How Ronnie Douglas settled on the album cover for Music is Medicine
There are songs we all know that came from dreams. “Yesterday” and “Let It Be” by the Beatles are just two that come to...
Francine Honey is promoting Rockets In My Boots, Vol II after retiring from the...
A feeling of transition emanates from every note of Francine Honey’s single, “Unfinished Business.” And that’s totally appropriate for an artist who recently announced...
Craig Robertson shares latest single and video ‘I Never Know What’s on Your Mind’
As singer-songwriter Craig Robertson continues to earn accolades for his latest album, Running the Other Way, he's offering a new video for the song...
Check out Stephen Fearing’s brand new single out today
Juno Award-winning roots troubadour Stephen Fearing releases a new single, “Bring This Song,” today from his 13th album, The Empathist, coming out in early...
Ottawa’s Angelica Jones (formerly The Angelina Hunter Trio) debuts new name and song
Ottawa blues act Angelica Jones has arrived with a new name but same unstoppable energy they brought to the stage when they were previously...
Guitarist Frank Cosentino’s new album is a Comeback after getting sober
After more than four decades of touring, writing, and producing new music, blues rock guitarist Frank Cosentino realized he needed to change his lifestyle.
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Indigenous blues musician D.M. Lafortune reissues ‘Where Are All The Children?’
Toronto Indigenous Blues artist D.M. Lafortune continues to revisit her stellar Beauty and Hard Times album with the latest single "Where Are All The...
Blues musician Sugar Brown’s ‘Toronto Bound’ tells the story of his journey to Canada
Toronto-based blues musician Ken Kawashima (a.k.a. Sugar Brown) documents his life as a semi-itinerant musician on the gorgeous new single "Toronto Bound," the title...
Joel Lee channels hip hop and Forrest Gump on his up-temp country song ‘Jump...
Nanaimo, BC-based country rock musician Joel Lee found himself tiring of the standard topics of country songs. Whether it was the breakups, the cheating,...
Single reviews: Shane Pendergast, Sue and Dwight & Garnetta Cromwell
Gordy the moose reviews some of his favourite new submissions to the Roots Music Canada virtual mailbox.
Shane Pendergast - “Only Drifting By”
Shane Pendergast’s second most...