the-year-trifecta-the-2012-elite-half-hundred/) - The Method to Our Madness: Why we picked three recordings as Album of the Year, and the unveiling of our first Elite Half Hundred keeper albums of 2012, topped by the GIVING TREE BAND's powerful Vacilador.
- [Christmas Kisses from Glenna, Serena & Leslie](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/12/17/christmas-kisses-from-lisa-glenna-serena-leslie/) - Four outstanding Yuletide performances by four outstanding singer-songwriters: GLENNA BELL, LESLIE COURS MATHER, SERENA MATTHEWS & LISA MILLS. Christmas kisses all around!
- [The Heroic and Visionary Women of Passover](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/04/14/the-heroic-and-visionary-women-of-passover/) - '...at Passover, we must tell the stories of the women who played a crucial role in the Exodus narrative.' JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBERG and RABBI LAUREN HOLTBLATT offer an important perspective.
- [‘I Know I Was Meant To Do This’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/04/14/i-know-i-was-meant-to-do-this/) - Young WARREN DEAN FLANDEZ is one of the young artists most responsible for Canada's robust gospel music scene. BOB MAROVICH has an exclusive interview to offer.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/04/14/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-29/) - Australia's legendary gospel singer JUDY JACQUES is the subject of a long-overdue retrospective, as is the towering American gospel artist EDNA GALLMON COOKE. Plus other new releases.
- [Seven Voices on ‘Seven Stanzas’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/04/13/seven-voices-on-seven-stanzas/) - Our 2017 edition of 'Seven Voices on Seven Stanzas'--a septet of perspective on JOHN UPDIKE's famous poem 'Seven Stanzas at Easter
- [The Journey Proceeds Apace…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/03/28/the-journey-proceeds-apace/) - In the front rank of Ireland's new wave of young traditionalists, BEOGA is making its move in the U.S. with a strong new album that continues the band's amazing journey since its formation in 2002.
- ['I'd Rather Go Blind'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/03/04/santelli-names-now-lights/) - Live at the Lincoln Inn in Jersey City, NJ, Christine Santelli performs 'I'd Rather Go Blind
- [Mendelssohn’s ‘Hymn of Praise’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/03/28/mendelssohns-hymn-of-praise/) - GEORGE P. UPTON examines the life of FELIX MENDELSSOHN and the story behind the great composer's Symphony No. 2 ('Hymn of Praise').
- [Universal Truths](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/03/14/universal-truths/) - NOAM PIKELNY steps away from the PUNCH BROTHERS for his fourth solo album, UNIVERSAL TRUTH; and the truth is, it's just Noam, his instruments, his voice, and it's great.
- [The Presence of ‘Being’ in Every Note…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/03/07/the-presence-of-being-in-every-note/) - Poland's ANNA MARIA JOPEK has sung with STING, collaborated with PAT METHENY and now joins forces with some of Cuba's finest on MINIONE.
- [My Beautiful Birds](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/03/14/my-beautiful-birds/) - In MY BEAUTIFUL BIRDS author SUZANNE DEL RIZZO addresses young readers with an instructive, very human tale about the plight of Syrian refugees, told from a young refugee's point of view.
- [Klezmer? Gypsies? Schubert? Yes!](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/03/14/16832/) - Schubert's classic C Major Quintet re-invented by ZRI, a Hungarian klezmer band, in a revelatory performance following the group's acclaimed 2014 gypsy interpretations of Brahms's music
- [Where Hearts Beat as One](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/02/28/where-hearts-beat-as-one/) - On their new album, FASTER AND FARTHER, DARIN and BROOKE ALDRIDGE are metaphorically flying on a collection of songs about love and loss, including IAN TYSON's 'Someday Soon.'
- [On The Street Where She Lived](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/02/20/on-the-street-where-she-lived/) - Continuing to advance the art of jazz harp and her own compositional skills, CAROL ROBBINS is joined by Billy Childs' Jazz Chamber Ensemble and others on nine cool new tunes on TAYLOR STREET.
- [ECSTASY (1933)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/08/11/ecstasy-1933/) - ECSTASY, the film that made teen Hedy Kiesler notorious before she was HEDY LAMARR and inventing cell phone technology, plus an essential 1933 cartoon, MICKEY'S GALA PREMIER
- [Music of a Forgotten Master](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/02/21/music-of-a-forgotten-master/) - On his new disc, DANIEL GRIMWOOD offers the piano works of ADOLF VON HENSELT, a forgotten master whose music 'breathes the same air as that of Chopin and Liszt,' says ROBERT HUGILL.
- [NASA's Fermi Discovers the Most Extreme Blazars Yet](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/02/21/nasas-fermi-discovers-the-most-extreme-blazars-yet/) - NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a type of galaxy whose intense emissions are powered by supersized black holes.
- [A Great Storm in Utah](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/02/21/a-great-storm-in-utah/) - From his collections of essay published in 1819, JOHN MUIR recounts 'A Storm in Utah,' and proves himself as insightful about the 'salt Latter Days' as he is poetic about the forces of nature.
- [Planting Seeds in The Wild](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/02/14/planting-seeds-in-the-wild/) - Trumpian turbulence and an inner spiritual journey fuel CARY MORIN's arresting new collection of solo acoustic fingerpicked beauties, including a triumphant anthem for the Standing Rock protests.
- [Tippi Hedren: Birds, Big Cats And Hitchcock](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/02/14/tippi-hedren-birds-big-cats-and-hitchcock/) - Actress TIPPI HEDREN had, at least, a complicated relationship with ALFRED HITCHCOCK, and for a few decades now has had a complicated relationship with big cats. A revealing interview by Duncan Strauss.
- [Home and Heart](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/01/31/home-and-heart/) - An outstanding tribute to a great artist, FEEL LIKE GOING HOME; THE SONGS OF CHARLIE RICH finds a host of artists revealing the man whose songs they honor.
- [From the Archives, Rare and Timeless Classic Gospel](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/20/from-the-archives-rare-and-timeless-classic-gospel/) - 2013 was a good year for gospel music, for new and established artists alike, and especially for some gospel pioneers whose groundbreaking work is back in print on three essential reissues.
- [Mozart’s ‘Requiem’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/01/31/mozarts-requiem/) - 'Requiem,' Mozart's final masterpiece, was written in late 1791, while the composer lay dying. In 1893 George P. Upton published this detailed account of the composition's creation.
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/01/31/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-28/) - New picks include: HEAL: SONGS OF HOPE FOR OUR NATION, a reissue of DEE DEE SHARP's SONGS OF FAITH, and outstanding new releases by VaShawn Mitchell, Anthony Faulkner, Monae Miller, et al.
- [No Bigger Heart Than His](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/01/24/no-bigger-heart-than-his/) - Now 91, MAC WISEMAN, The Voice With a Heart, is the focus of (and participant in) a tribute to his extraordinary life and career. PETER COOPER and THOMM JUTZ steered the project.
- [Trump Gives Finger to Native Americans](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/01/24/trump-gives-finger-to-native-americans/) - Chief Red Cloud, late 1800s: 'They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one: they promised to take our land, and they took it.'
- [The Deep Roots 2016 Yuletide Baedeker](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/02/deep-roots-2014-yuletide-baedeker/) - A guide to the Christmas content published over the years in TheBluegrassSpecial.com and Deep Roots, including our 2016 Christmas album picks.
- [Music to Entrance, Uplift and Break Your Heart](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/01/24/music-to-entrance-uplift-and-break-your-heart/) - Manchester, England's THE BREATH features guitarist STUART MCCALLUM and vocalist RIOGHNACH CONNOLLY delving deeply into the spaces between rock, ambient and Irish folk
- [The Zito Doctrine](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/01/15/the-zito-doctrine/) - Moving forward from the blunt confessions of 'Gone to Texas,' MIKE ZITO, working with producer TOM HAMBRIDGE, lets 'er rip in glorious fashion on the incendiary MAKE BLUES NOT WAR, one of 2016's best.
- [Albums of the Year, 2016](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/01/16/albums-of-the-year-2016/) - From the unexpected (the revitalized Stones on their blues album) to the unclassifiable (Jeremiah Lockwood's KOL NIDRE), our 2016 Album of the Year selections offer sweet music from varied sources.
- [The Elite Half Hundred of 2016, Part 2](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/01/15/the-elite-half-hundred-of-2016-part-2/) - Albums 26 through 50 in Part 2 of the Elite Half Hundred of 2016
- [The Elite Half Hundred of 2016, Part 1](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/01/15/the-elite-half-hundred-of-2016-part-1/) - Fifty albums that made life worth living in 2016. Part 1.
- [Retrospectives of the Year (2016)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/01/15/retrospectives-of-the-year-2016/) - Something akin to Lifetime Achievement Awards: Paul McCartney's Pure McCartney and Rhonda Vincent & The Rage's All the Rage: Rhonda Vincent & The Rage Live in Concert, Volume One
- [The Secret Project](https://deeprootsmag.org/2017/01/16/the-secret-project/) - How do you explain the atomic bomb to children? JULES says a new book, THE SECRET PROJECT, by JONAH WINTER and JEANETTE WINTER, is 'a compelling introduction to this topic.' The first review is here.
- [Our Christmas Best to You](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/18/our-christmas-best-to-you/) - In the late '80s BONNEVILLE MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS sent out a press-only holiday tape that is an unassuming classic of its kind--funny, moving and heartwarming. Hear this lost gem exclusively at Deep Roots.
- [You Have Come to The World. I Pour Out Praise for You.](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/12/13/you-have-come-to-the-world-i-pour-out-praise-for-you/) - BENEDICTINES OF MARY, QUEEN OF APOSTLES have created their third classic Christmas album in CAROLING AT EPHESUS. All proceeds go the order's building projects.
- [The Throw of the Dice: Josquin's ‘Missa Di Dadi’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/11/03/the-throw-of-the-dice-josquins-missa-di-dadi/) - With PETER PHILLIPS directing , THE TALLIS SCHOLARS return with their eleventh disc of JOSQUIN masses, a welcome release featuring two quirkly early masses, including 'Missa Di Dadi,' or 'The Dice Mass.'
- [Uncaged](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/03/08/uncaged/) - Veteran soul/blues/R&B singer-songwriter-guitarist JOHNNY RAWLS offers interesting perspectives on love, happiness and commitment on TIGER IN A CAGE. Soul lives.
- [Sniffing Out Revelations About the Canine Sense of Smell](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/12/22/sniffing-out-revelations-about-the-canine-sense-of-smell/) - After reading ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ’s 'Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell,' it turns out that many of us may have severely underestimated just how much that nose knows. DUNCAN STRAUSS investigates.
- [From Advent to Epiphany](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/12/17/from-advent-to-epiphany/) - Classical editor ROBERT HUGILL rounds up the best in Classical Christmas albums for 2016.
- [‘I WONDER AS I WANDER’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/12/15/i-wonder-as-i-wander/) - STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS: JOHN JACOB NILES's own account of writing 'I Wonder As I Wander,' plus an online discussion of the meaning of 'on'ry' in the first verse.
- [‘Deck The Hall’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/12/15/deck-the-hall/) - It's really titled 'DECK THE HALL' (singular) and dates to 16th century Wales. Behold the story behind the song and versions by NAT KING COLE, THE ROCHES, JAMES TAYLOR and MITCH MILLER
- [Channeling Beatles, In Rarified Air](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/11/14/channeling-beatles-in-rarified-air/) - In their first new CD since 2012, the HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO reimagines tunes by Lennon-McCartney and George Harrison in the gypsy jazz style of DJANGO REINHARDT.
- [The Key Man Claus(e)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/12/12/the-key-man-clause/) - On his all-instrumental Yuletide offering, KEYS TO CHRISTMAS, pianist-producer JEFF COLLINS offers seasonal delights with a twist, and engaging thoughtful moments as well.
- [Seeking a Meaningful Acquaintance with Schubert](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/11/14/seeking-a-meaningful-acquaintance-with-schubert/) - Classical contributor JOSEPH NEWSOME proclaims vocalist Philippe Sly and guitarist John Charles Britton's SCHUBERT SESSIONS: LEIDER WITH GUITAR, 2016's best lieder recording.
- [Summoning Bukka](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/11/14/summoning-bukka/) - RORY BLOCK continues her Mentor Series with a scintillating tribute to a perennially underrated Delta blues man in KEEPIN' OUTTA TROUBLE: A TRIBUTE TO BUKKA WHITE
- [Saturn’s Rings in Daylight, On the Night Side](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/11/14/saturns-rings-in-daylight-on-the-night-side/) - A spectacular view of Saturn's rings as photographed from the planet's nightside by the Cassini spacecraft on the Cassini Solstice Mission.
- [TO AUTUMN](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/11/03/to-autumn/) - Celebrating the beauty and complexity of Autumn with a little help from our friend JOHN KEATS...
- [Soothing Music in a Troubled Time](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/09/23/soothing-music-in-a-troubled-time/) - Self-released and Kickstarter funded, Hawaii's PACIFIC HARP PROJECT quartet has reimagined works by revered composers such as RAVEL and DEBUSSY, and added scintillating originals to the mix.
- [Protecting All Creatures Great & Small](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/11/02/protecting-all-creatures-great-small/) - Imagine a politician that believes animals are citizens too, my friends, and are entitled to the rights and protections we enjoy as humans. Enter NJ State Senator Raymond J. Lesniak.
- [How Will Musicians Control Their Credits in the Digital Age?](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/09/26/how-will-musicians-control-their-credits-in-the-digital-age/) - ProMusicDB is a new organization dedicated to giving musicians past and present proper credit, and thus remuneration, for recording sessions they play on. ProMusic DB founder CHRISTY CROWL explains.
- [The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/09/24/the-fiend-who-walked-the-west-1958/) - ROBERT EVANS bid farewell to his acting career in THE FIEND WHO WALKED THE WEST in grand, over-the-top style. Also featured: the surviving footage from GOLD DIGGERS OF BROADWAY 1929.
- [Dramatic, Innovative, Profoundly Moving](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/09/24/dramatic-innovative-profoundly-moving/) - The first recording of JAMES MACMILLAN's examination of the events following Christ's crucifixion, SINCE IT WAS THE DAY OF PREPARATION, is a triumph.
- [Border Patrol](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/09/24/border-patrol-2/) - In a true border crossing event, GABRIEL ESPINOSA and TIERNEY SUTTON deliver a nuanced tribute to the songs of BURT BACHARACH and Mexican songwriting legend ARMANDO MANZANERO.
- [‘We’re Trying to Unpack The Mind’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/09/23/were-trying-to-unpack-the-mind/) - ADITYA and MYTHILI PRAKASH have brought the peculiar rush and seductive snares of the mind’s inner workings to moving, singing life with MARA, a multimedia performance and album.
- [You Can Go Home Again](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/09/12/you-can-go-home-again/) - MARK O'CONNOR. predictably unpredictable, returns as a member of a splendid roots band featuring his wife MAGGIE, his son FORREST and his son's fiancee, KATE LEE. It's a loving family affair.
- [The Wind of the Book](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/09/14/the-wind-of-the-book/) - Marking her tenth year of blogging, JULES offers informed insights into ANNE HERBAUT's award winning (in the author's native France) WHAT COLOR IS THE WIND?
- [Why Standing Rock Matters](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/09/12/16255/) - In this measured but impassioned essay, LIZ PEREZ HALPERIN, Native American and Navy Veteran, explains the issues surrounding the Standing Rock resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Must reading.
- [Another Archeophone Treasure](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/09/12/another-archeophone-treasure/) - It's another major event for ARCHEOPHONE RECORDS when the Grammy winning label releases, on September 30, the rarest known gospel recordings, from 1890-1900. BOB MAROVICH details all the specifics.
- [The Philosopher Ascendant](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/09/12/the-philosopher-ascendant/) - AL BASILE brings his voice, his cornet and his songwriting skills to bear most impressively on a new album that speaks to respect for those who came before even as it addresses contemporary issues.
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/09/12/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-27/) - Reviews of seven new noteworthy gospel releases featuring SHIRLEY CAESAR, VIKTORY, DANIEL MURPHY, CROWNS OF JOY, EAGLE ROCK GOSPEL SINGERS, ELOHO, and GRETCHEN KESKEYS
- [Investigating Stellar Shrapnel](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/08/23/investigating-stellar-shrapnel/) - Thousands of years ago, 160 light years away from Earth, a star exploded, scattering stellar shrapnel across the sky. The Hubble Space Telescope recently found evidence of the event.
- [Of Heart, Soul & the Collaborative Dance](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/08/23/of-heart-soul-the-collaborative-dance/) - The collaborative art of heart and soul via solid new albums by the ERNIE WATTS QUARTET and the combo led by LAFAYETTE HARRIS JR. with guest legend HOUSTON PERSON on tenor sax.
- [Otherworldly Sensations of Time and Space](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/04/13/of-otherworldly-sensations-of-time-and-space/) - A COSMIC RHYTHM WITH EACH STROKE, by VIJAY IYER and WADADA LEO SMITH, is grounded in human feeling and promises to stand the test of time.
- [Harnessing the Power of Russian History and Personal Longing](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/04/13/harnessing-the-power-of-russian-history-and-personal-longing-2/) - Seven years in the making, JULIA VORONTSOVA's 'OVER' 'is my vision of me,' the artist proclaims, adding: 'I feel between eras.'
- [Shakespeare, In Concept](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/08/11/shakespeare-in-concept/) - CLARA SANABRAS has adapted SHAKESPEARE'S 'THE TEMPEST' into an operatic production and, now, a concept album with Britten Sinfonia and others. It's a beauty. ROBERT HUGILL reviews.
- [Traveling Upwards to That Glorious Place](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/08/09/traveling-upwards-to-that-glorious-place/) - DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER rejoice all the way through BURDEN BEARER, bluegrass gospel delivered with conviction and authority, with and without instruments.
- [Patti Smith’s Lightning Amid New Voices (Newport Sampler, 2016)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/08/10/patti-smiths-lightning-amid-new-voices-newport-sampler-2016/) - PATTI SMITH, an unadvertised KRIS KRISTOFFERSON and JOE ELY were some of the stalwart names at the 2016 Newport Folk Festival, but IRA MAYER found some new voices coming on strong too.
- [LURED (1947)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/04/17/lured-1947/) - LUCILLE BALL, GEORGE SANDERS, BORIS KARLOFF, GEORGE ZUCCO and CEDRIC HARDWICKE head a stellar ensemble cast in DOUGLAS SIRK's semi-comedic film noir gem from 1947.
- [Of Time and The Artist’s Heart](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/05/05/of-time-and-the-artists-heart/) - From Ligeti to Bill Evans to Oscar Peterson to Nina Simone to George Gershwin and others, CHRISTINA MCMASTER offers a wondrous journey through time on PINKS & BLUES. ROBERT HUGILL reviews.
- [Aesthetically Unified as One Romantic Brotherhood](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/05/05/aesthetically-unified-as-one-romantic-brotherhood/) - On RHEINMÄDCHEN, France's all-female vocal chorus ENSEMBLE PYGMALION, conducted by RAPHAEL PICHON, assays, with an invigorating twist, Wagner, Schubert, Schumann, Johannes Brahms and others.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/05/05/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-26/) - New gospel picks include a stellar retrospective, HALO: THE ONE-DERFUL COLLECTION, and new testimonies from CARL B. PHILLIPS, THE VOLUNTEER STATE MASS CHOIR, VIRTUE, LECRAE & JONATHAN NELSON.
- [The Adkins Doctrine](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/05/08/the-adkins-doctrine/) - Populist bluegrasser DAVE ADKINS is back with his second solo album, a self-titled effort. The social conscience remains intact, but the heart is what it's all about here. All else is marginalia.
- [First Global Topographic Model of Mercury](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/05/08/first-global-topographic-model-of-mercury/) - NASA’s MESSENGER mission has unveiled the first global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of Mercury, revealing in stunning detail the topography across the entire innermost planet.
- [Video Moment for the Ages](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/05/08/video-moment-for-the-ages-4/) - From BURT BACHARACH's 1972 TV special, ANTHONY NEWLEY and SAMMY DAVIS JR. in once-in-a-lifetime golden moment, assaying classic selections from the Anthony Newley-Leslie Bricusse songbook.
- [Oceanic Swells of Feeling and Musicality](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/06/03/oceanic-swells-of-feeling-and-musicality/) - On COUCHVILLE SESSIONS, DARRELL SCOTT'S 'patient, perfectionism and passion' come together in 'ocean swells of feeling and musicality,' says our DERK RICHARDSON.
- [Harold’s Hungry Eyes](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/06/03/harolds-hungry-eyes/) - KEVIN WALDRON's new picture book, HAROLD'S HUNGRY EYES, is as funny and instructive as his drawings are evocative. Illustrations abound and JULES offers her critical perspective to boot.
- [Raymond Myles and the Rocky Road to Redemption](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/06/03/raymond-myles-and-the-rocky-road-to-redemption/) - MICHAEL SIGMAN on the late New Orleans gospel icon RAYMOND MYLES and a documentarian's attempt to finish a film about Myles's tragically short life and timeless musical legacy.
- [Delightfully Evocative, Simply Beautiful](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/06/27/delightfully-evocative-simply-beautiful/) - ARMONICO CONSORT, under the direction of CHRISTOPHER MONKS, delivers beauty, respite and spiritual transcendence on GREENSLEEVES: FOLK MUSIC OF THE BRITISH ISLES.
- [In Vigorous Defense of the Maligned Pit Bull](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/06/27/in-vigorous-defense-of-the-maligned-pit-bull/) - Author BRONWEN DICKEY, daughter of the late JAMES DICKEY (Deliverance), is stepping up to defend a most maligned breed in her book PIT BULL: THE BATTLE FOR AN AMERICAN ICON. DUNCAN STRAUSS gets the lowdown.
- [Softball, The Music Biz and the Me Decade](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/03/softball-music-biz-decade/) - MICHAEL SIGMAN recounts an epic softball tripleheader in the Summer of '76 between the Record World Flashmakers and the E STREET KINGS. Yes, those E Streeters...
- [Being About The Enduring Values](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/03/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.
- [With Carter Hovering Overhead](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/03/carter-hovering-overhead/) - With friends such as DIERKS BENTLEY, DEL MCCOURY, LEE ANN WOMACK, JIM LAUDERDALE, BUDDY MILLER, RICKY SKAGGS, et al., how could RALPH STANLEY go wrong? He doesn't.
- [The Charmed Third Moment of Stardom](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/03/charmed-third-moment-stardom/) - Appraising a long-overdue retrospective of towering Cuban singer ABELARDO BAROSSO and 14 essential recordings he made with ORQUESTA SENSACION
- [A Final Flowering](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/02/10/final-flowering/) - ANONYMOUS 4 is closing out its near-30-year career with one of its finest albums, 1865--SONGS OF HOPE AND HOME FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, the final installment of its Americana Trilogy.
- [Anonymous 4: The Exit Interview (Sort of)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/02/10/anonymous-4-exit-interview-sort/) - An interview with ANONYMOUS 4's MARSHA GENENSKY (above) and SUSAN HELLAUER, reflecting on the Early Music quartet's groundbreaking career in this, its 30th and final year on stage and on disc.
- [The View from Deep Space, Via New NASA Interactive App](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/02/01/view-deep-space-via-new-nasa-interactive-app/) - NASA's new 3DV app previews the starting point for the nation's journey to Mars.
- [Last Stop on Market Street: A Visit with Matt de la Peña & Christian Robinson](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/26/last-stop-market-street-visit-matt-de-la-pena-christian-robinson/) - JULES sits down with MATT DE LA PEÑA, author of one of her favorite new books of 2015, LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET, beautifully illustrated by CHRISTIAN ROBINSON.
- [A Dazzling French Connection](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/26/dazzling-french-connection/) - After dazzling the opera world on stage last year, Belgium's SONYA YONCHEVA is doing it on record, with her debut album, PARIS, MON AMOUR--a different sort of French connection. Also: TRIO MEDIAEVAL.
- [If Ever There Were a Needed Time...](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/26/ever-needed-time/) - ERIC BIBB's powerful BLUES PEOPLE, inspired by the work and words of DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, espouses racial harmony in soulful tones, while underscoring how much work towards that ideal remains.
- [Skip James Made Manifest](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/26/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.
- [Mighty Fine (The Best Albums of 2015)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/01/22/mighty-fine-the-best-albums-of-2015/) - Melody Gardot (Currency of Man), Anonymous 4 (1865), Benedictines of Mary (Easter at Ephesus), Jerry Lawson (Just a Mortal Man), Keith Richards (Crosseyed Heart) and Jeremiah Lockwood (Lockwood).
- [Hubble Sees a Supermassive, Super-hungry Galaxy](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/01/20/hubble-sees-a-supermassive-super-hungry-galaxy/) - The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has located spiral galaxy NGC 4845, more than 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin). At its glowing center is a supermassive black hole.
- [Shakespeare’s Ophelia Finds a New Voice](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/01/20/shakespeares-ophelia-finds-a-new-voice/) - SHAKESPEARE didn't give Hamlet's Ophelia near the complexity and substance HANS ABRAHAMSEN and BARBARA HANNIGAN bring to her character in LET ME TELL YOU.
- [Border Patrol](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/01/20/border-patrol/) - On AMERICANO Classical guitar giant PABLO VILLEGAS ranges from Venezuela to Mexico, from Paraguay to the Bayou, from Broadway to the rural South in celebrating the music of all the Americas.
- [Consumed with ‘Kudo’: Real-Life Superhero Is Animal Abusers’ Worst Nightmare](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/12/14/consumed-with-kudo-real-life-superhero-is-animal-abusers-worst-nightmare/) - When it comes to animal abusers, especially those running illegal slaughterhouses, RICHARD 'KUDO' COUTO is unforgiving and merciless in bringing the miscreants to justice. Exclusive interview.
- [World Without End, Amen](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/04/07/world-without-end-amen/) - GREAT BIG WORLD contains simply too many inspired performances to be anything but a blessing, apart from it being one of TONY TRISCHKA's showcase moments as a banjo titan and band leader without peer.
- [Feeling The Vibrations](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/03/25/feeling-the-vibrations/) - Post-Kronos Quartet, cellist Joan Jeanrenaud has created one compelling solo work after another. Her latest, VISUAL MUSIC, delivers an unusual range of emotional wallops, says reviewer DERK RICHARDSON.
- [Inspired by Tolstoy and Pigs](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/04/11/inspired-by-tolstoy-and-pigs/) - Toronto-based animal rights activist ANITA KRAJNC is co-founder of Toronto Pig Save. They save pigs from slaughter, on pain of arrest. Their efforts are paying off. DUNCAN STRAUSS has the inside story.
- [Revitalizing the Lakota Language](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/03/08/revitalizing-the-lakota-language/) - A substantial grant for revitalizing the Lakota language in early childhood; deconstruction for Mother Earth; solar panels for the Red Lake Nation
- [Featuring Frank Morrison](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/03/08/featuring-frank-morrison/) - Illustrator FRANK MORRISON catches JULES's attention this month with his work in PAT ZEITLOW MILLER's THE QUICKEST KID IN CLARKSVILLE, in which Olympic great WILMA RUDOLPH makes a cameo and the story makes a point.
- [Virtual Vinyl and the Soul of Brazil](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/03/08/virtual-vinyl-and-the-soul-of-brazil-2/) - Boasting more #1 hits in Brazil than any other female artist, the provocative DANIELA MERCURY returns with VIRTUAL VINYL, the latest chapter in her electric, soulful and always passionate story...
- [The Cosmopolitan Queen of Bel canto](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/03/08/the-cosmopolitan-queen-of-bel-canto/) - Classical contributor JOSEPH NEWSOME sits down for an enlightening chat with JESSICA PRATT, 'The Cosmopolitan Queen of Bel canto,' upon the release of her debut recital disc, SERENADE
- [To The Ages of Ages](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/03/08/to-the-ages-of-ages/) - Singer-songwriter SANDY CARROLL explores her own and others' Southern roots in her intriguing, novelistic new CD, LAST SOUTHERN BELLE
- [‘Where Do I Start and Where Do You Begin?’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/02/25/where-do-i-start-and-where-do-you-begin/) - Hailing from Portland, Oregon, singer-songwriter HOLLY ANN has produced a deeply moving meditation on faith in her second album, LIGHT AND BLOOM. BOB MAROVICH provides the review.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/02/25/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-25/) - Another stellar crop of new gospel CDs: The superb anthology CHRISTIANS CATCH HELL, THE DYNAMIC ABRAHAM BROTHERS, JOR'DAN ARMSTRONG, HI-LITE JUNIORS, KASSANDRA MCGHEE, CONRAD MILLER.
- [Neon Deon](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/02/13/neon-deon/) - Teaming with producer BUDDY CANNON, the RANDY ROGERS BAND delivers the first outstanding country album of 2016, NOTHING SHINES LIKE NEON
- [She’ll Take You There](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/02/25/shell-take-you-there/) - Celebrate MAVIS STAPLES: Feb. 26 sees the release of her new album, Feb. 29 sees the HBO debut of a new documentary about her life and tiimes, MAVIS!, produced and directed by JESSICA EDWARDS.
- [Sustainable Agriculture News](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/02/17/sustainable-agriculture-news-7/) - Report: Missouri has a serious food insecurity problem; Oregonian TARA WHITSETT is preaching the gospel of 'empowerment and preservation through fermentation.'
- [An Octopus Opus More Gripping Than Eight Tentacles](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/02/14/an-octopus-opus-more-gripping-than-eight-tentacles/) - An essential interview with SY MONTGOMERY, author of THE SOUL OF AN OCTOPUS. You'll get sucked in.
- [Beyond Arcady and Bethlehem](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/02/17/beyond-arcady-and-bethlehem/) - A must-hear event for choral music lovers: ONLY A SINGING BIRD by the NATIONAL GIRLS CHOIR of Scotland, with sensitively rendered songs by MICHAEL HEARD and others.
- [Always Magic In the Air](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/02/16/always-magic-in-the-air/) - Delmark has reissued BLACK MAGIC, the MAGIC SAM BLUES BAND's stellar followup to its acclaimed WEST SIDE STORY. Magic is indeed in the air.
- [The Elite Half Hundred of 2015, Part 2](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/01/22/the-elite-half-hundred-of-2015-part-2/) - Part 2 of the Elite Half Hundred selections for 2015. 'Fifty Albums That Made Life Worth Living in 2015.'
- [The Elite Half Hundred of 2015, Part 1](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/01/21/the-elite-half-hundred-of-2015/) - TONY BENNETT & BILL CHARLAP lead this year's Deep Roots Elite Half Hundred selections of 2015's top albums (excluding our Album of the Year selections). Part 1 covers the Top 25.
- [First Stirrings of a New Duduk Master](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/01/20/first-stirrings-of-a-new-duduk-master/) - ARSEN PETROSYAN is being hailed as the new torchbearer of Armenian duduk. On his debut album, CHARENTSAVAN: MUSIC FOR ARMENIAN DUDUK, the prodigy makes a powerful impression.
- [Roberta Martin, In Depth](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/01/20/roberta-martin-in-depth/) - At long last comes a biography of modern gospel music pioneer ROBERTA MARTIN. Her #1 living fan, Ronald L. Greer documents the full, inspiring story in ONLY A LOOK. Review by BOB MAROVICH.
- [The Haunting](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/01/20/the-haunting/) - For his fourth solo album, PETER COOPER ennobles the literate, poetic texts of ERIC TAYLOR on DEPOT LIGHT: THE SONGS OF ERIC TAYLOR--a career highlight for both artists.
- [Revisiting Dire Lullabies to Great Effect with Linda Ashman and Simona Mulazzani](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/01/20/revisiting-dire-lullabies-to-great-effect-with-linda-ashman-and-simona-mulazzani/) - LINDA ASHMAN's ROCK-A-BYE ROMP, with illustrations by SIMONA MUJAZZANI, is an early 2016 treat. Jules's review of same is another early 2016 treat.
- [Down the Road Apiece](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/01/20/down-the-road-apiece/) - '... at his deepest roots, it’s pretty clear that it’s never been about him, but about what passes through him.' BILLY ALTMAN comes to praise KEITH RICHARDS' new solo album.
- [Wondrous Incandescence](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/06/11/wondrous-incandescence/) - Two folk veterans are at the top of their games: TOM PAXTON on his new REDEMPTION ROAD album and MICKEY CLARK (with his band THE BLUE NORTHER) on REASONS & RHYMES.
- [It Starts With The Heart](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/07/12/it-starts-with-the-heart/) - Another triumph for MARK O'CONNOR, but this time he's sharing the spotlight with his ferociously talented new bride, MAGGIE O'CONNOR, on DUO.
- [Beautiful Restraint](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/27/beautiful-restraint/) - POESIA by JOYCE MORENO & KENNY WERNER, and MÉLANGE by KARIN & MIKE KELLEHER are cross-cultural explorations that demonstrate the power of the less-is-more approach
- [THE TURNING POINT (1952)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/20/the-turning-point-1952/) - WILLIAM DIETERLE directs this fine early '50s film noir starring WILLIAM HOLDEN, EDMOND O'BRIEN, ED BEGLEY and ALEXIS SMITH and L.A.'s Bunker Hill section. SHORT SUBJECT: DISNEY's 'TRICK OR TREAT.'
- [The Big Land](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/12/14/the-big-land/) - Ever more ambitious, ALISON BROWN returns with THE SONG OF THE BANJO, with KEB' MO outstanding on 'What's Going On,' and our reviewer likening the instrumental portions to Smetana's 'The Moldau.' Really.
- [TRACES](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/01/20/traces/) - On IMPRINT, her first solo release since 1998, TERRE ROCHE offers songs quirky, funny, warm and tender. In true Roches fashion, larger truths are revealed between the lines and in odd phrasings.
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2016/01/20/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-24/) - An awesome lineup of new gospel reviews from BOB MAROVICH, ranging from retrospectives of giants THE PILGRIM TRAVELERS and MARION ANDERSON to impressive newcomers such as Australia's GURRUMUL.
- [Angels We Have Heard on High](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/12/21/angels-we-have-heard-on-high/) - DANCING DAY: MUSIC FOR CHRISTMAS, the last recording JOHN SCOTT made with the SAINT THOMAS CHOIR OF MEN & BOYS before his tragic death this past August, is a reverent seasonal classic.
- [THE DARK CORNER](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/06/11/the-dark-corner/) - First-class film noir here starring LUCILLE BALLS, CLIFTON WEBB, MARK STEVENS and WILLIAM BENDIX, directed by HENRY HATHAWAY. Also: the debut of HECKLE AND JECKLE in THE TALKING MAGPIES.
- [It’s All Too Beautiful: Nellie McKay Sounds Off on…Everything](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/06/11/its-all-too-beautiful-nellie-mckay-sounds-off-oneverything/) - NELLIE MCKAY is never at a loss for words--about animals, the '60s, her new album (MY WEEKLY READER)--and she told it as it is in a lively TALKING ANIMALS interview with DUNCAN STRAUSS
- [The Past and the Future Power of West African Rock](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/07/12/the-past-and-the-future-power-of-west-african-rock/) - Mali's BASSEKOU KOUYATÉ & NGONI BA reach electrifying heights on BA POWER, on which Kouyaté’ continues exploring 21st Century possibilities of the ancient ngnoi lute.
- [Heightening Prokofiev’s Inherent Eloquence](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/12/14/heightening-prokofievs-inherent-eloquence/) - On PETER AND THE WOLF IN HOLLYWOOD, GIANTS ARE SMALL, with help from ALICE COOPER, offer a clever, charming prequel to SERGEI PROKOFIEV's beloved children's classic from 1936
- [The Man With All the Toys](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/12/14/the-man-with-all-the-toys/) - BRIAN SETZER and his ORCHESTRA return for his sixth Christmas blowout, ROCKIN' RUDOLPH, which lives up to the warm , virtuosic and rockin' high standard the Stray Cat has set for himself at Yuletide
- [NASA Mission Reveals Speed of Solar Wind Stripping Martian Atmosphere](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/11/11/nasa-mission-reveals-speed-of-solar-wind-stripping-martian-atmosphere/) - NASA's MAVEN has produced data enabling researchers to determine the rate at which the Martian atmosphere is losing gas to space via solar wind.
- [You Can Get Anything You Want (including Alice) from Arlo This Month](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/11/11/you-can-get-anything-you-want-including-alice-from-arlo-this-month/) - ARLO GUTHRIE is delightfully omnipresent in November, with a PBS broadcast of his 50th anniversary 'Alice's Restaurant' show and a new children's book to boot.
- [A Master In His Element, On Key, On Time & Wed To the Truth](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/11/19/a-master-in-his-element-on-key-on-time-wed-to-the-truth/) - Buddy Guy has been playing hot guitar for decades now, but the irony of his BORN TO PLAY GUITAR album is that it may well be his finest-ever set of end-to-end vocal performances.
- [Tested In the Furnace of Affliction](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/11/19/tested-in-the-furnace-of-affliction/) - SAM BUTLER, former lead guitarist with the Blind Boys of Alabama, makes his solo debut with a most unusual spiritual album--with songs by Springsteen, Waits, Curtis Mayfield, Johnny Cash, et al.
- [Deep Roots](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/11/19/deep-roots/) - Deploying his vast collection of acoustic guitars, Duke Robillard and some high-profile friends (such as Maria Muldaur and Jay McShann) work out on some classic tunes from the '20s through the '40s.
- [The Common Language of the Heart](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/11/19/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.'
- [‘Speak Less, But Let Each Note Come From The Soul’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/11/11/speak-less-but-let-each-note-come-from-the-soul/) - On its eponymous debut album Bolo Bolo makes the connections between different cultures and traditions and forges them into something new
- [Like the Music, He Lives On](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/11/11/like-the-music-he-lives-on/) - JEFF HEALEY, a remarkable artist by any measure, exercised his passion for vintage jazz and swing in his latter years and made memorable music. A new retrospective offers a stirring overview of some peak moments.
- [Catherine (of Aragon) and Henry (VIII) Dancing? Imagine!](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/11/11/catherine-of-aragon-and-henry-viii-dancing-imagine/) - The ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS, with mezzo-soprano CLARE WILKINSON, are dazzling on a new disc of music drawn from some of the earliest manuscripts surviving from the turn of the 16th Century.
- [Genesis of a Gospel Song: ‘Total Praise’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/20/genesis-of-a-gospel-song-total-praise/) - In his new series GENESIS OF A GOSPEL SONG, gospel editor BOB MAROVICH gets the inside story from RICHARD SMALLWOOD on how the latter wrote 'Total Praise,' one of the greatest contemporary gospel songs.
- [Of the Earth and In the Spirit](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/20/of-the-earth-and-in-the-spirit/) - Stepping away from the JOHN FOGERTY camp, master of the keys BOB MALONE offers MOJO DELUXE, a solo effort infused with gospel, soul and rock 'n' roll stylings and soul searching lyrics.
- [Sustainable Agriculture News](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/20/sustainable-agriculture-news-6/) - The USDA is giving $35 million in funding to local and regional food systems, including farmers markets, but can farmers, especially small ones, make enough at those markets to make them worth their while?
- [Quoth the Bard…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/27/quoth-the-bard/) - AL BASILE, one of contemporary music's most literate artists, reaches new heights of eloquence and musicality on B'S EXPRESSION, with production, for the 12th time, by DUKE ROBILLARD.
- [Fanning the Flames of Whitman’s ‘Subtle Electric Fire’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/27/fanning-the-flames-of-whitmans-subtle-electric-fire/) - Enlisting the support of some 64 musicians and choir/session singers, GARRY DIAL and DICK OATTS have delivered a stirring, jazz-oriented musical interpretation of Walt Whitman poems.
- [Journey To the Healing Moment](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/11/11/journey-to-the-healing-moment/) - Bluegrass singer-songwriter DONNA ULISSE maintains the glide in her stride with another strong album, HARD CRY MOON
- [Wasn’t That a Time?](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/20/wasnt-that-a-time/) - In 1966 BOB DYLAN recorded BLONDE ON BLONDE in Nashville and the floodgates opened. A new double-CD collection documents some great music made in Nashville from the mid-'60s through the early '70s.
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/20/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-23/) - A splendid septet of new gospel CDs reviewed by BOB MAROVICH, including new outpourings from JONATHAN MCREYNOLDS, KIM BURRELL, ALEXIS SPIGHT, EAGLE ROCK GOSPEL SINGERS, KEVIN RILEY, ZAVIEL JANAE.
- [Animals Making The Case For Neko—And Vice Versa](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/20/animals-making-the-case-for-neko-and-vice-versa/) - It's not enough to be one of our finest singer-songwriters; NEKO CASE is also a veteran vocal advocate of animal welfare issues. She explains her raison d'etre to DUNCAN STRAUSS in another stellar TA installment.
- [Extra-Savory Bluegrass](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/20/extra-savory-bluegrass/) - The finest in contemporary bluegrass is coming to you from Mobile, Alabama's DELTA REIGN. The band is back, following up its superb Calm Before the Storm with another top-notch outing, NOTHING BUT SKY.
- [The Latinate Cello](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/20/the-latinate-cello/) - On the enticing ALVORADO, OPHELIE GAILLARD, better known as a baroque and classical cellist, convincingly performs a wide variety of Spanish and Latin American music by Piazzolla, Jobim, Villa Lobos and other greats.
- [Of Senses Engaged and Hearts Touched](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/20/of-senses-engaged-and-hearts-touched/) - Dig a fresh, imaginative take on some Brazilian evergreens--including three by ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM--on the fascinating BRAZILIAN PROJECT by mesmerizing vocalist CATINA DELUNA and her LADO B band, featuring OTMARO RUIZ.
- [Momo & OHora (& Frank Zappa) Before Breakfast](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/11/momo-ohora-frank-zappa-before-breakfast/) - JULES interviews author-illustrator ZACHARIAH OHORA about his newest picture book, MY COUSIN MOMO, and shows some of his fine illustrations. FRANK ZAPPA and CAPTAIN BEEFHEART show up too.
- [The ‘Superhuman’ Voice of Pauline Viardot](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/11/the-superhuman-voice-of-pauline-viardot/) - Pauline Garcia Viardot (1821-1910) was one of the 19th century’s most versatile and influential opera stars. In his book 'Musical Memories,' CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS provides the most in-depth profile extant of Mme. Viardot.
- [‘Serious, Fascinating, Independent’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/11/serious-fascinating-independent/) - On ENTANGLED FORTUNES, the RED NOTE ENSEMBLE does justice to five major chamber pieces written by Scottish composer EDDIE MCGUIRE. Classical editor ROBERT HUGILL weighs in on a fine album.
- [Newport Folk Festival Goes Roots-y (But Hasn’t It Always Been So?)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/08/24/newport-folk-festival-goes-roots-y-but-hasnt-it-always-been-so/) - A surprise set by JAMES TAYLOR was the highlight of highlights at this year's NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL. Our man on the scene, IRA MAYER, a festival veteran, reflects on the lineup's not-so-folky flavor.
- [Light In Shadow](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/08/25/light-in-shadow/) - An interview with SHULAMITT OTTOLENGHI about the 10-year journey that produced her powerful new CD, FOR YOU THE SUN WILL SHINE: SONGS OF WOMEN OF THE SHOAH
- [‘Tenor Hits From the Age of the Talkies’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/08/26/tenor-hits-from-the-age-of-the-talkies/) - Reigning tenor king JONAS KAUFFMAN assays a charming collection of songs from a special time in Germany's history, the era of Sally Bowles and the Kit Kat Club
- [Chris Morris Writes the Book on a Great American Band](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/08/26/chris-morris-writes-the-book-on-a-great-american-band/) - LOS LOBOS is a vitally important American band, and now it has a biography to suit its stature. MICHAEL SIGMAN gets the story behind CHRIS MORRIS's LOS LOBOS: DREAM IN BLUE.
- [Of Life and Hearts in the Balance](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/11/of-life-and-hearts-in-the-balance/) - The earth and the hearts of people living on it are in the balance in the potent songs on IAN TYSON's memorable new album, CARNERO VAQUERO. It's a Tyson classic.
- [My Own Field Trip](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/10/11/my-own-field-trip/) - A field trip with her students to Hawaii's Hoa 'Aina O Makaha reminds TOUTKA WONGSE-ONT of some eternal truths about nature--strong, spontaneous feelings that nonliving things could not evoke.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/08/24/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-22/) - Picks include: J.B. SMITH, KAREN CLARK SHEARD, KIRK WHALUM (DVD), TASHA COBBS, FUNMILAYO NGOZI, LAURA KACZOR, DAMION MURRILL & SILOAM
- [The Past Is Present (And Accounted For)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/08/24/the-past-is-present-and-accounted-for/) - On COUNTRY GRASS, LORRAINE JORDAN & CAROLINA ROAD bluegrassify old country hits but add a unique twist along the way.
- [Indomitable](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/08/24/indomitable/) - A Civil Rights Movement leader and powerful gospel singer, FANNIE LOU HAMER'S authenticity comes through most clearly on SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME.
- [After 30 ‘Bizarro’ Years, Dan Piraro Is Going…Somewhere Else...Maybe…Who Knows?](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/08/03/after-30-bizarro-years-dan-piraro-is-goingsomewhere-else-maybewho-knows/) - After 30 years, DAN PIRARO is retiring his popular syndicated comic 'Bizarro,' which has often reflected his interest in animal rights. DUNCAN STRAUSS gets the lowdown on what's next--and when.
- [ROCK, ROCK, ROCK! (1956)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/08/03/rock-rock-rock-1956/) - ROCK, ROCK, ROCK! Yes, it has Cirino & the Bowties but it also has CHUCK BERRY, LAVERN BAKER, THE FLAMINGOS and other '50s greats, plus TEDDY RANDAZZO and, in her first film, 13-year-old TUESDAY WELD
- [Lyricist Yip Harburg's Son Ernie: How My Dad Inspired Me to Become a Scientist (Part 1)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/08/13/lyricist-yip-harburgs-son-ernie-how-my-dad-inspired-me-to-become-a-scientist-part-1/) - ERNIE HARBURG, son of the great lyricist YIP HARBURG, offers a two-part essay on life with father, and how father inspired son to become a scientist.
- [Art Songs, Folk Texts](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/08/13/art-songs-folk-texts/) - In praise of POPULAIRES, a fascinating exploration of art songs with folk texts, by French Algerian soprano AMEL BRAHIM-DJELLOUL and pianist Nicolas Jouve, Reviewed by ROBERT HUGILL of Planet Hugill.
- [The Bassoon, In Search of Love](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/08/03/the-bassoon-in-search-of-love/) - DANIEL SMITH enlists a stellar supporting cast and again proves the bassoon's viability as a lead instrument of great expressiveness on his new album, JAZZ SUITE FOR BASSOON
- [Akiko Miyakoshi: Pure Magic](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/07/12/akiko-miyakoshi-pure-magic/) - In this installment, JULES waxes properly rhapsodic about author-illustrator AKIKO MIYAKOSHI's new book, THE TEA PARTY IN THE WOODS: 'The visuals are pure magic.'
- [Surf in Verse (2015 Edition)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/07/12/surf-in-verse-2015-edition/) - Poets extol surfing's physical and metaphysical joys. 'Illustrated' with surf classics by JACK NITZSCHE, THE MARKETTS, THE TORQUAYS, THE NEW DIMENSIONS & THE SHADOWS
- [Herb, Herby, Herbert. Daddy.](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/07/14/herb-herby-herbert-daddy/) - LIterate, witty, loving, insightful: a daughter remembers her unique father on the occasion of the centennial of his birth.
- [No, No Mortal Man This](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/07/21/no-no-mortal-man-this/) - Finally, a solo album from the legendary lead singer of the Persuasions, JERRY LAWSON. Expertly produced by ERIC BRACE, JUST A MORTAL MAN is a powerful showcase moment for one of the greatest soul singers of all time.
- [The Eternal Ache in Full, Glorious Flower](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/08/03/the-eternal-ache-in-full-glorious-flower/) - The timelessness of CARTER FAMILY songs is underscored in DON'T FORGET ME LITTLE DARLING, an homage by ANTIQUE PERSUASION, a trio of roots veterans that has made one of 2015's finest albums.
- [It’s Life, Y’know](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/07/14/its-life-yknow/) - It's the centennial year of MUDDY WATERS's birth, and two new tributes mark that special occasion: MUDDY WATERS 100, featuring contemporary Muddy acolytes, and the DVD, BLUES SUMMIT IN CHICAGO, 1974
- ['Season Of A Child'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/10/12/christine-santellis-video-of-the-month-2/) - At the Rockwood Music Hall in New York City, Christine Santelli performs her original song ‘Season of a Child’ in this July 19, 2008 performance. For those in or visiting New York City, the PATH Café at 131 Christopher Street features Ms. Santelli hosting and performing an opening set at its Singer-Songwriter night every Wednesday
- [‘I Miss My Baby’ - Christine Santelli](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/11/13/find-my-way-home/) - Christine Santelli's Video of the Month is an acoustic version of her aching 'I Miss My Baby.' Ms. Santelli's Dragonfly CD was a 2012 Album of the Year honoree at Deep Roots.
- [With Love, From Batman](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/02/14/love-batman/) - Who knew the Dark Knight had such a soft heart? Some vintage Valentine's Day cards from Batman reveal the caped crusader's tender side. Copy, paste and send to your loved ones!
- [‘I Suppose It’s Playing the Game That Counts’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/07/12/i-suppose-its-playing-the-game-that-counts/) - During a tough year in which she lost three friends and her "pep" as a writer, WILLA CATHER unburdened herself to her younger brother. In the end she found a reason to believe.
- [Harpsichord In a New World](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/07/12/harpsichord-in-a-new-world/) - MAHAN ESFAHANI continues to break new ground for the harpsichord on his latest CD, TIME PRESENT AND TIME PAST. Review by ROBERT HUGILL.
- [Way Out Western Swing…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/07/12/way-out-western-swing/) - Best known as a jazz singer, SOLITAIRE MILES, in the guise of SUSIE BLUE, makes a convincing western swing chanteuse on her new album.
- [‘A Man to Evoke Respect and Love Under All Conditions’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/07/12/a-man-to-evoke-respect-and-love-under-all-conditions/) - From his 1899 book FAMOUS VIOLINISTS OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY, HENRY C. LAHEE offers a balanced profile of Norway's violin virtuoso OLE BULL, replete with musical excerpts.
- [Reality Check](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/06/19/reality-check-2/) - On April 5, 1968, the day after MARTIN LUTHER KING's assassination, ROBERT F. KENNEDY addressed 'The Mindless Menace of Violence' in a speech in Cleveland that resonates ever louder in 2015, after Charleston.
- [Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles--and Allen Klein](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/06/26/sam-cooke-the-rolling-stones-the-beatles-and-allen-klein/) - MICHAEL SIGMAN reflects on ALLEN KLEIN, in light of FRED GOODMAN's acclaimed new biography of the man who 'bailed out the Beatles, made the Rolling Stones and transformed rock and roll.'
- [A Tribute to B.B. King](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/05/15/a-tribute-to-b-b-king/) - Remembering B.B.: The making of the King of the Blues's 1981 Grammy winning album THERE MUST BE A BETTER WORLD SOMEWHERE with songs by DOC POMUS and DR. JOHN
- [Discovering Something Outside the Realm of the Everyday](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/26/discovering-something-outside-realm-everyday/) - The album 'LOCKWOOD' and its author, JEREMIAH LOCKWOOD, are the genuine real deal. Behold timeless blues.
- [NASA Study Finds Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf Nearing Its Final Act](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/05/15/nasa-study-finds-antarcticas-larsen-b-ice-shelf-nearing-its-final-act/) - 'Bad news for the planet': A NASA study has found that the last remaining section of Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf is likely to be gone by decade's end.
- [Remembering Pete Seeger](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/29/remembering-pete-seeger/) - Remembering PETE SEEGER by those who knew him and in his own words. The first of a two-part tribute.
- [The Bells of Saint Thomas Wept](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/08/13/the-bells-of-saint-thomas-were-bereft/) - Remembering JOHN SCOTT (1956-2015), Music Director of Saint Thomas Church in New York City, who died suddenly on August 12. 'The only glory John sought was the glory of God.'
- [2013’s Elite Half-Hundred - Part I](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/02/17/2013s-elite-half-hundred-2/) - Selections 1-25 of the 2013 Elite Half Hundred include THE BENEDICTINES OF MARY, QUEEN OF APOSTLES, STEEP CANYON RANGERS, DAILEY & VINCENT, ALAN JACKSON, et al.
- [Live’r Than They’ll Ever Be](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/07/03/liver-than-theyll-ever-be/) - From tapes surreptitiously recorded in 1967 comes a smokin' live album featuring JOHN MAYALL'S BLUESBREAKERS with PETER GREEN, JOHN MCVIE and MICK FLEETWOOD supporting Mayall.
- [Breaking News: Chubby Checker Says Penis Measuring App Damages His Reputation. Question: What Reputation?](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/02/15/breaking-news-chubby-checker-says-penis-measuring-app-damages-his-reputation-question-what-reputation/) - Chubby's riled up about the Chubby Checker App. He should be thankful for the publicity.
- [Fifty Shades Stokes Interest in Early Music--But for How Long?](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/09/25/fifty-shades-stokes-interest-in-early-music-but-for-how-long/) - In we attempt to answer the penetrating question: Will the current revival of interest in early music via Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album retain its tumescence even after the trilogy’s commercial fortunes have gone flaccid?
- [Written In the Land](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/10/12/written-in-the-land/) - Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of over 25,000 years of Aboriginal occupation within this area, and Kakadu's rock art (gunbim) represents the longest historical record of any group of people in the world
- [Man, Dog, Rooster, Love: Brian McGrory’s Shaggy Story](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/01/15/man-dog-rooster-love-brian-mcgrorys-shaggy-story/) - Boston Globe editor BRIAN MCGRORY says his dog Harry and his inherited-through-marriage rooster Buddy have made him a better man. In fact, he crows about all this, so to speak, in a terrific new book and in a new Talking Animals installment.
- [Ride Lonesome (1959)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/01/15/ride-lonesome-1959/) - It's back to the old west for Deep Roots Theater, as we present the penultimate film in director Budd Boetticher's 'Ranown Cycle,' RIDE LONESOME, starring Randolph Scott and written by Burt Kennedy. With the 1959 cartoon, 'Pill Peddlers,' starring Heckle and Jeckle.
- [Karl Jenkins: The Path To 'Peacemakers'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/01/15/karl-jenkins-the-path-to-peacemakers/) - EXCLUSIVE: One of our Album of the Year honorees for his epic choral work The Peacemakers, composer/conductor/multi-instrumentalist Karl Jenkins discusses the making and meaning of the album, and his unusual career path.
- [Gutless Vandals Desecrate Tommy Johnson’s Grave; Eddie C. Campbell Benefit Set](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/02/04/gutless-vandals-desecrate-tommy-johnsons-gravestone/) - Gutless vandals desecrate Delta blues giant TOMMY JOHNSON's grave; benefit set for Chicago blues guitar great EDDIE C. CAMPBELL, who suffered a heart attack and stroke while on tour.
- [‘Unaccountably Odd’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/02/12/unaccountably-odd/) - 'Unaccountably Odd': a musical and sexual adventurer, possibly a racist, and a composer ahead of his time, PERCY GRAINGER led a most unusual life, and now lives on in a new album by the BILDER DUO. A reconsideration is in order.
- [A Visit with Matthew Cordell to Talk About What is Still My Favorite Picture Book of the Year](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/11/13/a-visit-with-matthew-cordell-to-talk-about-what-is-still-my-favorite-picture-book-of-the-year/) - An interview with Matthew Cordell, author/illustrator of our kids' lit blogger Jules's favorite book of the year, hello! hello!
- [Forevermore](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/11/16/forevermore/) - His voice belongs to the ages now: Cleveland Duncan, lead tenor of The Penguins, died on November 6, shortly after casting his ballot in the Presidential election. Remembering the great lead singer who made 'Earth Angel' immortal.
- [Factoid: Casablanca Is 70](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/11/19/factoid-casablanca-is-70-2/) - On November 26, 1942, Warner Bros. premiered its new Michael Curtiz-directed film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Hans Conreid. In 'Casablanca is 70," we reveal some fascinating factoids and falsehoods about the production, and also pay a 40th anniversary tribute to the best film ever inspired by "Casablanca," Woody Allen's "Play It Again, Sam."
- [Informal, Intimate and Memorable: Edie Adams Celebrates the Season](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/12/04/informal-intimate-and-memorable-edie-adams-celebrates-the-season/) - Pieced together from audio clips Edie Adams paid a transcription service to record so she could tweak her performances on The Ernie Kovacs Show, The Edie Adams Christmas Album is informal, intimate and memorable--a raft of charming performances of Yuletide favorites by a woefully underrated artist. A 2012 Christmas Pick.
- [A-Caroling They Go…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/12/11/a-caroling-they-go/) - Everyone knows about 'A Child's Christmas in Wales,' thanks to Dylan Thomas's eloquence, but what exactly goes on in Wales at Christmas? Well, a lot of caroling, for one. This month's Border Crossings takes a look at "Christmas in Wales," and how Christmas past informs Christmas present in Thomas's native land.
- [Baby Penguins Everywhere!: A Chat with Melissa Guion](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/12/11/baby-penguins-everywhere-a-chat-with-melissa-guion/) - I welcome new-to-the-field illustrator MELISSA GUION. She’s here to share some of her bright, gentle watercolors and talk about her debut title, Baby Penguins Everywhere!, a picture book as much for the parents and teachers of this world as it is for children.
- [Auroras](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/12/12/auroras/) - In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this continental laboratory of landscapes. The greatest of the tide-water glaciers appropriately commemorates his name. Upon this book of
- [Joy To The World](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/12/12/joy-to-the-world/) - A wonderful and heartwarming thing happened when the Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Family Band showed up at the University of Mary Washington to play a program of evocative, sometimes poignant, sometimes haunting seasonal tunes, new and old. It's all there on A Fiddler's Holiday, the CD and the accompanying PBS special. A 2012 Christmas Pick.
- [Talking Turkey and Radiating on the 88s](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/12/18/talking-turkey-and-radiating-on-the-88s/) - Mitch Woods and the Rocket 88s got the crowds in Turkey all shook up on the Efes Blues Festival tour in October 2010. A new CD/DVD set preserves a record of the boogie woogie flu and rockin' pneumonia the fellows infected the crowds with.
- [Charles Dickens And Music: Some Noted Singers   (Chapter VII)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/10/12/charles-dickens-and-music/) - Continuing our bicentennial salute to Charles Dickens, this month's installment of James. T. Lightwood's 1912 treatise Charles Dickens and Music focuses on "Some Noted Singers."
- [You Feel Them?](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/10/12/you-feel-them/) - The last time we heard from the Grascals, in the summer of 2011, they were doing God’s work in crafting a tribute to the music of The Andy Griffith Show on an EP titled Dance Til Your Stockings Are Hot and Ravelin’, when the good Sheriff of Mayberry was still with us to enjoy the
- [Farm Bill Update](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/10/12/farm-bill-update/) - The fate of the Farm Bill, the effects of its not being passed, and wither the conservation compliance provisions? Plus, a statement in support of Conservation Compliance by the American Farmland Trust.
- [Ricky Skaggs: Honoring Faith, Family and Tradition](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/10/12/ricky-skaggs-honoring-faith-family-and-tradition/) - Only two years have passed since Ricky Skaggs blessed us with some new music, but even a cursory listen to the vibrant playing and singing on Music To My Ears may have fans thinking, It's nice to have him back. And they would be right. This is state of the art bluegrass, centered on family, faith and tradition in a way only Ricky Skaggs can do it.
- [Rocketship X-M](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/10/12/rocketship-x-m/) - DEEP ROOTS THEATER: Now playiing--Rocketship X-M, a 1950 sci-fi opus starring Lloyd Bridges in a script by blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo that subtly proselytizes against the hazards of nuclear at a time when The Bomb was casting a large shadow over civilization. The film's eerie original music was composed by Ferde Grofé, better known as the composer of Grand Canyon Suite. Plus a Woody Woodpecker cartoon from 1947.
- [From a Master, A Master Class in Blues](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/11/03/from-a-master-a-master-class-in-blues/) - There was a missing link in Louisiana Red’s recording odyssey, and it has been revealed on a new release from Labor Records, When My Mama Was Living, recorded in the early '70s in upstate New York and now seeing the light of day for the first time. This 16-track gem can be heard as Red summing up his musical journey to that point and getting ready to move forward.
- [NASA'S Fermi Measures Cosmic 'Fog' Produced by Ancient Starlight](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/11/08/nasas-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 shone. Also, a review and free download of Dennis R. Jenkins's new e-book Dressing for Altitude, a history of U.S. aviation pressure suits, from Wiley Post to the Space Shuttle.
- [A Day With Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/11/12/a-day-with-felix-mendelssohn-bartholdy/) - Ever wonder what it would have been like to spend a day with, say, Felix Mendelssoh? Especially a day when Robert Schumann shows up? George Sampson did just that, and set down the experience for posterity.
- [Of The Word, Dark Secrets and Inconvenient Truths](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/11/13/of-the-word-dark-secrets-and-inconvenient-truths/) - A review of gospel authority ANTHONY HEILBUT's new book of incisive, informed essays, The Fan Who Knew Too Much, which includes a lengthy examination of the gay subculture within the gospel world. Also: an interview with Mr. Heilbut.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks - November 2012](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/11/13/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-2/) - New gospel album reviews: Karen Washington, Le'Andria Johnson, Adrian Murray, Jonathan McReynolds, Darius Paulk, Shanon Harris.
- [Ever Fresh: A Half-Century of ‘Green Onions’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/09/18/ever-fresh-a-half-century-of-green-onions/) - In honor of the 50th anniversary of ‘Green Onions,’ we salute BOOKER T. & THE M.G.s’ reissued debut album of the same name, along with the group’s reissued-remastered 1970 Beatles tribute, McLemore Avenue, all-instrumental versions of the Abbey Road songs.
- [The Perfect ‘Storm’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/09/15/the-perfect-storm/) - One of our great contemporary gospel singers has returned from a four-year recording hiatus with her strongest album yet. 'Til The Storm Passes By captures the versatile Lynda Randle at her testifying best on a powerhouse collection of new and vintage praise and worship songs, backed by a stellar, versatile band.
- [The Man In Black, In All Dimensions](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/09/11/the-man-in-black-in-all-dimensionsfive-new-collections-mark-johnny-cashs-80th-birthday-year/) - 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.
- [SUNRISE - 1927](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/09/11/life-on-film-pure-and-simple/) - DEEP ROOTS THEATER: Now Playing--'Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans,' F.W. Murnau's silent classic from 1927, with extra added attraction 'Sinkin' n the Bathtub,' the first Looney Tunes cartoon, starring Bosko and Honey (1930).
- [Seven Questions Over Breakfast with Klaas Verplancke](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/04/04/seven-questions-breakfast-klaas-verplancke/) - JULES's latest virtual breakfast is with noted illustrator KLAAS VERPLANCKE, whose art is described by a fellow illustrator as 'strange, yet strangely comforting. Beautifully crafted, and beautifully bonkers.'
- [Up-and-Coming Illustrator Brooke Boynton Hughes: ‘I Love Residing in Imagined Worlds’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/07/21/coming-illustrator-brooke-boynton-hughes-love-residing-imagined-worlds/) - This month JULES interviews a real find in children's books in up-and-coming illustrator BROOKE BOYNTON HUGHES, who tells us she loves 'residing in imagined worlds.'
- [Springing Into Spring with Leslie Evans](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/04/16/springing-into-spring-with-leslie-evans/) - Spring has sprung, and so has some fine new work by illustrator LESLIE EVANS, in Carole Gerber's new book, Spring Blossoms. Stop in as JULES chats with Leslie and shows off her latest seasonal illustrations.
- [The Latest from Komako Sakai](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/05/14/the-latest-from-komako-sakai/) - As I’ve made clear before here at 7-Imp, I’m a fan of the illustration work of Komako Sakai (who even visited for a brief interview last year). So, I was happy to see that she’s illustrated a new book, this one written by Hatsue Nakawaki. It’s called Wait! Wait!, and it’s for very young children. It will be released by Enchanted Lion Books in June, but I’ve got a sneak-peek of it today.
- [Bully: A Visit with Laura Vaccaro Seeger](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/28/bully-a-visit-with-laura-vaccaro-seeger/) - Pictured above is an early image from Caldecott Honor medalist Laura Vaccaro Seeger’s Bully, released in July from Neal Porter/Roaring Brook. A little birdie (named Neal Porter, in fact) told me months ago that Laura created the illustrations for this book with a twig and hand-made paper. I knew I wanted to learn more about
- [Ingrid Godon’s Emotionally Resonant Art](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/11/13/ingrid-godons-emotionally-resonant-art/) - The 7 Imp spotlight is on SYLVIE NEEMAN's book SOMETHING BIG and its emotionally resonant art by INGRID GODON.
- [‘Africa Is My Home’: Captivating Look at a Captivating Woman](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/25/africa-home-captivating-look-captivating-woman/) - JULES considers 'AFRICA IS MY HOME,' the fictionalized story of a real-life child named Margru, taken from her home by slave traders in West Africa, and brought to the U.S. on the Armistad.
- [Make Way for Lucky Ducklings & Yu Byun’s ‘Diminutive Paradise’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/03/13/make-way-for-lucky-ducklings-yu-byuns-diminutive-paradise/) - JULES declares Eva Moore's LUCKY DUCKLINGS, illustrated by NANCY CARPENTER, to be one of 2013's great picture books, and introduces us to DREAM FRIENDS by an impressive debut artist, YOU BYUN.
- [‘There Is a Great Desire in All Souls for What Is Good and Beautiful’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/03/03/great-desire-souls-good-beautiful/) - The BENEDICTINES OF MARY, QUEEN OF APOSTLES are back with another moving seasonal epistle to follow last year's chart busting Angels and Saints. LENT AT EPHESUS, the sisters' new album, is a true sacred masterpiece.
- [It’s a Giraffe! It’s a Horse! It’s a Zebra! <br />No, It’s an Okapi, the Odd Duck of the Congo](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/03/05/okapi-horse-zebra/) - 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 working hard to save it from extinction.
- [The Biologist’s Folk Songs](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/12/biologists-folk-songs/) - Inspired by Moravian folk songs transcribed by Dr. Vladimir Ulehla, DAVALA--the duo of ARAM BAJAKIAN and Dr. Ulehla's daughter, JULIE ULEHLA--reinvigorate those songs for modern ears.
- [A Beautiful Day in Ms. Rogers’ Neighborhood](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/10/beautiful-day-ms-rogers-neighborhood/) - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood when KIMM ROGERS dives into her songs on WHERE THE PAVEMENT GROWS and asks: 'Would you be mine? Could you be mine?'
- [My Summer Romance (2015 edition)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/06/11/my-summer-romance-2015-edition/) - Four stories of seasonal love, with music provided by JOHNNY RIVERS, GARY LEWIS & THE PLAYBOYS, PERCY FAITH and words of love by SHAKESPEARE
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/06/11/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-21/) - The latest and hottest in new gospel CDs: CASEY J, BRAD & REBEKAH, THE SHOWERS, THE GOSPEL ANGELS, TRACEY MCFADDEN, ROBERT E. PERSON
- [It Might As Well Be Spring](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/04/20/it-might-as-well-be-spring/) - Although it was not be design, noted jazz drummer-arranger-composer JERRY KALAF seems to have found the essence of Springtime on his pastoral new album, WELCOME TO EARTH
- [Updike & Easter, 2015](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/04/03/updike-easter-2015/) - Seven new perspectives on John Updike's enduring Easter poem, 'Seven Stanzas at Easter.'
- [Condemned To Live (1935)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/12/condemned-live-1935/) - From 1935, CONDEMNED TO LIVE, a film sympathetic to vampires, and as a short subject from 1954, the Famous Studios anti-smoking cartoon, 'NO IFS, ANDS OR BUTTS,' starring Buzzy and Katnip.
- [Chaplin’s Masterpiece: ‘The Gold Rush’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/22/chaplins-masterpiece-gold-rush/) - About the making of THE GOLD RUSH, the film for which CHARLIE CHAPLIN said he most wanted to be remembered. The final installment of our 125th birthday anniversary celebration
- [Bob Durst, Camp Counselor](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/04/03/bob-durst-camp-counselor/) - MICHAEL SIGMAN remembers an odd summer camp season in 1964 when his camp counselor was an odd duck named BOB DURST, now an infamous accused murderer.
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/04/20/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-20/) - A great crop of new gospel CDs to consider. Featuring THE FAIRFIELD FOUR, THE NEW CHRISTIANAIRES, THE SUPREME ANGELS, MISSISSIPPI MASS CHOIR, TAY CLEMONS and JOR'DAN ARMSTRONG.
- [Stirring the Heart, Captivating the Mind](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/30/stirring-heart-captivating-mind/) - The young order of contemplative nuns based in Missouri and known as BENEDICTINES OF MARY, QUEEN OF APOSTLES stir the heart and captivate the mind on EASTER AT EPHESUS.
- [Time, Time, Time, See What’s Become of Me](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/30/time-time-time-see-whats-become/) - What's better than one new DONNA HUGHES album? Answer: two new DONNA HUGHES albums. The gifted bluegrass singer-songwriter is back with FROM THE HEART and FLY. We appraise, and praise.
- [The Elite Half Hundred of 2014 (Part 2)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/30/elite-half-hundred-2014-part-2/) - THE 442s and FARMER JASON bookend Nos. 26-50 of the ELITE HALF HUNDRED OF 2014.
- [Pandemonium’s Michele Raffin: A Real Bird Brain](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/12/pandemoniums-michelle-raffin-real-bird-brain/) - A chance meeting with an injured bird changed the course of MICHELE RAFFIN's life. Now the founder of PANDEMONIUM AVIARIES is committed to preserving endangered bird species, right in her own back yard.
- [Love Remembered, In the Heart and On the Front Lines](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/21/love-remembered-heart-front-lines/) - In a selection of songs by British composers of the first 50 years of the 20th Century,mezzo-soprano KATHRYN RUDGE, with pianist JAMES BAILLIEU, uncover some lost gems and revitalize familiar ones.
- [Black Sacred Music, A.D. to B.D.](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/19/black-sacred-music-d-b-d/) - An essential overview of black scared folk music recorded between 1926 A.D. (After Arizona Dranes) and 1936 B.D. (Before Thomas Dorsey)
- [The Deep Meaning of Passover For Us All](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/04/03/the-deep-meaning-of-passover-for-us-all/) - For MIA SHERWOOD LANDAU, Passover 'is more than a holiday to honor history.' For her, it's an opportunity to 'celebrate my own personal freedom from spiritual oppression.' Allow her to explain.
- [John W. James: Grief Guru to Bereaved Pet Owners](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/30/john-w-james-grief-guru-bereaved-pet-owners/) - Lessons learned from the loss of a son inspired JOHN W. JAMES to develop a method of grief recovery for those mourning a different kind of loss--of beloved pets. DUNCAN STRAUSS has the story.
- [Soul Stirring Joy](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/21/soul-stirring-joy/) - Gospel editor BOB MAROVICH weighs in on a new Soul Stirrers retrospective from the group's SAR Records years. Recommending this double-CD set: four previously unreleased Stirrers sides.
- [‘It’s Almost Like We’re Standing Against an Evil Giant’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/10/almost-like-standing-evil-giant/) - NAVAJO WOMEN are rising up against unfettered oil and gas development on Native lands; a statue of CHIEF JOSEPH of the Nez Perce is going into Statuary Hall.
- [Tough Love? Tough Stuff.](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/11/tough-love-tough-stuff/) - Bluesman TINSLEY ELLIS's new CD, TOUGH LOVE, proves itself tough stuff indeed--10 original songs played and sung with conviction to burn.
- [Bryan Collier’s Trombone Shorty Moment](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/11/bryan-colliers-trombone-shorty-moment/) - TROMBONE SHORTY is releasing a picture book autobiography next month, with superb illustrations by BRYAN COLLIER. JULES has the lowdown, and some pics.
- [NASA’s Chandra Observatory Finds Cosmic Showers Halt Galaxy Growth](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/11/nasas-chandra-observatory-finds-cosmic-showers-halt-galaxy-growth/) - NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has uncovered surprising news about a process that is stifling star formation in a distant galaxy cluster. It's been going on for 7 billion years.
- [If the Magnificent Landscapes of Wales Sang…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/11/magnificent-landscapes-wales-sang/) - JOSEPH NEWSOME of VOIX DES ARTS takes stock of a fine new setting of composer ALAN HODDINOTT's SONG CYCLES AND FOLK SONGS featuring NICKY SPENCE and CLAIRE BOOTH, among others.
- [To Fresh Buds](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/11/fresh-buds/) - Navona Records has issued a complete disc of composer GREGORY W. BROWN's music on MOONSTRUNG AIR, performed by NEW YORK POLYPHONY and THE CROSSING.
- [To Attract and To Intrigue](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/11/attract-intrigue/) - On THE ORIGIN OF ADJUSTABLE THINGS, jazz singer/composer JOANNA WALLFISCH, accompanied by pianist DAN TEPFER, offers new songs and inspired covers in a variety of styles.
- [Music a Remedy](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/11/music-remedy/) - In his monumental ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, published in 1621, ROBERT BURTON argued for, among other things, music as a remedy for melancholy. It might work.
- [‘Grass Is the Forgiveness of Nature—Her Constant Benediction’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/03/grass-forgiveness-nature-constant-benediction/) - In 1872 Kansas Sen. JOHN JAMES INGALLS, one of the U.S. Senate's most eloquent voices, praised the vitality of the tallgrass prairie in IN PRAISE OF BLUEGRASS--and he wasn't talking music.
- [A Stop at Theresa’s](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/03/stop-theresas/) - It was Junior Wells’s return to the Delmark fold; it was the titan Otis Spann’s last recording session. Buddy Guy was on guitar, Fred Below on drums. The spirit was that of Theresa's Lounge. Stop by.
- [Just Like Old Times](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/03/just-like-old-times/) - JIM ED BROWN makes a stirring comeback with IN STYLE AGAIN; ROB ICKES & TREY HENSLEY deliver one for old times' sake in BEFORE THE SUN GOES DOWN.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/03/03/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-19/) - 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.
- [Joy To the World](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/07/21/joy-world/) - Bluegrass Buddhist PETER ROWAN examines his personal spiritual journey on DHARMA BLUES and offers some insights we should all take to heart.
- [Return of the Slide Guitar Titan](https://deeprootsmag.org/2012/09/07/return-of-the-slide-guitar-titan/) - Eleven albums into his career the titan of the slide guitar Sonny Landreth demonstrates what an artist is made of by continuing to find new and challenging avenues of expression. On Elemental Journey the task he sets for himself is to do solely with his guitar what he’s done with guitar and vocals on his
- [‘Please Enjoy This Album. Or Don’t! Whatever.’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/04/04/please-enjoy-album-dont-whatever/) - Does classical music drive loiterers out of public places? Studies say so, and violinist GIL SHAHAM is counting on his music to further the burgeoning trend on MUSIC TO DRIVE LOITERERS AWAY. He hopes everyone enjoys the album. Or not. Whatever.
- [Existential Bluegrass](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/10/05/existential-bluegrass/) - Bluegrass existentialists THE ROYS are back with THE VIEW, comprised of songs pondering the burden of memory as time marches on, along with philosophical appraisals of quotidian troubles and joys.
- [Cascada de Flores: Reimagining Latin American Radio’s Golden Era](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/10/05/cascada-de-flores-reimagining-latin-american-radios-golden-era/) - On RADIO FLOR, CASCADA DE FLORES brings the beauty of a distant era of Mexican radio into the present, very much alive and in full bloom.
- [The Old Guard Hated the Rock But Loved the Bankroll (Field Notes From a Music Biz Life, Part 4)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/10/05/old-guard-hates-rock-loved-bankroll-field-notes-music-biz-life-part-4/) - In Part 4 of his autobiography, MICHAEL SIGMAN explains why the old guard post-war pop songwriters 'hated the rock but loved the bankroll'
- [An Imaginative Exploration of The Sound-World of The Early Celtic Church](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/10/05/imaginative-exploration-sound-world-early-celtic-church/) - Music composer ROBERT HUGILL's review leads this appraisal of a fascinating, haunting new album exploring the sound of the early Celtic church.
- [An Empress On the Forgotten Paths of Russian Song](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/10/27/empress-forgotten-paths-russian-song/) - Venturing down forgotten paths of Russian song on her new album, ST PETERSBURG, Empress of Song CECILIA BARTOLI offers a virtuoso performance of the long-hidden body of music composed for the Romanov court.
- [How to Win Charts and Alienate People](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/19/win-charts-alienate-people/) - In this two-part excerpt from his memoir, JUST REMEMBER: FIELD NOTES FROM A MUSIC BIZ LIFE, MICHAEL SIGMAN recalls the fallout from Record World's decision to publish sales-based charts, and how The Who changed the magazine's fate.
- [Christmas Blues with a Positive Spin](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/02/christmas-blues-positive-spin/) - Appraising a Yuletide gem from Carolina beach music legend, soul veteran CLIFFORD CURRY, and a look back at Curry's interesting career.
- [45 Years Later, Still Right on Time](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/02/45-years-later-still-right-time/) - The tipoff is in the title: MERRY CHRISTMAS WITH MARTY ROBBINS. One of country's greatest singers is intimately involved in the thoughtful songs he shares with us for the Yuletide including two of his own.
- [Everything Old Is New Again](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/12/02/everything-old-new/) - On CHRISTMAS, the platinum-plus Australian Christian artist PETER FURLER teams with Vintage Christmas aficionado DAVID IAN for a soothing, introspective, jazz-based seasonal rumination.
- [Sean Costello, Fully Present](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/12/sean-costello-fully-present/) - Finally seeing the light of day after being recorded in 2005, SEAN COSTELLO's IN THE MAGIC SHOP is more than a fitting final tribute--it's a masterpiece by an artist who is fully present in all dimensions.
- [‘We’ll Promise Not To Hurt Her Anymore’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/12/well-promise-not-hurt-anymore/) - Staring 2015 on a topical note, North Carolina singer-songwriter LAURELYN DOSSETT has posted a video of her new song, 'THE RIVER'S LAMENT,' inspired by the Dan River Coal Ash Spill of Feb. 2014
- [Torn Between Two Bosses, Not Feeling Like a Fool](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/12/torn-two-bosses-not-feeling-like-fool/) - BOB AUSTIN and SID PARNES were partners as the owners of RECORD WORLD magazine but otherwise had no use for each other. As RW editor, MICHAEL SIGMAN had to get along with both.
- [Bluegrass Cum Laude, And Then Some](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/12/bluegrass-cum-laude/) - DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER begin 2015 with honors with bluegrass cum laude on IN SESSION. Highest honors here, and well earned.
- [On the Spiritual Cost of Leaving](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/19/spiritual-cost-leaving/) - Produced by LORRAINE JORDAN, North Carolina's THE GENTLEMEN OF BLUEGRASS make a thorough examination of the physical and metaphysical cost of leaving on their debut album.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks](https://deeprootsmag.org/2015/01/19/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-18/) - New picks include work by the REV. CHARLES JACKSON, J. MOSS, MEKA KING, MIGHTY MEN OF FAITH, WILLIAMS BROTHERS, EDDIE JAMES, BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA & TAJ MAHAL and others.
- [Beethoven Bids You a Happy St. Patrick’s Day!](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/03/17/beethoven-bids-happy-st-patricks-day/) - A happy St. Patrick's Day to our Irish friends, with additional greetings in song from none other than Ludwig Van Beethoven, who wrote 72 settings of Irish songs for voice, violin, cello and piano. Enjoy a couple of those settings at Deep Roots.
- [I Meet Thomas Burke and H.G. Wells](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/11/04/meet-thomas-burke-h-g-wells/) - In his 1922 travel memoir My Trip Abroad, CHARLIE CHAPLIN recalls his nerve wracking introduction to author THOMAS BURKE and a more sublime encounter with H.G. WELLS.
- [Listen. Remember.](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/09/03/listen-remember/) - Canadian-born singer-songwriter ALEJANDRA RIBERA talks about one of this year's most mesmerizing albums, her own 'LA BOCA'
- [A Gathering of Voices, in Celebration and Covenant](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/10/05/gathering-voices-celebration-covenant/) - Continuing a journey embarked upon three albums ago, MOIRA SMILEY & VOCO and The Choir of YOU bring voices, instruments and a gumbo of American and Eastern European folk music together on LAUGHTER OUT OF TEARS.
- [They Made Me a Criminal (1939)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/10/27/made-criminal-1939/) - Now showing: THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL, the 1939 Busby Berkeley-directed drama of a boxer on the run starring JOHN GARFIELD, THE DEAD END KIDS, CLAUDE RAINS and the ill-fated GLORIA DICKSON. Also: More Busby Berkeley, plus GOOFY's first solo cartoon venture.
- [No Down Payment (1957)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/03/05/payment-1957/) - In 1957 director MARTIN RITT shattered the facade of bucolic suburban life in post-war America in his lost classic, NO DOWN PAYMENT. TONY RANDALL, JOANNE WOODWARD and PAT HINGLE lead an excellent cast. Plus two obscure Popeye-related cartoons.
- [Do Right Woman, Do Right Man](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/02/20/right-woman-right-man/) - No longer incommunicado, BILL POWERS and SHELLEY GRAY are back with some friends as HONEY DON'T. The group's second album, HEART LIKE A WHEEL, is a solid advance over the group's 2009 self-titled debut.
- [Beat Me Daddy, Five to the Bar: Best Albums of 2013](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/02/19/beat-daddy-five-bar-best-albums-2013/) - Led by MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY's career statement RED RIVER DRIFTER, our Albums of the Year honorees offer a wide range of musical experiences in different styles.
- [From Any Angle, It’s Still the Blues](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/03/12/angle-still-blues/) - BLUESMAN and former boxer GRADY CHAMPION is launching his new label with strong albums from his first signings: EDDIE COTTON with HERE I COME and JJ THAMES with TELL YOU WHAT I KNOW
- [Spring in Verse](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/03/12/spring-verse/) - Spring cannot arrive too soon, and we anticipate its arrival in verse from SHAKESPEARE, EMILY DICKINSON, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH and other, and in song from MARK O'CONNOR, VIVALDI et al.
- [Rhonda’s Revenge](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/03/12/rhonda-vincent-only-me/) - Though she says it was inspired by George Jones, Rhonda Vincent's ONLY ME, a double-CD release containing one side of country and one of bluegrass, has n other message to send. Call it Rhonda's Revenge.
- [An On-Time Messenger for the Lord](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/03/12/time-messenger-lord/) - It takes no special insight to point out the kinship of blues and gospel but 81-year-old LEO 'BUD' WELCH's debut album, Sabougla Voices, presses that truth home with a ferocity and unwavering conviction remarkable even for these most deeply personal musical styles.
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks — October 2013](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/28/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-13/) - Reviews of new gospel releases by E. BARNES, JANICE BROWN, THE JONES FAMILY SINGERS, HOSTYLE GOSPEL, SKY JASPER, BRYAN POPIN and EARNEST PUGH.
- [Pastor Charles Jenkins & Fellowship Chicago: Inspiring People](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/pastor-charles-jenkins-fellowship-chicago-inspiring-people/) - PASTOR CHARLES JENKINS of FELLOWSHIP CHICAGO reflects on on the impact of his choir's smash hit single, 'AWESOME,' and looks ahead to new challenges. An exclusive interview with Gospel Editor BOB MAROVICH
- [Angels and Demons](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/11/angels-and-demons/) - Angels and Demons: TOO SLIM AND THE TAILDRAGGERS are back with vengeance on BLUE HEART. Nothing much is at stake her, other than Slim's soul.
- [Video Moment of the Week](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/04/04/video-moment-week-3/) - NU-BLU releases the third video from its tenth anniversary album, titled Ten. 'Without a Kiss,' a sensitive ballad addressed to a departed spouse, elicits one of Carolyn Routh's most affecting vocals.
- [Video Moment of the Week](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/03/28/video-moment-week-2/) - NU-BLU has released the second of three new videos of songs from its tenth anniversary album, appropriately titled TEN, this one being a warm, soothing bluegrass love song, 'It's a Good Day to Be With You.'
- [Video Moment of the Week](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/03/05/video-moment-week/) - Traditional bluegrass quartet NU-BLU is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, with a new album (Ten) and three new videos of songs from that album. The first of those videos is right here, 'Trains I Didn't Take.'
- [Contemporary Music](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/03/05/maurice-ravel/) - During a four-month concert tour of America in 1928, composer MAURICE RAVEL delivered a then-controversial lecture urging American classical musicians to incorporate African-American music into their compositions. Ahead of his time, was he?
- [ ‘Dramatic, Exciting and Cool’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/03/03/dramatic-exciting-cool/) - Now showing in selected cities across America, the riveting documentary PARTICLE FEVER chronicles the search for the elusive HIGGS BOSON, the 'God' particle that binds the universe together--a science story with a human touch.
- [A Song for Awuya](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/02/20/song-awuya/) - Acclaimed young harpist ANNE DENHOLM does wondrous things with composer-violist ANNE BEAMISH's 'Awuya,' a near-nine-minute composition commissioned to raise awareness about African sleeping sickness.
- [Bach by Thile (Not Thile Does Bach)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/28/bach-by-thile-not-thile-does-bach/) - It was inevitable: after flirting with Bach for his entire professional career, CHRIS THILE has released a solo album of the Baroque giant's Sonatas & Partitas. Reviewer CHRSITINE N. LAYTON hails it as a big winner.
- [Inside the Beagle Freedom Project](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/28/inside-the-beagle-freedom-project/) - At some 380 U.S. research institutions and labs, 70,000 dogs are being experimented on--and 96 percent of those dogs are beagles. DUNCAN STRAUSS has the story.
- [A Gene Kelly ‘Omnibus’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/02/09/gene-kelly-omnibus/) - In 1958 the distinguished Omnibus series commissioned GENE KELLY's first TV special. For the first time since its historic broadcast on December 21, 1958, Kelly's DANCING: A MAN'S GAME is available commercially, via DVD.
- ['Footlights,'  Chaplin Novella, Discovered, Restored, Seeking Publisher](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/02/09/footlights-discovered-restored-seeking-publisher/) - FOOTLIGHTS, the only work of prose fiction ever written by CHARLIE CHAPLIN, has been pieced together from handwritten notes, typed scripts and vignettes and now seeks a publisher. Any takers out there?
- [Beatles '64: Surmounting Media Skeptics, Fab Four Carve Out a Career](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/02/09/beatles-survive-skeptical-press-career/) - THE BEATLES were greeted by a skeptical, sometimes dismissive mainstream media as Beatlemania broke out abroad. On Feb. 9, 1964, the Fab Four dismissed the naysayers. Plus: The Beat Alls on The PowerPuff Girls.
- [The Floating World](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/02/02/floating-world/) - Can the Japanese today really look to Mother Nature to find out who they are? A visit to Hawaii spurs writer TOKUTA WONGSE-ONT to reflect on the lost 'floating world' that once was the Land of the Rising Sun.
- [She’s Got Hand](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/17/shes-got-hand/) - Born in Vietnam, now residing in the U.S., VAN-ANH VANESSA VO employs her country's traditional instruments in compelling fashion on her new album, THREE-MOUNTAIN PASS.
- [Catch Them If You Can](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/25/catch-can/) - THE BOXCARS' third album, Grammy-nominated IT'S JUST A ROAD, is the quintet's strongest amalgam yet of inspired covers and impressive original songs in a traditional bluegrass mode.
- [Sustainable Agriculture & Sustainable Environment Newswire](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/25/sustainable-agriculture-sustainable-environment-newswire/) - COCA-COLA has installed its 1 mllionth HFC-free cooler; BOEING and its research partners are harvesting biofuel from desert plants; Aquaponics & Earth is doing good deeds in Mexico.
- [Juaneco y su Combo and The Birth of Jungle Cumbia](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/25/juaneco-y-su-combo-birth-jungle-cumbia/) - Out of the Peruvian jungle in the late '60s came JUANECO y su COMBO with a new sound known as Jungle Cumbia. Two new releases highlight the band's incredible music and tragic-laden history. This is an event.
- [And The Truth Will Set You Free](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/25/truth-will-set-free/) - JAMES KING, one of our greatest roots singers, takes some classic and relatively low-profile country and bluegrass tunes, puts a great backing band together, and delivers a bonafide classic of interpretive vocalizing.
- [Remembering ‘The Undefeated Champion,’ Herman Johnson](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/21/remembering-the-undefeated-champion-herman-johnson/) - In a Deep Roots exclusive, MARK O'CONNOR offers a warm reminiscence of one of his fiddling mentors, HERMAN JOHNSON, who passed away on Jan. 20 at age 94.
- [The Many ‘Worlds’ of Mandolinist Extraordinaire Avi Avital](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/20/the-many-worlds-of-mandolinist-extraordinaire-avi-avital/) - Israeli-born mandolinist AVI AVITAL is blurring the classical-folk lines anew with BETWEEN WORLDS, featuring the work of 'classical composers inspired by folk music.'
- [That’s Not Theory, Pal, That’s Life!](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/20/thats-not-theory-pal-thats-life/) - ANDY STATMAN is back with another winner in SUPERSTRING THEORY, another scintillating exercise in multicultural musical explorations with guestS TIM O'BRIEN and MICHAEL CLEVELAND in tow.
- [ Death by Black Hole in a Small Galaxy?](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/20/death-by-black-hole-in-a-small-galaxy/) - A bright, long duration flare may be the first recorded event of a black hole destroying a star in a dwarf galaxy. Two independent studies indicate 'death by a black hole.' NASA.gov. reports.
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks — January 2014](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/20/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-14/) - Catching up with some key new releases from late 2013 by TWINKIE CLARK, THE BROOKLYN ALL STARS, THE TEMPLE OF DELIVERANCE WOMEN'S CHOIR and others.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks — May 2014](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/05/08/bob-marovichs-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 highway, spreading the old time religion that is the bread and butter of gospel quartets. Their 2011 album, Just
- [A 2nd Chance for Orphaned Pets](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/19/a-2nd-chance-for-orphaned-pets/) - Pets orphaned by their deceased or ill owners are an at-risk group. AMY SHEVER, founder of 2nd CHANCE 4 PETS, is about making sure these animals don't wind up discarded in shelters.
- [The Kid (1921)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/19/the-kid-1921/) - Marking the 125th anniversary of CHARLIE CHAPLIN's birth, Deep Roots Theater presents his 1921 masterpiece, THE KID, starring Chaplin as the Tramp and 7-year-old JACKIE COOGAN as the Child.
- [Charlie Chaplin on Filmmaking](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/19/charlie-chaplin-on-filmmaking/) - 'Simplicity of approach is always best': So says CHARLIE CHAPLIN in an excerpt from his autobiography in which he offers his thoughts on the art of filmmaking
- [Frédéric Chopin: ‘Sublimity Through Sweet Sounds’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/19/frederic-chopin-sublimity-through-sweet-sounds/) - From his turn-of-the-20th-century travels, ELBERT HUBBARD chronicles a visit to the home of composer Frédéric Chopin and uncovers a link to American novelist STEPHEN CRANE.
- [Of the Video Event of the Year](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/18/of-the-video-event-of-the-year/) - The Video Event of 2013: VistaEntertainment-Time Life's CHINA BEACH: THE COMPLETE SERIES and THE DEAN MARTIN CELEBRITY ROASTS: COMPLETE DVD COLLECTION
- [The Ellingtonian ‘Nutcracker’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/16/the-ellingtonian-nutcracker/) - An appreciation of THE NUTCRACKER SUITE as DUKE ELLINGTON & BILLY STRAYHORN reimagined it in 1960 and of a new take by THE HARMONIA ENSEMBLE conducted by STEVEN RICHMOND.
- [All in All, A Most Wonderful Time](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/13/all-in-all-a-most-wonderful-time/) - A tasty selection of tracks from three of ANDY WILLIAMS's eight Yuletide albums, including several superb tracks with arranger-conductor-producer ROBERT MERSEY.
- [December 1968: The King Reclaims His Throne](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/11/december-1968-the-king-reclaims-his-throne/) - Forty-five years ago this month, in a blazing return to relevancy, ELVIS appeared on NBC-TV as the sole star of what became known as his comeback special. See it all here.
- [In Which He Keeps Christmas Well](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/09/in-which-he-keeps-christmas-well/) - The old curmudgeon, you ask? No, NICK LOWE is now the old sentimentalist, complete with his own Christmas album, QUALITY STREET. Be ye not dismayed: it's unlike other Yule fare.
- [Essential Sondheim](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/09/essential-sondheim/) - STEPHEN SONDHEIM's life and music, inextricably linked, are explored in captivating fashion in the new HBO documentary, SIX BY SONDHEIM, airing through December. Review herein.
- [Christmas Beyond the Blue](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/07/christmas-beyond-the-blue/) - BLUES, BLUES CHRISTMAS VOLUME 3 leads this revised and updated review of four essential blues Christmas albums, including last year's DEATH MIGHT BE YOUR SANTA CLAUS
- [EPs of the Year 2013](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/02/18/eps-year-2013/) - Our first-ever citations of the Best EPs we received in 2013--an Elite Four, you might say.
- [BEYOND TOMORROW (1940)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/06/beyond-tomorrow-1940/) - In DEEP ROOTS THEATER: a charming holiday movie, BEYOND TOMORROW. Three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to earth as ghosts to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together. Plus: Popeye.
- [The Mythic Weight Of Phil Spector's Christmas Gift: A Semicentennial Reflection](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/11/29/the-mythic-weight-of-phil-spectors-christmas-gift-a-semicentennial-reflection/) - November 22, 1963, was a horrible day for the nation, and for PHIL SPECTOR, a personal disaster as well, as his ambitious Christmas album arrived and was promptly forgotten. A semicentennial look back ensues.
- [At the Intersection of Abbey Road and Tin Pan Alley (Field Notes From a Music Biz Life, Part 3)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/09/15/intersection-abbey-road-tin-pan-alley-field-notes-music-biz-life-part-3/) - In Part 3 of his autobiography,, MICHAEL SIGMAN recalls how his father Carl's song 'Ebb Tide,' which was the #1 hit in America in 1953, brought father and son closer when the RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS recorded it in 1965.
- [John Bradshaw Knows What Makes Our Cats Tick (And Purr, For That Matter)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/11/27/john-bradshaw-knows-what-makes-our-cats-tick-and-purr-for-that-matter/) - What makes cats tick? International cat expert and best selling author JOHN BRADSHAW offers his theories in this new book, CAT SENSE, and talks felines with our DUNCAN STRAUSS.
- [The Game of Love](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/11/26/the-game-of-love/) - BEFORE THE WORLD WAS MADE Brennen Leigh & Noel McKay B&N In a world festering with male-female duos, Austin’s Brennen Leigh & Noel McKay have some clear advantages over the competition. For starters, their dress is a bit retro (on the cover, a clean-cut Mad Men look for him; Jazz Age for her) but at
- [An Impromptu Requiem for a Slain President](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/11/22/an-impromptu-requiem-for-a-slain-president/) - Upon hearing the news from Dallas on November 22, 1963, the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ERICH LEINSDORF, offered an impromptu requiem for a slain President.
- [The Power of a Song](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/11/13/the-power-of-a-song/) - GHANDI's inspiring Salt March of 1930 provides the inspiration for a powerful new album by CHANDRIKA KRISHNAMURTHY TANDON, who reimagines the 241-mile trek, which led to India's independence, for a new generation. Interview and review follow.
- [ Union Avenue Communiqué ](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/11/13/union-avenue-communique/) - THE HOWLIN' BROTHERS went to Memphis's legendary SUN STUDIOS and cut an impressive six-song EP as a stopgap between their acclaimed debut album, released earlier this year, and their new CD, due in Feb. 2014.
- [Claire in Autumn](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/11/13/claire-in-autumn/) - Although Claire Lynch’s exceptional Compass label debut, Dear Sister, was released at the end of May, at the height of Spring, it has the reflective, contemplative feel of an autumnal missive.
- [Cowboys, Blues and Cowboy Blues](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/11/13/cowboys-blues-and-cowboy-blues/) - GARY ALLEGRETTO and IAN ESPINOZA have teamed up on a debut CD of cowboy love songs, cowboy blues, tall tales of legendary characters, love ballads and even Delta blues-style originals.
- [Samantha Fish, In Progress](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/11/13/samantha-fish-in-progress/) - SAMANTHA FISH has sidestepped the sophomore jinx on her outstanding MIKE ZITO-produced second album, BLACK WIND HOWLIN'. Still a work in progress, she's showing admirable growth both vocally and instrumentally, and is becoming quite the writer as well.
- [A Fresh Take on Fibich](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/11/13/a-fresh-take-on-fibich/) - Among Czech nationalistic composers, Zdenek Fibich's work has been woefully overlooked. The Czech National Symphony offers a partial corrective on its new CD.
- [Sweet November (1968)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/11/13/sweet-november-1968/) - In DEEP ROOTS THEATER, ANTHONY NEWLEY and SANDY DENNIS star in one of 1968's great date movies, SWEET NOVEMBER, a bonafide multi-hanky romance with a tragic underpinning and a challenge to conventional notions of relationships. Plus: the first episode of the Jackson 5ive cartoon show.
- [He Wrote ‘Two Steps from the Blues’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/28/he-wrote-two-steps-from-the-blues/) - TEXAS JOHNNY BROWN, who died in Houston on July 1, will always be remembered for writing Bobby Blue Bland's classic "Two Steps from the Blues." But there was more...
- [ Best In Show: Fred Willard In Anything, Including Animal Welfare ](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/28/best-in-show-fred-willard-in-anything-including-animal-welfare/) - 'I've always loved animals,' FRED WILLARD tells DUNCAN STRUASS in the new installment of TALKING ANIMALS. Among other topics, he discusses his involvement in Actors and Others for Animals.
- [They Only Come Out at Night](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/28/they-only-come-out-at-night/) - NOCTAMBULE (MARLA FIBISH and BRUCE VICTOR) have fashioned a number of poems by ROBERT SERVICE and others into an intriguing journey through the wee small hours
- [Elbert Hubbard’s Mozart](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/28/elbert-hubbards-mozart/) - ELBERT HUBBARD--writer, publisher,artist and philosopher--was about as interesting a character as the famous people he wrote about. His 1901 prose portrait of MOZART is unlike any other account of the great composer's life and times.
- [‘It Is the Sho’ ‘Nuff Truth’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/28/it-is-the-sho-nuff-truth/) - JUDY CHEEKS, daughter of gospel giant REV. JULIUS CHEEKS of the Sensational Nightingales, has emigrated from the secular world to gospel with a powerful debut album. An exclusive interview follows.
- [First Creation: One Loss but Many Gains](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/28/first-creation-one-loss-but-many-gains/) - ONE LOSS, MANY GAINS: death claimed one of FIRST CREATION's key members earlier this year, but the group has been blessed in other ways.
- [Brian Martin & Worship 4 Life: One Love, One Cause](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/28/brian-martin-worship-4-life-one-love-one-cause/) - A new live album is stirring things up for native Trinidadian BRIAN MARTIN and his contemporary praise gospel ensemble: an interview
- [Prayer Garden of Memphis Expands Artist Roster](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/28/prayer-garden-of-memphis-expands-artist-roster/) - The Prayer Garden of Memphis is presenting A Day of Prayer, Praise and Healing Explosion on Saturday, November 9 with a star-studded gospel artist lineup on hand.
- [Rev. Charles Brown Goes Home](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/28/rev-charles-brown-goes-home/) - Remembering REV. CHARLES BROWN, who sang with the VIOLINAIRES, and before that was promising soul singer CHARLIE 'COAL BLACK' BROWN.
- [And A Proud Mama She Would Be](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/18/and-a-proud-mama-she-would-be/) - AUTUMN IN AUGUSTA, the blues-jazz-folk combo led by the wondrous LUCY SMITH, has a winner in SONGS MY MAMA WOULD LIKE. It's Ms. Smith's tribute to the music her mother loved. Mama, Ms. Smith writes, 'had awesome taste.' We agree.
- [Long Time Gone: Neptune’s ‘Lost’ Moon Is Found Again](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/16/long-time-gone-neptunes-lost-moon-is-found-again/) - Naiad, NEPTUNE's 'lost' moon has been spotted for the first time in more than 20 years. Also: the sounds of Neptune, where the wind blows at 700 MPH, as recorded by Voyager 1 before it left the solar system.
- [AJ Being AJ](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/11/aj-being-aj/) - For more than a decade ALAN JACKSON has been musing about making a bluegrass album. Well, he finally did it, and produced a certified AJ classic in THE BLUEGRASS ALBUM.
- [Pogues Reuniting for Philip Chevron’s Funeral](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/11/pogues-reuniting-for-philip-chevrons-funeral/) - From our Irish music editor, word that THE POGUES are reuniting for PHILIP CHEVRON's funeral tomorrow.
- [The Lost Gospel](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/16/the-lost-gospel/) - Describing themselves as 'battered veterans of punk-rock-art damage,' the trio known as THE BOOK OF AMY retreat to the early 20th Century Appalachian and Blue Ridge Mountain ranges.
- [Wounded Knee Update: Auction Set for Oct. 1](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/19/wounded-knee-update-auction-set-for-oct-1/) - An update on the fate of WOUNDED KNEE, plus an unforgettable letter to the editor in response to Jim Czywczysnki's attempt to sell the land. Also: the Yin and Yang of wind farms
- [A Few Answers About 'Answer Me'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/11/a-few-answers-about-answer-me/) - 'ANSWER ME, MY LOVE' is a classic pop song with a complicated history. CARL SIGMAN wrote the lyrics, and herein his son MICHAEL SIGMAN relates the tune's fascinating backstory.
- [The Kiowas' Sacred Longhorn Mountain Under Siege in Oklahoma](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/11/the-kiowas-sacred-longhorn-mountain-under-siege-in-oklahoma/) - In southwest Oklahoma the LONGHORN MOUNTAIN, sacred site to the Kiowa people, is in jeopardy of being turned to rubble by a gravel mining operation. Mining has stalled but the threat remains.
- [Her Songs, Her Voice, Her Guitar…Her Life](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/09/her-songs-her-voice-her-guitarher-life/) - On Stage: MARY GAUTHIER came solo acoustic to Hill Country in New York City and mesmerized a near-sellout audience.
- [Special Delivery](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/09/special-delivery/) - The U.S. Postal Service has honored RAY CHARLES with a Forever stamp, and Concord has marked the occasion with an interesting anthology, FOREVER.
- [Sail On, Friend, Sail On](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/09/sail-on-friend-sail-on/) - PHILIP CHEVRON, guitarist-songwriter for THE POGUES, lost his battle with cancer on Oct. 8. Herewith a friend reflects on the remarkable heart that made this Irish bard someone special indeed.
- [Video Moment for the Ages](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/02/video-moment-for-the-ages-2/) - Capitalizing on the global acclaim for tTHE COMEBACK ALBUM, ERIC BRACE and PETER COOPER have released 'The Greatest Music Video Ever Made.' Sez they.
- [Beethoven’s Day](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/01/beethovens-day/) - Composer RICHARD WAGNER was always quick to dash off polemics on various subjects. He first wrote about BEETHOVEN in 1840, and returned to interpret the master's C-Sharp Minor String Quartet in 1870 during the Beethoven Centenary.
- [The Most Dangerous Game (1932)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/01/the-most-dangerous-game-1932/) - Remade and reimagined (even on a Gilligan's Island episode) many times, Irving Pichel's 1932 classic original of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME uses KING KONG sets and its stars, FAY WRAY and ROBERT ARMSTRONG. Plus: Betty Boop's "Minnie the Moocher."
- [‘Perhaps the Richest Body of Stories by Any North American Writer of His Generation’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/01/perhaps-the-richest-body-of-stories-by-any-north-american-writer-of-his-generation/) - THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is publishing a two-volume set of John Updike's Collected Stories. CHRISTOPHER CARDUFF, the estate-appointed editor of Updike's posthumous publications, discusses the project.
- [‘I Will Imagine You Venus To Night’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/01/i-will-imagine-you-venus-to-night/) - To his beloved FANNY BRAWNE JOHN KEATS wrote some of the most torrid and revealing love letters in history, one of which, from 1819, we offer here. Also here: Keats's timeless poem, 'To Autumn.'
- [Exquisite](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/01/exquisite/) - Jazz pianist THOMAS SNOW goes Americana on his memorable new album, FRIENDS, and gets a major assist in his efforts from singer-songwriter JONATHAN EDWARDS and mandolin master JOE WALSH. This is one of 2013's major roots finds.
- [A Visit with Author/Illustrator Kristi Valiant](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/10/01/a-visit-with-authorillustrator-kristi-valiant/) - JULES chats with author/illustrator KRISTI VALIANT, whose new book PENGUIN CHA-CHA is picking up rave reviews everywhere.
- [It’s Alvis, Not Elvis](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/26/its-alvis-not-elvis/) - Remembering ALVIS WAYNE, a rockabilly pioneer that never got his just due but leaves behind some memorable music in the wake of his passing on July 31.
- [Into the Heaven-Sent Light](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/24/into-the-heaven-sent-light/) - Between grieving for her deceased son and celebrating the birth of a new daughter, REBECCA FRAZIER wrote a batch of meaningful songs and walked into the light with WHEN WE FALL.
- [You Got the Silver, Sandy](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/24/you-got-the-silver-sandy/) - BIG SANDY and HIS FLY-RITE BOYS are celebrating a silver anniversary this year with a new album of reworked gems from the band's 25-year recording history. It's really good stuff.
- [‘Her Death is Akin To a Library Burning Down’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/24/her-death-is-akin-to-a-library-burning-down/) - Remembering REGINA RESNIK, whose death on August 8 was, says FRED PLOTKIN, 'akin to a library burning to the ground.' A personal reminiscence of an amazing life ensues.
- [Steffani’s ‘Stabat Mater’: Sophistication, Beauty & Originality](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/24/steffanis-stabat-mater-sophistication-beauty-originality/) - A new recording of Steffai's STABAT MATER is a triumph not only for CECILIA BARTOLI and conductor DIEGO FASOLIS but for the entire surrounding cast of stellar vocalists
- [‘I Always Thought SeaWorld Was a Happy Place’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/24/i-always-thought-seaworld-was-a-happy-place/) - An interview with documentary filmmaker GABRIELA COWPERTHWAITE on her eye opening documentary BLACKFISH about the mistreatment of Orcas in captivity.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks — September 2013](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/24/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-12/) - Reviews of new gospel CDs by Judy Cheeks, Kay Morris, Vicky Yohe, Noe Feliz, Deitrick Haddon, C3 and Denita Gibbs.
- [‘Birmingham is not a dying city. It is dead.’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/15/birmingham-is-not-a-dying-city-it-is-dead/) - On Sept/ 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan set off a bomb at Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, killing four young girls. On Sept. 16, civil liberties lawyer CHUCK MORGAN spoke out.
- [The Music Industry, Such as It Is…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/13/the-music-industry-such-as-it-is/) - So this is what A&R has come to? Someone taking English lessons from Beyonce?
- [There Goes the Sun](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/13/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.
- [Love or Chicken, It’s Tasty](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/09/11/love-or-chicken-its-tasty/) - You might say stellar guitarist-singer-songwriter BILL KIRCHEN lights it up on his new album, Seeds and Steams. Or you might also say SEEDS AND STEMS Bill Kirchen Proper Records “Get outta my way you small town clowns/this country boy, he’s come to town” So begins stellar guitarist-singer-songwriter Bill Kirchen’s fine new album, Seeds and Stems, a collection of revisited Kirchen classics and new originals. In fact, the above lyric comes from “Too Much Fun,” one of the aforementioned classics dating back to the artist’s fruitful tenure as a founding member of trailblazing country-rockers Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. Here, backed by his own formidable Too Much Fun band (bassist Maurice Cridlin and drummer/percussionist Jack O’Dell, with a handful of additional musicians sitting in here and there), Kirchen, in full Tele splendor, adds a little extra je ne sais quoi to give the familiar favorites fresh bite, drive and soul and thereby make them new again. “Too Much Fun” sounds even rowdier in its 2013 incarnation as the band romps through its tale of a free spirit who meets all sorts of resistance to his antics--especially when driving a stolen car--and winds up behind bars “for having too much fun.” Seeds and Stems being something of a career overview, its eclectic repertoire is hardly surprising. “Too Much Fun” may kick off the festivities with a heated rockabilly flair, but the second cut, “Tell Me the Reason,” is a note-perfect honky-tonk tearjerker lamenting the demise of a seemingly perfect couple’s romance, with Kirchen’s twangy, tear-stained guitar fills supporting his plaintive, heartbroken vocal. Thus is the stage set for “Down to Seeds and Stems Again,” one of Commander Cody’s signature songs (co-written by the Commander and Airman Billy C. Farlow--the latter being Kirchen’s collaborator on “Too Much Fun” as well) here rendered in the muted colors of a sad country ballad and enhanced by Kirchen’s weeping guitar solo, a lonely piano flourish courtesy Austin de Leone, and a desolate, dry Kirchen vocal (along with his heart tugging recitation informing us that in addition to losing his gal his dog has died and his house is being repossessed--folks, this is sad multiplied to the nth factor). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghz9rCOVHUc Bill Kirchen, ‘Hot Rod Lincoln,’ the extended live version, in Madrid, October 18, 2012 On the trucking front Kirchen offers another early Cody song in the twang-drenched “Semi-Truck” (the full title indicates its homage to the time-honored trucking song tradition, to wit: “Here I Sit, All Alone With a Broken Heart, I Took Three Bennies and My Semi-Truck Won’t Start), which in a humorous vein is the dark side of Dave Dudley’s “Six Days On the Road.” The backdrop for the rousing “Truck Stop at the End of the World” is the start of WWIII, an all-out nuclear holocaust that Kirchen informs us cannot stay a trucker from his appointed rounds; in the spirit of Steve Goodman’s “You Never Even Call My Name,” Kirchen’s “Mama Hated Diesels” (“I guess it had something to do with dad,” he tells us) proves you can’t go wrong writing songs about trucks and mamas, especially if the song has both in it along with yet another timeless element--a cemetery scene set at mama’s grave, leading to a poignant ending that leaves you wondering whether you should laugh or cry, which rather indicates the subtlety of Kirchen’s humor. Raw and wrenching, transformed from its original red-hot incarnation, “Womb to the Tomb” is nothing less than a long-haul driver’s chronicle of his encounter with a phantom trucker whose mission is to help fellow big-riggers escape tight spots on the road--a good Samaritan on the order of Red Sovine’s “Phantom 309.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj11j0AbV5g Bill Kirchen, ‘Down to Seeds and Stems Again,’ live at the Turning Point, Piermont, NY, August 9, 2009 Dylanologists will want to take note of Kirchen’s superb cover of Bob’s “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry,” a real beauty of bluesy, laid-back balladeering keyed by Kirchen’s restrained vocal over an evocative arrangement led by his spare, probing guitar which in turn is supported by O’Dell’s delicate brush drums and de Lone’s ghostly piano. And given how on many of the uptempo tunes (let us not fail to mention the kick-ass workout titled “Rockabilly Funeral”) Kirchen teases us with intimations of his spitfire, legendary solo on the Commander’s chart busting 1972 cover of “Hot Rod Lincoln”, you expect you’ll hear it in full flower when he rolls out his version as the penultimate song here--but wait. This isn’t the “Hot Rod Lincoln” of yore; instead, it’s only part of the “Hot Rod Lincoln” of yore. This one’s a near-eight-minute track, and yes, the first 2:10 is “Hot Rod Lincoln” complete with Kirchen’s amazing soloing, but then it takes what you might call a hard left, as it does in Kirchen’s concerts, when he begins name checking in words and music a whole host of marquee names (most of them musicians with distinctive sound signatures) whose cars pull over when the Hot Rod Lincoln comes barreling down the road. For instance, when Duane Eddy lets him by, Kirchenthen pays homage with a twangy taste of “Rebel Rouser”; Roy Orbison, “he let me by,” and is saluted with the opening bars of “Pretty Woman”; The Ventures, a smidgen of “Walk Don’t Run”; Count Basie pulls over and Austin de Lone nods with his 88s; The Beatles, The Monkees, Stevie Ray Vaughan and on it goes, reaching a high point of sorts with “the Kings,” namely Freddie, B.B., Ben E., Carole, Billie Jean (to the sound of a tennis ball being volleyed--actually it sounds like a “Pong” game), flamboyant boxing promoter Don King (no sound--Bill, as we have noted, has a well-honed sense of humor) and The King (Elvis, by way of a replication of Scotty Moore’s opening lick on “Heartbreak Hotel). This “Hot Rod Lincoln” is a real show stopper of a penultimate tune, not easy to follow, unless you can pull “Talkin’ About Chicken” out of your trick bag and please the crowd with its laid-back, lusty humor. Special guest picker Jorma Kaukonen adds a little spice to a broth comprised mainly of a series of favors one partner asks of the other, each of which begs the question, “Are you talkin’ about love or are you talkin’ about chicken?” Don’t know about that, but we are most certainly talking about a lot of exemplary picking and singing on Seeds and Stems. A good time is promised to all who enter. these revisited Kirchen classics and new songs is hot as a Hot Rod Lincoln.
- [Down and Dirty Strings](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/28/down-and-dirty-strings/) - On his Stringtet's new album, In the Gallery, composer/guitarist JASON SEED, unites classical players, jazz freedom and imaginary folk music. Jason explains it all in our interview.
- [Caruso on The Art of Singing](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/28/caruso-on-the-art-of-singing/) - ENRICO CARUSO holds forth on the ART OF SINGING in an excerpt from a 1909 collection of h is public utterances on his art. The wealth of embedded videos include the 1918 silent film MY COUSIN, featuring the great singer in a dual role.
- [ Kansas Pacific (1953) ](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/28/kansas-pacific-1953/) - STERLING HAYDEN and EVE MILLER star in KANSAS PACIFIC, a fictionalized account of the struggle to build the Kansas Pacific Railway in the 1860s. Short subject: Little Lulu, 'Bargain Counter Attack.'
- [Artist of the Violin: Chatting Up Brooke Alford](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/28/artist-of-the-violin-chatting-up-brooke-alford/) - It's not a full-blown trend yet, but the violin is becoming more prevalent in gospel music. One of the leading practitioners of gospel violin, BROOKE ALFORD, has a new album, VIOSOCALIST, that also spotlights her affecting singing. BOB MAROVICH chats her up.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks — August 2013](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/28/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-11/) - Gospel CD reviews: ROBERT RANDOLPH AND THE FAMILY BAND, LISA PAGE BROOKS, WIN THOMPKINS & THE STOMPERS, SERVANTS OF PRAISE, TY TIBBETT, THE WARDLAW BROTHERS and KERSTEN STEVENS
- [Equal Opportunity Vibe](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/28/equal-opportunity-vibe/) - Vintage Calypso is alive and well...in Berlin, where LORD MOUSE AND THE KALYPSO KATZ are packing 'em in with their swaying beats, hot horns and bold lyrics. Go Calypso is the group's new album, explained herein by Lord Mouse himself.
- [Natural Comfort](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/28/natural-comfort/) - When she got lost in ALLEGANY STATE PARK as a child, KIMBERLY DANIELS found unexpected comfort in the natural world.
- [ NASA's Chandra Sees Eclipsing Planet in X-rays for First Time ](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/28/nasas-chandra-sees-eclipsing-planet-in-x-rays-for-first-time/) - For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star.
- [Synesius of Cyrene to Hypatia](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/28/synesius-of-cyrene-to-hypatia/) - What little we know about HYPATIA, of ancient Alexandria we know from the letters of her devoted student, SYNESIUS. Also: Hypatia on the moon.
- [Godfather II, Eric Brace & Peter Cooper & Me](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/11/godfather-ii-eric-brace-peter-cooper-me/) - ERIC BRACE & PETER COOPER have come up with a rootsy gem on their third duo effort, THE COMEBACK ALBUM. Stellar in all respects, it's one of 2013's finest long players.
- [‘There’s something going on in civilization which is coming at us with great vehemence’  ](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/12/theres-something-going-on-in-civilization-which-is-coming-at-us-with-great-vehemence/) - AT&T asked one of the great filmmakers of our time, WERNER HERZOG, to film a PSA on the dangers of texting while driving for its 'It Can Wait' campaign. Watch it here, and take heed.
- ['Old'](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/old/) - From her 100 videos in 100 days project, Christine Santelli performs ‘Old’. Ms. Santelli’s 2012 album, Dragonfly, was a Deep Roots Album of the Year honoree.
- [‘Dragonfly’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/08/11/my-town/) - From her 100 Videos in 100 Days project, Christine Santelli performs the title track from her latest album, Dragonfly, a Deep Roots Album of the Year in 2012. For those in or visiting New York City, the PATH Café at 131 Christopher Street features Ms. Santelli hosting and performing an opening set at its Singer-Songwriter night every
- [My Summer Romance: Laughter, Tears & Tenderness](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/my-summer-romance-laughter-tears-tenderness/) - MY SUMMER ROMANCE: LAUGHTER, TEARS & TENDERNESS in three stories and a poem about summer loves. Music by MEL CARTER, SPANKY & OUR GANG, et al.
- [American Graffiti @ 40: ‘…a final farewell to childhood dreams before reality steps in’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/american-graffiti-40-a-final-farewell-to-childhood-dreams-before-reality-steps-in/) - Saluting AMERICAN GRAFFITI on its 40th anniversary, we offer a view from the younger generation in the form of Australian THOMAS CALDWELL's smart take on the 1973 classic coming of age story.
- [The Poetry, and The Poet, Within](https://deeprootsmag.org/2014/01/19/the-poetry-and-the-poet-within/) - One of the finest bluegrass singer-songwriters extant, DONNA ULISSE pays homage to the artists that inspired her on SHOWIN' MY ROOTS.
- [‘It Must Have Been the Mistletoe’: Mandrell Knew It Was Cool Before It Was Cool](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/22/it-must-have-been-the-mistletoe-the-seasonal-standard-no-one-wanted/) - "It Must Have Been the Mistletoe,' written by JUSTIN WILDE and DOUG KONECKY, has become a contemporary seasonal standard, but it wasn't an easy sell. The story behind the song follows.
- [Gospel News & Notes: Kickstarter Campaign Launched to Fund Jubilee Showcase Documentary ](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/gospel-news-notes-kickstarter-campaign-launched-to-fund-jubilee-showcase-documentary/) - A Kickstarter campaign is underway to raise funds for a most worthy project: a documentary about the vital Chicago-based gospel music television show Jubilee Showcase, where anyone who was anyone in gospel made an appearance.
- [Where the Gremmies and the Ho-Dads Never Go](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/where-the-gremmies-and-the-ho-dads-never-go/) - WHERE THE GREMMIES AND THE HO-DADS NEVER GO: Riding a wave of surf music obscurities by THE PHAROS, THE DAKOTAS, THE SURF LORDS, THE FATHOMS, HAWAII SAMURAI and more.
- [‘Dad, I Think We Got One’ : Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart Craft A Seasonal Classic](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/dad-i-think-we-got-one-eddie-cochran-and-jerry-capehart-craft-a-seasonal-classic/) - EDDIE COCHRAN's manager and co-writer JERRY CAPEHART remembers the day he and Eddie, in search of a hit, wrote a certified seasonal classic, 'Summertime Blues'
- [When Jack London Rekindled Surfing in Hawaii](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/when-jack-london-rekindled-surfing-in-hawaii/) - JACK LONDON REKINDLES SURFING IN HAWAII: A brief history of surfing in Hawaii from Captain Cook to Duke Kahanmoku, and how author JACK LONDON ignited the modern surfing era in the islands.
- [The Paw Project Scratches Out Ways To Educate About Declawing—And To Halt It ](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/the-paw-project-scratches-out-ways-to-educate-about-declawing-and-to-halt-it/) - DR. JENNIFER CONRAD, a veterinarian, has founded THE PAW PROJECT to educate the public about the dangers of declawing cats, and then to halt the odious practice in its tracks. An exclusive interview by DUNCAN STRAUSS.
- [A Royal Sport](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/a-royal-sport/) - In 1907 JACK LONDON sailed to Hawaii in his ketch The Snark. His enthusiastic report on surfing, 'A ROYAL SPORT, rekindled interest in riding the waves in surfing's birthplace and launchied its modern era. Read it here.
- [The Women Composers](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/the-women-composers/) - In 'The Women Composers,' from his book Contemporary American Composers, published in 1900, RUPERT HUGHES, M.A. makes the case for women composers being the equal of male composers as the 20th century dawned. Featuring AMY BEACH and MARGARET RUTHVEN LANG.
- [Voicemail Transcriber Gives New Meaning to Pop Lyrics](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/voicemail-transcriber-gives-new-meaning-to-pop-lyrics/) - As currently constituted, voicemail transcription, a promising but troubled technology, is giving new meaning to pop lyrics. Contributing editor MICHAEL SIGMAN files a first-person report on same.
- [Hope, Redemption and a Sky Big as God](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/hope-redemption-and-a-sky-big-as-god/) - Having conquered his demons, MIKE ZITO explains how it all happened and what brought him back from the abyss on his powerful new album, GONE TO TEXAS
- [Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks — July 2013](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-10/) - Reviews of new gospel CDs by: LISA MONICA STEVENSON, J PROPHET, SHEKINAH GLORY MINISTRY, HEZEKIAH WALKER, DESMOND PRINGLE.
- [Blues As Biography](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/blues-as-biography/) - It's blues as biography on the JAMES MONTGOMERY BAND's new album, FROM DETROIT...TO THE DELTA, with guests JAMES COTTON, JOHNNY WINTER and others.
- [ Really? ‘The Letter’?](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/really-the-letter/) - FRANK SOLIVAN & DIRTY KITCHEN reassert themselves as one of bluegrass's finest young bands with their new Compass album, ON THE EDGE
- [A Walk Along Iceland’s Volcanic Rift](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/a-walk-along-icelands-volcanic-rift/) - WALKING THE VOLCANIC RIFT: Iceland is literally tearing apart at a rate of one inch per year, separating the North American tectonic plate from the European plate and creating unparalleled landscapes.
- [Free and Easy (1967) ](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/free-easy-1967/) - DEEP ROOTS THEATER features a surf movie gem, FREE AND EASY, along with a BEATLES surfing cartoon; JOSEPH AHLMAN's 'Oceantics'; and GOOFY surfing in 'Hawaiian Holiday'
- [Old-Time Good-Timey, with Hints of Grandeur](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/old-time-good-timey-with-hints-of-grandeur/) - Nashville's THE HOWLIN BROTHERS are poised for greater things, if the trio's new Brendan Benson-produced album, HOWL, is any indication. John Hartford, for one, is smiling.
- [Sustainable Agriculture News](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/sustainable-agriculture-news-2/) - Sustainable Agriculture newswire: 'Ag of the Middle' is polarizing production; on the edge of Phoenix, a small-scale farmer, MAYA DAILEY, is spurring a local food movement; in Minnesota, an expanding program is providing childcare centers with locally grown foods.
- [A Search for Unity Within the Miraculous](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/a-search-for-unity-within-the-miraculous/) - Ireland's LOUTH CONTEMPORARY MUSIC SOCIETY has one of the year's most intriguing new releases in IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS, which mirrors George Gurdjieff's populist, pan-global approach to spiritual teaching.
- [Curiosity Rover Delivers Billion-Pixel View of Mars](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/curiosity-rover-delivers-billion-pixel-view-of-mars/) - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover delivers the first gigapixel image from the Red Planet's surface in a panoramic view that captures actual Mars lighting conditions.
- [‘Welcome Has No Boundaries’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/welcome-has-no-boundaries/) - Zimbabwe's beloved OLIVER 'TUKU' MTUKUDZI has released his 61st album, SARAWOGA, of songs of hope and respect. 'There's always something to talk about,' he tells us, and then proves it.
- [Of Secret Smiles and Unfinished Symphonies](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/28/of-secret-smiles-and-unfinished-symphonies/) - RED RIVER DRIFTER may be MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY'S best yet. He's singing love songs again, but love songs of a different stripe, examining the emotion in all its complexity.
- [‘He Accomplished Everything He Ever Wanted’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/20/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!"
- [Video Moment of the Week](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/28/video-moment-of-the-week/) - TRAVIS TRITT and his impressive 15-year-old daughter TYLER REESE are terrific on a remake of the 1992 rock smash 'Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough'
- [Surf in Verse](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/surf-in-verse/) - SURF IN VERSE: Our annual feature marking summer's arrival. This month we spotlight, exclusively, the poetry of BRYAN KNOWLES, who has posted a wealth of his original poetry at the website Surf Poetry.com. Also: some choice SURF MUSIC videos.
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks - May 2013](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/05/14/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-8/) - Gospel Picks include new CDs by MARICA CHISOLM, SHERREE BROWN, THE CATHEDRAL OF PRAISE CHOIR, ALEXIS SPIGHT, CARL LAVON, MUYIWA & RIVERSONGZ, DANIELLE KELLEY
- [What If?](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/what-if/) - Remembering STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN and Canned Heat's ALAN WILSON, on the 30th anniversary of SRV's debut, TEXAS FLOOD, and the release of a long-awaited Wilson retrospective.
- [The Romantic](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/05/02/the-romantic/) - WILLIE NELSON returns at his best on LET'S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE, a torch album chronicling a bruised but not broken romantic's tumultuous journey of the heart.
- [Chopin a National Poet](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/05/14/chopin-a-national-poet/) - FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN a National Poet? FRANZ LISZT thought so, and explained why in an 1852 essay that begat a biography of the great Romantic composer.
- [Gospel News & Notes - May 2013](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/05/14/gospel-news-notes-4/) - A star-studded lineup led by SMOKEY NORFUL and VICKIE WINANS heads the 28th Chicago Gospel Music Festival on June 20-23. This year's theme: 'The Year of the Choir.'
- [The Songs Linger On…](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/04/25/the-songs-linger-on/) - Multiple JUNO award winner OLD MAN LUEDECKE has one of the sleeper albums of 2013 in TENDER IS THE NIGHT. Produced by TIM O'BRIEN, its songs linger in memory and beg repeat listens.
- [Johnny Cash to Carl Perkins](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/johnny-cash-to-carl-perkins/) - WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVE: In a previously unpublished letter written in April 1981, JOHNNY CASH apprises CARL PERKINS of his plans for the two of them plus their Sun llabelmate JERRY LEE LEWIS, to appear in concert together in Germany. Of course, there's much more to it.
- [Musical Echoes of Days Long Past](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/08/musical-echoes-of-days-long-past/) - Musical echoes of days long past abound in THE BEAUTIFUL OLD and MIKE SCOTT & FRIENDS' HOME SWEET HOME: CIVIL WAR ERA SONGS. Plus: a James Cagney VIDEO MOMENT OF THE WEEK.
- [In the Mist of a Memory](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/04/18/in-the-mist-of-a-memory/) - 86-year-old BOYD LEE DUNLOP survives a near-fatal heart attack to triumph on his second album, THE LAKE REFLECTIONS, a collection of solo piano improvisations.
- [The Wait is Over for Alvin Darling](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/07/23/the-wait-is-over-for-alvin-darling/) - Stellar and Dove Award nominee ALVIN DARLING showcases the singer-songwriter's Pentecostal church roots and years spent on the gospel highway as a quartet singer. In our interview, he discusses his new album, WAITING RIGHT HERE.
- [You Live On, Chet](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/20/you-live-on-chet/) - Legendary music journalist/editor and country music authority CHET FLIPPO passed away on Wednesday in Nashville. David McGee offers a personal tribute.
- [ The Paris of Berlioz and Liszt](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/the-paris-of-berlioz-and-liszt/) - Writing in 1837, acclaimed German poet HEINRICH HEINE filed a report on 'the two most remarkable phenomena in the contemporary musical world,' i.e., BERLIOZ and LISZT.
- [Chaotic, Angelic & Many Other Fine Things](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/chaotic-angelic-many-other-fine-things/) - A review of Sarah Alden's debut album, FISTS OF VIOLETS.
- [National Park Service Adopts New Healthy Food Standards; Online Organic Grocer Expands to Nine States](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/national-park-service-adopts-new-healthy-food-standards-online-organic-grocer-expands-to-nine-states/) - The NATIONAL PARK SERVICE issues new guidelines for \National Parks to offer visitors healthier, and local, choices in food; online grocer Door to Door Organics expands to nine states.
- [Climate Conditions Determine Amazon Fire Risk--The Threat of ‘Understory’ Fires](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/climate-conditions-determine-amazon-fire-risk-the-threat-of-understory-fires/) - 'Understory' fires are destroying more of the Amazon rainforest than is being lost through deforestation, NASA scientists have determined.
- ['Battle Bunny': A Visit with Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett and Matthew Myers](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/battle-bunny-a-visit-with-jon-scieszka-mac-barnett-and-matthew-myers/) - JULES queries the creative team behind the new children's book, BATTLE BUNNY. An interview with JON SCIESZKA, MATT BARNETT and MATTHEW MYERS.
- [From Senegal to Many Ports of Call](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/from-senegal-to-many-ports-of-call/) - Senegalese singer-songwriter-guitarist NURU KANE has released his most ambitious work yet, EXILE, described by our reviewer as 'an eclectic, franco-african-diasporic fusion album.."
- [Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks — June 2013](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/bob-marovichs-gospel-picks-9/) - BOB MAROVICH'S GOSPEL PICKS include THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE CHOIR, APOSTLE NORBERT SIMMONS & THE GOSPELAIRES, ALVIN DARLING, EARL BYNUM and THE FLINT CAVALIERS. Plus a DVD, SPARE THE ROD, SPOIL THE CHILD.
- [The Masters Weigh In](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/the-masters-weigh-in/) - Bluegrass masters DOYLE LAWSON (& Quicksilver) and PETER ROWAN pick it clean, pick it true and demonstrate why the traditional never goes out of style.
- [Zoobiquity: Connecting Health In Animals And Humans ](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/zoobiquity-connecting-health-in-animals-and-humans/) - If you think animals and humans don't have the same problems, think again. BARBARA NATTERSON-HOROWITZ and KATHRYN BOWERS, co-authors of the best selling ZOOBIQUITY: THE ASTONISHING CONNECTION BETWEEN HUMAN AND ANIMAL HEALTH, disabuse TALKING ANIMALS host DUNCAN STRAUSS of any such notion.
- [MY DEAR SECRETARY (1949)](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/my-dear-secretary-1949/) - MY DEAR SECRETARY (1949) stars KIRK DOUGLAS in his first romantic comedy role and features delightful co-starring turns by LARAINE DAY and KEENAN WYNN. Short subjects: A selection of BEATLES cartoons.
- [‘It’s Like Someone’s Speaking Through Me’](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/its-like-someones-speaking-through-me/) - Jamaican singer-songwriter BRUSHY ONE-STRING (so named because he plays a one-string guitar) evokes the likes of Percy Sledge and Louis Armstrong on his first studio album, DESTINY. 'It's like someone's speaking through me,' he tells our reporter.
- [On Down the Line](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/on-down-the-line/) - After a year of personal misfortune, siblings ELAINE and LEE ROY, aka THE ROYS, have transformed their miseries into art on their new album, GYPSY RUNAWAY TRAIN, another stone-cold winner for the duo.
- [Heat Wave](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/heat-wave/) - Two outstanding HOT CLUBs--one of SAN FRANCISCO, the other of the mythical COWTOWN--occupy similar turf on their new albums, both being tributes to the gypsy jazz legacy of DJANGO REINHARDT and STEPHANE GRAPELLI.
- [Christopher O’Riley at the Top](https://deeprootsmag.org/2013/06/18/christopher-oriley-at-the-top/) - CHRISTOPHER O'RILEY, host of NPR's popular 'From the Top,' offers his own bold takes on Liszt on his acclaimed new solo piano album, O'RILEY'S LISZT.

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- [Maria Callas](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/maria-callas/)
- [Louis Engel](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/louis-engel/)
- [Janis Martin](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/janis-martin/)
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- [southern rock](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/southern-rock/)
- [Michael Bram](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/michael-bram/)
- [blues](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/blues/)
- [Dave Gross](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dave-gross/)
- [Chuck Yeager](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/chuck-yeager/)
- [The Right Stuff](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-right-stuff/)
- [Supersonic Flight](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/supersonic-flight/)
- [News & Notes](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/news-notes/)
- [VoteVets.org](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/votevets-org/)
- [John Fogerty](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/john-fogerty/)
- [David Maxwell](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/david-maxwell/)
- [blues piano](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/blues-piano/)
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- [traditional bluegrass](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/traditional-bluegrass/)
- [Ann Rabson](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ann-rabson/)
- [Bob Margolin](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/bob-margolin/)
- [Pinetop Perkins](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/pinetop-perkins/)
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- [Jenny Wren](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/jenny-wren/)
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- [Wren fashions](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/wren-fashions/)
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- [Our Mutual Friend](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/our-mutual-friend/)
- [Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope/)
- [blazars](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/blazars/)
- [Felix Baumgartner](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/felix-baumgartner/)
- [space pressure suits](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/space-pressure-suits/)
- [Dennis R. Jenkins](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dennis-r-jenkins/)
- [Dressing for Altitude](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dressing-for-altitude/)
- [Filastine](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/filastine/)
- [Grey Filastine](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/grey-filastine/)
- [Nova](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/nova/)
- [Colony Collapse](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/colony-collapse/)
- [Anthony Heilbut](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/anthony-heilbut/)
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- [Aretha Franklin](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/aretha-franklin/)
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- [Adrian Murray](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/adrian-murray/)
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- [Shanon Harris](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/shanon-harris/)
- [Felix Mendelssohn](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/felix-mendelssohn/)
- [Robert Schumann](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/robert-schumann/)
- [A Day with Mendelssohn](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/a-day-with-mendelssohn/)
- [Yellowstone](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/yellowstone/)
- [Christine Baleshta](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/christine-baleshta/)
- [James Betts](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/james-betts/)
- [The Weeping of the Hawk](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-weeping-of-the-hawk/)
- [The Edge of Winter](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-edge-of-winter/)
- [Druid Pack wolves](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/druid-pack-wolves/)
- [Alexandre Tharaud](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/alexandre-tharaud/)
- [Le Boeuf Sur le Toit](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/le-boeuf-sur-le-toit/)
- [Paris 1921](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/paris-1921/)
- [Matthew Cordell](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/matthew-cordell/)
- [hello! hello!](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/hello-hello/)
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- [Les Paul](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/les-paul/)
- [Billy Altman](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/billy-altman/)
- [Thank You Les](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/thank-you-les/)
- [Keith Richards](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/keith-richards/)
- [Somewhere Over the Rainbow](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/somewhere-over-the-rainbow/)
- [Blondie Chaplin](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/blondie-chaplin/)
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- [Ronnie King](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ronnie-king/)
- [Perfectly Legal: Songs of Sex](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/perfectly-legal-songs-of-sex/)
- [Love and Murder](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/love-and-murder/)
- [Paula Poundstone](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/paula-poundstone/)
- [Diner Came](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/diner-came/)
- [Cat Cam](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/cat-cam/)
- [Elliott Carter](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/elliott-carter/)
- [Flute C](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/flute-c/)
- [Flute Concerto](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/flute-concerto/)
- [Symphony of Three Orchestras](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/symphony-of-three-orchestras/)
- [String Quartet No. 2](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/string-quartet-no-2/)
- [Randolph Scott](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/randolph-scott/)
- [Henry Hathaway](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/henry-hathaway/)
- [Man of the Forest](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/man-of-the-forest/)
- [Verne Hillie](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/verne-hillie/)
- [Gus Visser and His Singing Duck](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/gus-visser-and-his-singing-duck/)
- [Case Studios](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/case-studios/)
- [Mormon Tabernacle Choir](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mormon-tabernacle-choir/)
- [Mary Chapin Carpenter](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mary-chapin-carpenter/)
- [George Winston](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/george-winston/)
- [Charlie Brown Thanksgiving](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/charlie-brown-thanksgiving/)
- [Celtic Women](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/celtic-women/)
- [Douglas Spotted Eagle](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/douglas-spotted-eagle/)
- [Larry Yazzie and the Native Pride Dancers](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/larry-yazzie-and-the-native-pride-dancers/)
- [Moses Asch](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/moses-asch/)
- [Folkways Recording](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/folkways-recording/)
- [Guy Logsdon](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/guy-logsdon/)
- [Cisco Houston](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/cisco-houston/)
- [Sustainable agriculture](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sustainable-agriculture/)
- [Brian Halweil](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/brian-halweil/)
- [Stacy Miller](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/stacy-miller/)
- [Scott Exo](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/scott-exo/)
- [Steve Warshawer](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/steve-warshawer/)
- [Video Of The Month](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/video-of-the-month/)
- [Ian Siegal & the Mississippi Mudbloods](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ian-siegal-the-mississippi-mudbloods/)
- [Cody Dickinson](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/cody-dickinson/)
- [Luther Dickinson](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/luther-dickinson/)
- [Garry Burnside](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/garry-burnside/)
- [Lightnin' Malcolm](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/lightnin-malcolm/)
- [Candy Store Kid](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/candy-store-kid/)
- [Foghorn Stringband](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/foghorn-stringband/)
- [Caleb Klauder](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/caleb-klauder/)
- [Sammy Lind](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sammy-lind/)
- [old-time stringband music](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/old-time-stringband-music/)
- [Carter Family](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/carter-family/)
- [Stanley Brothers](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/stanley-brothers/)
- [Lonnie Robertson](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/lonnie-robertson/)
- [Uncle Bob Walters](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/uncle-bob-walters/)
- [Darrell Scott](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/darrell-scott/)
- [Real Time](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/real-time/)
- [gospel](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/gospel/)
- [bluegrass Hank Williams](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/bluegrass-hank-williams/)
- [Gordon Lightfoot](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/gordon-lightfoot/)
- [Towns Van Zandt](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/towns-van-zandt/)
- [Native Americans](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/native-americans/)
- [Thanksgiving](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/thanksgiving/)
- [Wamsutta](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/wamsutta/)
- [Frank. B. James](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/frank-b-james/)
- [Massasoit](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/massasoit/)
- [Wampanoag Nation](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/wampanoag-nation/)
- [Metero Blades](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/metero-blades/)
- [Jacqueline Keeler](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/jacqueline-keeler/)
- [Savoring Thanksgiving](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/savoring-thanksgiving/)
- [Sacred Spirits](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sacred-spirits/)
- [Ancient Winds](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ancient-winds/)
- [Robert Mirabal](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/robert-mirabal/)
- [Native American liturgy](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/native-american-liturgy/)
- [Big Brother and the Holding Company](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/big-brother-and-the-holding-company/)
- [Janis Joplin](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/janis-joplin/)
- [Cleveland Duncan](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/cleveland-duncan/)
- [Earth Angel](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/earth-angel/)
- [The Penguins](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-penguins/)
- [Jesse Belvin](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/jesse-belvin/)
- [Frank Zappa](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/frank-zappa/)
- [St. Augustine](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/st-augustine/)
- [Florida](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/florida/)
- [Pedro Menendez de Aviles; Native Americans; first Thanksgiving](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/pedro-menendez-de-aviles-native-americans-first-thanksgiving/)
- [Paul Laurence Dunbar](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/paul-laurence-dunbar/)
- [Signs of the Times](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/signs-of-the-times/)
- [Library of America](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/library-of-america/)
- [William Dean Howells](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/william-dean-howells/)
- [Los Romeros](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/los-romeros/)
- [Pepe Romero](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/pepe-romero/)
- [Christmas with Los Romeros](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/christmas-with-los-romeros/)
- [Hurricane Sandy benefit](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/hurricane-sandy-benefit/)
- [Gina Sicilia and Dave Gross](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/gina-sicilia-and-dave-gross/)
- [Big Jim Sullivan](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/big-jim-sullivan/)
- [Casablanca](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/casablanca/)
- [Humphrey Bogart](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/humphrey-bogart/)
- [Michael Curtiz](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/michael-curtiz/)
- [Play It Again](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/play-it-again/)
- [Sam](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sam/)
- [Woody Allen](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/woody-allen/)
- [Ingrid Bergman](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ingrid-bergman/)
- [Maria Muldaur](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/maria-muldaur/)
- [Memphis Minnie](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/memphis-minnie/)
- [Bonnie Raitt](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/bonnie-raitt/)
- [Phoebe Snow](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/phoebe-snow/)
- [Koko Taylor](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/koko-taylor/)
- [Steve Freund](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/steve-freund/)
- [Del Rey](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/del-rey/)
- [Edie Adams Christmas](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/edie-adams-christmas/)
- [Ernie Kovacs](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ernie-kovacs/)
- [Josh Mills](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/josh-mills/)
- [Kumbaya](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/kumbaya/)
- [Barack Obama](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/barack-obama/)
- [Mitt Romney](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mitt-romney/)
- [Nick Lowe](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/nick-lowe/)
- [Joan Baez](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/joan-baez/)
- [The Seekers](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-seekers/)
- [Earl Speedo Carroll](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/earl-speedo-carroll/)
- [The Cadillacs](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-cadillacs/)
- [P.S. 87](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/p-s-87/)
- [Mickey Baker](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mickey-baker/)
- [Mickey & Sylvia](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mickey-sylvia/)
- [Love is Strange](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/love-is-strainge/)
- [Speedo](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/speedo/)
- [Gloria](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/gloria/)
- [Peter Rowan](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/peter-rowan/)
- [The Old School](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-old-school/)
- [Jay Ungar](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/jay-ungar/)
- [Molly Mason](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/molly-mason/)
- [A Fiddler's Holiday](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/a-fiddlers-holiday/)
- [Doc Watson](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/doc-watson/)
- [Ashokan Farewell](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ashokan-farewell/)
- [Darren Jay & The Delta Souls](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/darren-jay-the-delta-souls/)
- [Laura Cupit](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/laura-cupit/)
- [Willie Dixon](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/willie-dixon/)
- [Drink My Wine](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/drink-my-wine/)
- [Hereeford Cathedral Choir](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/hereeford-cathedral-choir/)
- [Christmas at Hereford](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/christmas-at-hereford/)
- [Dallas Wind Symphony](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dallas-wind-symphony/)
- [Horns for the Holidays](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/horns-for-the-holidays/)
- [Jerry Junkins](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/jerry-junkins/)
- [Christmas the Mountain Way](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/christmas-the-mountain-way/)
- [Steve Gulley](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/steve-gulley/)
- [Dale Ann Bradley](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dale-ann-bradley/)
- [Common Strings](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/common-strings/)
- [Audie Blaylock](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/audie-blaylock/)
- [Cumberland River](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/cumberland-river/)
- [Don Gulley](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/don-gulley/)
- [Debbie Gulley](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/debbie-gulley/)
- [Mike & Brenda Scott](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mike-brenda-scott/)
- [Brad Gulley](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/brad-gulley/)
- [Mike Scott](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mike-scott/)
- [Noe Gold](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/noe-gold/)
- [Yiddish Glossary for Goyim](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/yiddish-glossary-for-goyim/)
- [Prop 37](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/prop-37/)
- [Stacy Malkan](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/stacy-malkan/)
- [Mark Bittman](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mark-bittman/)
- [Daniel Hayden](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/daniel-hayden/)
- [David Zilberman](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/david-zilberman/)
- [The World According to Monsanto](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-world-according-to-monsanto/)
- [Marie-Monique Robin](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/marie-monique-robin/)
- [Household Words](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/household-words/)
- [Bleak House](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/bleak-house/)
- [What Christmas Is As We Grow Older](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/what-christmas-is-as-we-grow-older/)
- [Peter Ackroyd](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/peter-ackroyd/)
- [Agostino Steffani](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/agostino-steffani/)
- [Philippe Jaroussky](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/philippe-jaroussky/)
- [Alaska auroras](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/alaska-auroras/)
- [John Muir](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/john-muir/)
- [Clara Schumann](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/clara-schumann/)
- [May Byron](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/may-byron/)
- [Papillons](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/papillons/)
- [Carnaval](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/carnaval/)
- [Davidsbundlertanze](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/davidsbundlertanze/)
- [Fantasy in C Major](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/fantasy-in-c-major/)
- [The Two Grenadiers](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-two-grenadiers/)
- [In the Lovely Month of May](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/in-the-lovely-month-of-may/)
- [James Fortune & FIYA](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/james-fortune-fiya/)
- [Israel & New Breed](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/israel-new-breed/)
- [Israel T. Martin & God's Ultimate Praise](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/israel-t-martin-gods-ultimate-praise/)
- [James Hall & Worship & Praise](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/james-hall-worship-praise/)
- [Renee Spearman](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/renee-spearman/)
- [Modern Day David](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/modern-day-david/)
- [Bounce TV](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/bounce-tv/)
- [forever JONES](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/forever-jones/)
- [Tim Bowman Jr.](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/tim-bowman-jr/)
- [Roscoe Robinson](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/roscoe-robinson/)
- [Blind Boys of Birmingham](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/blind-boys-of-birmingham/)
- [Rhythm and Gospel Awards](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/rhythm-and-gospel-awards/)
- [Black Gospel Blog](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/black-gospel-blog/)
- [Dr. Penny Boston](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dr-penny-boston/)
- [Snowy River Cave](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/snowy-river-cave/)
- [Crystal Cave of Giants](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/crystal-cave-of-giants/)
- [snottites](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/snottites/)
- [Mars](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mars/)
- [Big Cat Rescue](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/big-cat-rescue/)
- [Carole Baskin](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/carole-baskin/)
- [Joe Schreibvogel](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/joe-schreibvogel/)
- [HR 4122](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/hr-4122/)
- [Donna Ulisse](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/donna-ulisse/)
- [Hey Rosetta](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/hey-rosetta/)
- [Edie Adams](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/edie-adams/)
- [Christmas in Deepest Blue Hues](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/christmas-in-deepest-blue-hues/)
- [the Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Family Band](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-jay-ungar-molly-mason-family-band/)
- [Hereford Cahtedral Choir](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/hereford-cahtedral-choir/)
- [Frank Sinatra](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/frank-sinatra/)
- [Alex Stordahl](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/alex-stordahl/)
- [Gordon Jenkins](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/gordon-jenkins/)
- [Nelson Riddle](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/nelson-riddle/)
- [Jimmy Webb](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/jimmy-webb/)
- [Don Costa](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/don-costa/)
- [Bing Crosby](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/bing-crosby/)
- [Frosty the Snowman](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/frosty-the-snowman/)
- [Hardrock](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/hardrock/)
- [Coco and Joe](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/coco-and-joe/)
- [Suzy Snowflake](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/suzy-snowflake/)
- [Peace on Earth](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/peace-on-earth/)
- [The Insects' Christmas](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-insects-christmas/)
- [Wah Ming Chang](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/wah-ming-chang/)
- [Stuart Hamblen](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/stuart-hamblen/)
- [Wladyslaw Starewicz](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/wladyslaw-starewicz/)
- [Ladislas](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ladislas/)
- [Starevitch](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/starevitch/)
- [The Small One](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-small-one/)
- [Don Bluth](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/don-bluth/)
- [Mickey Mouse](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mickey-mouse/)
- [Mickey's Good Deed](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mickeys-good-deed/)
- [Melissa Guion](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/melissa-guion/)
- [Baby Penguins Everywhere](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/baby-penguins-everywhere/)
- [Christmas in Wales](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/christmas-in-wales/)
- [A Child's Christmas in Wales](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/a-childs-christmas-in-wales/)
- [Dylan Thomas](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dylan-thomas/)
- [Tom Jones](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/tom-jones/)
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- [Dave Brubeck](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dave-brubeck/)
- [Dave Brubeck Quartet](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dave-brubeck-quartet/)
- [The Real Ambassadors](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-real-ambassadors/)
- [Paul Desmond](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/paul-desmond/)
- [Take Five](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/take-five/)
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- [Dave Brubeck Quartet at Carnegia Hall](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dave-brubeck-quartet-at-carnegia-hall/)
- [Louis Armstrong](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/louis-armstrong/)
- [Ravi Shankar](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ravi-shankar/)
- [Obituary](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/obituary/)
- [George Harrison](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/george-harrison/)
- [Anoushka Shankar](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/anoushka-shankar/)
- [Sivamani](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sivamani/)
- [Arun Shenoy](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/arun-shenoy/)
- [Usha Uthup](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/usha-uthup/)
- [Robert F. Kennedy](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/robert-f-kennedy/)
- [Newtown shooting](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/newtown-shooting/)
- [Pete Seeger](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/pete-seeger/)
- [Where Have All the Flowers Gone](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone/)
- [Joanne Shaw Taylor](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/joanne-shaw-taylor/)
- [White Sugar](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/white-sugar/)
- [Diamonds In the Dirt](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/diamonds-in-the-dirt/)
- [Almost Always Never](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/almost-always-never/)
- [Mike McCarthy](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mike-mccarthy/)
- [Mitch Woods](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mitch-woods/)
- [the Rocket 88s](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-rocket-88s/)
- [Professor Longhair](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/professor-longhair/)
- [Blues Beyond Borders](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/blues-beyond-borders/)
- [Raul Malo](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/raul-malo/)
- [Marshmallow World](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/marshmallow-world/)
- [Carl Sigman](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/carl-sigman/)
- [Elvis Presley](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/elvis-presley/)
- [Silver Bells](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/silver-bells/)
- [Angela Hewitt](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/angela-hewitt/)
- [Debussy](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/debussy/)
- [Clair de Lune](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/clair-de-lune/)
- [Michael Sigman](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/michael-sigman/)
- [The Specials](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-specials/)
- [New Year's resolutions](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/new-years-resolutions/)
- [Serena Matthews](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/serena-matthews/)
- [Moon River](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/moon-river/)
- [All The Way To Bethlehem](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/all-the-way-to-bethlehem/)
- [Ride Lonesome](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ride-lonesome/)
- [Budd Boetticher](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/budd-boetticher/)
- [Burt Kennedy](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/burt-kennedy/)
- [James Coburn](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/james-coburn/)
- [Heckle and Jeckle](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/heckle-and-jeckle/)
- [Hubble Telescope](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/hubble-telescope/)
- [Fornax](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/fornax/)
- [NGC 1097](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ngc-1097/)
- [Zeta Ophiuchi](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/zeta-ophiuchi/)
- [William Shakespeare](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/william-shakespeare/)
- [John Keats](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/john-keats/)
- [Robert Burns](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/robert-burns/)
- [Thomas Campion](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/thomas-campion/)
- [Robert Frost](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/robert-frost/)
- [Goofy](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/goofy/)
- [Peter O'Toole](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/peter-otoole/)
- [Lawrence of Arabia](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/lawrence-of-arabia/)
- [David Lean](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/david-lean/)
- [7 Pillars of Wisdom](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/7-pillars-of-wisdom/)
- [Brian McGrory](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/brian-mcgrory/)
- [Buddy: How a Rooster Made Me a Family Man](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/buddy-how-a-rooster-made-me-a-family-man/)
- [Talking Animals NPR](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/talking-animals-npr/)
- [The Absence](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-absence/)
- [Album of the Year](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/album-of-the-year-2/)
- [Heitor Pereira](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/heitor-pereira/)
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- [Bedroom Sessions](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/bedroom-sessions/)
- [Karl Jenkins](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/karl-jenkins/)
- [The Peacemakers](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-peacemakers/)
- [Soft Machine](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/soft-machine/)
- [The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-armed-man-a-mass-for-peace/)
- [the Really Big Chorus](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-really-big-chorus/)
- [Rundfunkchor Berlin](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/rundfunkchor-berlin/)
- [London Symphony](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/london-symphony/)
- [Anne Frank](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/anne-frank/)
- [Nelson Mandela](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/nelson-mandela/)
- [Rumi](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/rumi/)
- [Adiemus](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/adiemus/)
- [Stabat Mater](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/stabat-mater/)
- [Quirt](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/quirt/)
- [Sutaras](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sutaras/)
- [Lithuania](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/lithuania/)
- [Lithuanian folk music](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/lithuanian-folk-music/)
- [The Wonders of the Beggar's Kingdom](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-wonders-of-the-beggars-kingdom/)
- [Vilnius Jazz Quartet](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/vilnius-jazz-quartet/)
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- [Michele Clark Jenkins](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/michele-clark-jenkins/)
- [Sisters in Faith Holy Bible](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sisters-in-faith-holy-bible/)
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- [Caravans](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/caravans/)
- [Dorothy Norwood](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dorothy-norwood/)
- [Albertina Walker](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/albertina-walker/)
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- [Lord](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/lord/)
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- [There Must be a God Somewhere](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/there-must-be-a-god-somewhere/)
- [Shirley Caesar](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/shirley-caesar/)
- [Pastor Mitty Collier](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/pastor-mitty-collier/)
- [The Rance Allen Group](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-rance-allen-group/)
- [Manifest](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/manifest/)
- [Trey McLaughlin and the Sounds of Zamar](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/trey-mclaughlin-and-the-sounds-of-zamar/)
- [Pastor Van D. Robertson](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/pastor-van-d-robertson/)
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- [Annelies](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/annelies/)
- [Lincoln Trio](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/lincoln-trio/)
- [Bharat Chanda](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/bharat-chanda/)
- [Arianna Zuckerman](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/arianna-zuckerman/)
- [Luminosity](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/luminosity/)
- [Sairom Moon](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sairom-moon/)
- [Shadra Strickland](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/shadra-strickland/)
- [Elisa Kleven](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/elisa-kleven/)
- [Patti Page](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/patti-page/)
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- [KVOO](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/kvoo/)
- [Mitch Miller](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mitch-miller/)
- [Mercury Records](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mercury-records/)
- [Tennessee Waltz](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/tennessee-waltz/)
- [Old Cape Cod](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/old-cape-cod/)
- [Changing Partners](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/changing-partners/)
- [How Much Is That Doggie In the Window](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/how-much-is-that-doggie-in-the-window/)
- [Mockin' Bird Hill](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mockin-bird-hill/)
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- [Handel](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/handel/)
- [Israel in Egypt](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/israel-in-egypt/)
- [Rupert Hughes](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/rupert-hughes/)
- [F. Marion Crawford](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/f-marion-crawford/)
- [Corleone](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/corleone/)
- [Stradella (the novel)](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/stradella-the-novel/)
- [Sedley Taylor](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sedley-taylor/)
- [Peacemakers](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/peacemakers/)
- [Dailey & Vincent](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dailey-vincent/)
- [Ruthie Foster](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ruthie-foster/)
- [The Giving Tree Band](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-giving-tree-band/)
- [The Earl Brothers](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-earl-brothers/)
- [Steep Canyon Rangers](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/steep-canyon-rangers/)
- [Anne Akiko Myers](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/anne-akiko-myers/)
- [Mark O'Connor](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mark-oconnor/)
- [Loop 2.3.4](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/loop-2-3-4/)
- [Sean Costello](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sean-costello/)
- [Special Consensus](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/special-consensus/)
- [Brand New Strings](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/brand-new-strings/)
- [Alison Balsom](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/alison-balsom/)
- [My Sandy Hook Fund](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/my-sandy-hook-fund/)
- [Dave Hammond](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dave-hammond/)
- [Jeremiah Hicks](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/jeremiah-hicks/)
- [Heal the Land](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/heal-the-land/)
- [China Beach DVD](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/china-beach-dvd/)
- [Blake Shelton](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/blake-shelton/)
- [Ray Price](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ray-price/)
- [Revelation Road: Beginning of the End](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/revelation-road-beginning-of-the-end/)
- [Lance Armstrong](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/lance-armstrong/)
- [Tom Cruise](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/tom-cruise/)
- [Scientology](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/scientology/)
- [Manti T'eo](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/manti-teo/)
- [David Foster Wallace](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/david-foster-wallace/)
- [The All American Soldier](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-all-american-soldier/)
- [O.J. Simpson](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/o-j-simpson/)
- [Alicia Olatuja](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/alicia-olatuja/)
- [2013 Presidential Inaugural](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/2013-presidential-inaugural/)
- [Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/brooklyn-tabernacle-choir/)
- [Michael Olatuja](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/michael-olatuja/)
- [the Olatuja Project](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-olatuja-project/)
- [The Promise album](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-promise-album/)
- [American Drive](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/american-drive/)
- [J.D. Crowe](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/j-d-crowe/)
- [Dwight McCall](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dwight-mccall/)
- [Ricky Wasson](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ricky-wasson/)
- [Mark DeSpain](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mark-despain/)
- [Kyle Perkins](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/kyle-perkins/)
- [Earl Brothers](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/earl-brothers/)
- [Robert Earl Davis](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/robert-earl-davis/)
- [Outlaw Hillbilly](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/outlaw-hillbilly/)
- [Juliet and the Lonesome Romeos](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/juliet-and-the-lonesome-romeos/)
- [No Regrets album](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/no-regrets-album/)
- [Juliet Simmons Dinallo](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/juliet-simmons-dinallo/)
- [Michael Dinallo](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/michael-dinallo/)
- [Lisa Matassa](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/lisa-matassa/)
- [Bobby Graziose](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/bobby-graziose/)
- [Tony Bruno](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/tony-bruno/)
- [Juliette Barnes](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/juliette-barnes/)
- [Shania Twain](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/shania-twain/)
- [Somebody's Baby](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/somebodys-baby/)
- [Mississippi Heat](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mississippi-heat/)
- [Delta Bound](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/delta-bound/)
- [Pierre Lacocque](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/pierre-lacocque/)
- [Inetta Visor](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/inetta-visor/)
- [Hambone Cameron](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/hambone-cameron/)
- [Billy Flynn](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/billy-flynn/)
- [Deita Farr](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/deita-farr/)
- [Giles Corey](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/giles-corey/)
- [Carl Weathersby](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/carl-weathersby/)
- [Tommy Johnson](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/tommy-johnson/)
- [Son House](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/son-house/)
- [Charley Patton](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/charley-patton/)
- [Tommy Johnson Tombstone Desecration](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/tommy-johnson-tombstone-desecration/)
- [Mount Zion Memorial Fund](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mount-zion-memorial-fund/)
- [Eddie C. Campbell](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/eddie-c-campbell/)
- [Delta Reign](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/delta-reign/)
- [Hank Williams](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/hank-williams/)
- [Pat Murphy](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/pat-murphy/)
- [Benita Murphy](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/benita-murphy/)
- [Blind Faith](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/blind-faith/)
- [George Mason](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/george-mason/)
- [Calm Before the Storm](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/calm-before-the-storm/)
- [Flatt and Scruggs](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/flatt-and-scruggs/)
- [Steve Winwood](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/steve-winwood/)
- [Dinu Lipatti](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dinu-lipatti/)
- [Piano Music of Dinu Lipatti](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/piano-music-of-dinu-lipatti/)
- [Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/calvin-owens-blues-orchestra/)
- [Charles "CD" Davis](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/charles-cd-davis/)
- [Rue Davis](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/rue-davis/)
- [Trudy Lynn](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/trudy-lynn/)
- [Jabo the Texas Prince of Zydeco](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/jabo-the-texas-prince-of-zydeco/)
- [Roberta Donnay](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/roberta-donnay/)
- [Barrelhouse Chuck](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/barrelhouse-chuck/)
- [Ken Saydak](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ken-saydak/)
- [John Primer](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/john-primer/)
- [Percy Mayfield](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/percy-mayfield/)
- [Jimmy McCracklin](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/jimmy-mccracklin/)
- [Elmore James](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/elmore-james/)
- [B.B. King](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/b-b-king/)
- [Dick Hyman](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dick-hyman/)
- [Heather Masse](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/heather-masse/)
- [Wailin' Jennys](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/wailin-jennys/)
- [Kurt Weill](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/kurt-weill/)
- [Cole Porter](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/cole-porter/)
- [George and Ira Gershwin](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/george-and-ira-gershwin/)
- [Rodgers and Hart](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/rodgers-and-hart/)
- [Buddy Johnson](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/buddy-johnson/)
- [Robert Mitchum](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/robert-mitchum/)
- [Thunder Road](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/thunder-road/)
- [Calypso Is Like So...](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/calypso-is-like-so/)
- [Johnny Mercer](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/johnny-mercer/)
- [John Huston](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/john-huston/)
- [Night of the Hunter](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/night-of-the-hunter/)
- [River of No Return](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/river-of-no-return/)
- [Heaven Knows](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/heaven-knows/)
- [Mr. Allison](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mr-allison/)
- [Marilyn Monroe](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/marilyn-monroe/)
- [Gabriella Barouch](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/gabriella-barouch/)
- [Julie Danielson](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/julie-danielson/)
- [Edward Lear](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/edward-lear/)
- [Giving Tree Band](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/giving-tree-band/)
- [Vacilador](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/vacilador/)
- [Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/robert-hunter-and-jerry-garcia/)
- [Eric Fink](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/eric-fink/)
- [John Steinbeck](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/john-steinbeck/)
- [The Wayward Bus](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-wayward-bus/)
- [Cold](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/cold/)
- [Cold Rain](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/cold-rain/)
- [Night of the Blood Beasts](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/night-of-the-blood-beasts/)
- [Roger Corman](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/roger-corman/)
- [Gene Corman](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/gene-corman/)
- [Gertie the Dinosaur](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/gertie-the-dinosaur/)
- [Winsor McCay](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/winsor-mccay/)
- [Little Nemo](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/little-nemo/)
- [The Story of a Mosquito](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-story-of-a-mosquito/)
- [Barrett Sisters documentary](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/barrett-sisters-documentary/)
- [Delois Barrett Campbell](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/delois-barrett-campbell/)
- [DeWayne Woods](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dewayne-woods/)
- [PETA](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/peta/)
- [Tri-City Singers](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/tri-city-singers/)
- [Sharon Riley & Faith Chorale](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sharon-riley-faith-chorale/)
- [Corinthia Cromwell & the Evolution Band](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/corinthia-cromwell-the-evolution-band/)
- [Dan Willis](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dan-willis/)
- [Kurt Carr & the Kurt Carr Singers](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/kurt-carr-the-kurt-carr-singers/)
- [Tisa](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/tisa/)
- [Synophia Tate](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/synophia-tate/)
- [the Clark Brothers](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-clark-brothers/)
- [John Homans](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/john-homans/)
- [Stella the dog](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/stella-the-dog/)
- [Sigmund Freud](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sigmund-freud/)
- [Charles Darwin](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/charles-darwin/)
- [Jane Goodall](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/jane-goodall/)
- [Cesar Milan](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/cesar-milan/)
- [Talking Animals fundraiser](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/talking-animals-fundraiser/)
- [Talking Animals t-shirt](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/talking-animals-t-shirt/)
- [Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/canzoniere-grecanico-salentino/)
- [Salento](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/salento/)
- [Italy](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/italy/)
- [tarantism](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/tarantism/)
- [pizzica tarantata](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/pizzica-tarantata/)
- [Pizzica Indiavolata](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/pizzica-indiavolata/)
- [The Land of Remorse](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-land-of-remorse/)
- [Focu D'Amore](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/focu-damore/)
- [Mauro Durante](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mauro-durante/)
- [Maria Mazzotta](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/maria-mazzotta/)
- [Rina Duranta](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/rina-duranta/)
- [Daniele Durante](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/daniele-durante/)
- [Percy Grainger](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/percy-grainger/)
- [Ella Grainger](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ella-grainger/)
- [Rose Grainger](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/rose-grainger/)
- [Edvard Grieg](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/edvard-grieg/)
- [Bilder Duo](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/bilder-duo/)
- [Country Gardens](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/country-gardens/)
- [Grainger Musuem](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/grainger-musuem/)
- [Self -Portrait of Percy Grainger](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/self-portrait-of-percy-grainger/)
- [Wilfred Mellers](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/wilfred-mellers/)
- [Chubby Checker](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/chubby-checker/)
- [The Chubby Checker App](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-chubby-checker-app/)
- [Hank Ballard](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/hank-ballard/)
- [The Twist](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-twist/)
- [Blue Cactus Choir](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/blue-cactus-choir/)
- [Marty Atkinson](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/marty-atkinson/)
- [Katy Boyd](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/katy-boyd/)
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- [Gregg Allman](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/gregg-allman/)
- [Queen of Hearts](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/queen-of-hearts/)
- [Lou Gehrig's Disease](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/lou-gehrigs-disease/)
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- [Leader of the Pack](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/leader-of-the-pack/)
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- [Ellie Greenwich](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ellie-greenwich/)
- [Jeff Barry](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/jeff-barry/)
- [Janis Ian](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/janis-ian/)
- [Society's Child](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/societys-child/)
- [Vanilla Fudge](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/vanilla-fudge/)
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- [New York Dolls](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/new-york-dolls/)
- [Too Much Too Soon](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/too-much-too-soon/)
- [Give Him a Great Big Kiss](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/give-him-a-great-big-kiss/)
- [George Beverly Shea](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/george-beverly-shea/)
- [Billy Graham](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/billy-graham/)
- [How Great Thou Art](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/how-great-thou-art/)
- [I'd Rather Have Jesus](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/id-rather-have-jesus/)
- [Cliff Barrows](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/cliff-barrows/)
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- [Sweet Hour of Prayer](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sweet-hour-of-prayer/)
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- [Chelyabinsk](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/chelyabinsk/)
- [Stephanie Pappas](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/stephanie-pappas/)
- [LiveScience.com](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/livescience-com/)
- [Douglas Mallette](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/douglas-mallette/)
- [Cybernated Farm Systems](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/cybernated-farm-systems/)
- [TEDx Manhattan](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/tedx-manhattan/)
- [Michael Conard](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/michael-conard/)
- [Urban Design Lab](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/urban-design-lab/)
- [G&H Pastured Poultry LLC](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/gh-pastured-poultry-llc/)
- [Terry Gentry](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/terry-gentry/)
- [Joan Hurst](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/joan-hurst/)
- [Food Safety Moderation Act](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/food-safety-moderation-act/)
- [Delois Barrett Campbell and the Barrett Sisters](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/delois-barrett-campbell-and-the-barrett-sisters/)
- [Sweet Sisters of Zion](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sweet-sisters-of-zion/)
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- [Chanticleer](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/chanticleer/)
- [Louis Botto](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/louis-botto/)
- [The Siren's Call](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-sirens-call/)
- [Sing We Christmas](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sing-we-christmas/)
- [Botto's miracle](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/bottos-miracle/)
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- [Last Words: A Final Collection of Stories](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/last-words-a-final-collection-of-stories/)
- [lilies](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/lilies/)
- [the Lee Boys](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-lee-boys/)
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- [Moses Tyson Jr.](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/moses-tyson-jr/)
- [Speak Life](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/speak-life/)
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- [Turquoise](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/turquoise/)
- [Yonrico Scott](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/yonrico-scott/)
- [Honeytribe](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/honeytribe/)
- [Samantha Fish](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/samantha-fish/)
- [Taj Weekes](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/taj-weekes/)
- [Adowa](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/adowa/)
- [Pariah in Transit](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/pariah-in-transit/)
- [They Often Cry Outreach](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/they-often-cry-outreach/)
- [A Waterlogged Soul Kitchen](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/a-waterlogged-soul-kitchen/)
- [Nancy Carpenter](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/nancy-carpenter/)
- [E](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/e/)
- [Eva Moore](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/eva-moore/)
- [Lucky Ducklings](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/lucky-ducklings/)
- [You Byun](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/you-byun/)
- [Dream Friends](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/dream-friends/)
- [SCBWI Illustrators' Portfolio Award](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/scbwi-illustrators-portfolio-award/)
- [99 River Street](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/99-river-street/)
- [Phil Karlson](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/phil-karlson/)
- [John Payne](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/john-payne/)
- [Evelyn Keyes](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/evelyn-keyes/)
- [Frank Faylen](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/frank-faylen/)
- [Walking Tall](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/walking-tall/)
- [Brad Dexter](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/brad-dexter/)
- [Kansas City Confidential](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/kansas-city-confidential/)
- [The Phoenix City Story](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/the-phoenix-city-story/)
- [Kid Galahad](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/kid-galahad/)
- [A Time for Killing](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/a-time-for-killing/)
- [Paws for Patriots](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/paws-for-patriots/)
- [Southeastern Guide Dogs](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/southeastern-guide-dogs/)
- [Michael Jernigan](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/michael-jernigan/)
- [Brittani](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/brittani/)
- [Judy Bordignon](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/judy-bordignon/)
- [Sergei Prokofiev](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sergei-prokofiev/)
- [Peter and the Wolf](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/peter-and-the-wolf/)
- [Mira Mendelson](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/mira-mendelson/)
- [Sergei Eisenstein](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/sergei-eisenstein/)
- [Alexander Nevsky](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/alexander-nevsky/)
- [Ivan the Terrible](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/ivan-the-terrible/)
- [Prohibition Mod Band](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/prohibition-mod-band/)
- [John R. Burr](https://deeprootsmag.org/tag/john-r-burr/)
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