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Air Devil’s Inn on a Saturday Night: On Dive Bars and Bar Bands
By Beth Newberry Photos by Jeremy Brooks and Darrell Mankin Air Devil’s Inn is most alive on a summer night when the humidity is high, and the heat makes your clothes feel a little closer to your skin,...
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Roots & Boots Radio Redux
Did you miss our appearance on DJ Michael Young‘s radio show “Roots ‘n’ Boots” on WFPK last Sunday? Fear not, the segment is now posted online for you to hear over and over again. Do we sound like you...
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Oscar Parsons: City Boy with a Country Sound
By Niki King In honor of our Roots ‘n Boots music issue, ex-App Oscar Parsons shares his story of how he got to be a fiddler in a bluegrass band in a flat, almost mid-western city miles away from his...
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A review of “Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers”
by Marianne Worthington The first distinctive quality about Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers, Charlie Louvin’s autobiography with Benjamin Whitmer, published just months after his...
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Behind the Scenes of “Satan Is Real”
by Marianne Worthington Marianne Worthington, who reviewed the autobiography Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers by Charlie Louvin and Benjamin Whitmer for The HillVille, interviewed...
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Cabbagetown: A Mountain Village in the heart of Atlanta
By Niki King The HillVille spent an afternoon roaming the streets of Atlanta’s Cabbagetown, a historically Appalachian community, talking to old-timers and newcomers alike about the mountain ways that...
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From the Hollers to City Streets: A Review of 2/3 Goat’s EP “Stream of...
By Beth Newberry The video for the title track of 2/3 Goat’s EP Stream of Conscience features members of the New York City-based band standing knee-deep in a stream in the mountains of Central...
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Bristol Builds From Its Music History Up
By Niki King BRISTOL Tenn./Va. – The moment the Gentleman of the Road tour announced that it would stop in Bristol this August, I emphatically decided I would go. It appealed to me for about a dozen...
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‘All my rivers run back South’: Musician Jonas Friddle’s Tale of Two Cities
By Beth Newberry At the Appalachian Studies Association conference last year, I was talking to a student from Berea College, and I told him I was from Louisville. He asked, “How do you like it there?”...
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Saro Lynch-Thomason’s New Project Remembers America’s Largest Labor Uprising
By Niki King This February, I had the honor of seeing Saro Lynch-Thomason, an Appalachian activist and musician, perform Blair Pathways, a traveling multi-media show at Berea College that she developed...
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A Musical Homecoming: Alan Lomax’s E. Ky. Recordings Return with Two-day Event
by Beth Newberry A big ol’ party celebrating music from Eastern Kentucky is set to happen this Friday and Saturday in the heart of Louisvile’s urban, Clifton neighborhood. The two-day festival, called...
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