Rachel Cholst

Get to know the rising blues-rock singer-songwriter.

Andrew Weiss and Friends hearken back to childhood attachments in a wistful folk song that reminds us that innocence and playfulness don't need to live in the past.

“I've just kind of tried to quantify success on personal terms. If you're always looking at either what other artists or people are doing or the numbers, you drive yourself crazy ..."

Although there was a whole lot of off-stage drama in the leadup to the 2020 Grammy Awards ceremony, but that doesn’t take away from the brilliance of the outfits on display on the red carpet.

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Throughout 2020, The Boot will run a series of articles examining country and roots music’s largest trade organizations and how they are embracing -- or not -- their members’ calls to action.

“After the couple of years I have had,” Johannesen observes, “I feel I need a good thaw.”

In a decade of growing awareness and success, one thing has remained the same: Americana’s stubborn resistance to easy explanations.

On “Lady MacGyver,” she blasts through her bluegrass-rock anthem with passionate joy.

There’s a storied tradition in country music of goofy, silly music, and with “Flexible Cowboy Man,” Denver, Colo.'s van Elfmand extends that line a little further.