‘There is no ‘best’ of anything’: Yes, there Is…
DANNY GATTON, hailed by his fellow virtuosos as mastering the guitar in ways beyond those of mere mortals,…
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The Deep Roots Yuletide Baedeker 2025
The annual DEEP ROOTS YULETIDE BAEDEKER is online, with links to new and vintage content published in Deep…
Holiday Music Stocking Stuffers 2025
A bounty of Stocking Stuffers 2025 including MARK and MAGGIE O'CONNOR, THE TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS, THE SPRINGFIELDS, DARYL MOSELY,…
THE DEEP ROOTS ELITE HALF-HUNDRED of 2022
The Best of the Rest for 2022...winners all!
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…
Blues, Classical & Corky Siegel Ascendant
Blues harmonica master and skilled composer CORKY SIEGEL returns with his CHAMBER BLUES string quartet for a blues-classical…
You Can Go Home Again
MARK O'CONNOR. predictably unpredictable, returns as a member of a splendid roots band featuring his wife MAGGIE, his…
Out of Nowhere, Making a Joyful, and Most Memorable, Noise
Out of St. Louis and in the spirit of The Goat Rodeo Sessions, The Punch Brothers and Mark…
Spring in Verse
Spring cannot arrive too soon, and we anticipate its arrival in verse from SHAKESPEARE, EMILY DICKINSON, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH…
Contemporary Music
During a four-month concert tour of America in 1928, composer MAURICE RAVEL delivered a then-controversial lecture urging American…