Jessi Colter is making a statement with the announcement of her new album, Edge of Forever, produced by Margo Price and mixed by Shooter Jennings, Colter’s son with the late Waylon Jennings.
String instrument players from across generations converged recently at Clifftop (the Appalachian String Band Music Festival) and the Hammons Family Fiddle and Banjo Contests and World Class Jam.
The point has always been simply to do the damn work. Ignore the manufactured consent of celebrity and commerce. Some artists doing the work, as evidenced by recent releases: Drive-by Truckers, Malcolm Holcombe, Joni Mitchell, and Don Rogers.
Among Robbie Robertson’s writing credits are classics including “The Weight,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” and “Up on Cripple Creek,” but beyond specific songs, he helped craft a spacier sound in country-rock, laying the foundation for what would come to be called Americana.
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