Despite contributions from immensely talented black artists (Lead Belly, Odetta, Elizabeth Cotten, Ma Rainey), folk music can often be a genre that enables and celebrates white mediocrity. White folk singers depend on the exhausted formula of southern drawl and a broken heart to fulfil their dreams of releasing a cliché folk track and frankly, they’re […]
In 2001 long before we were waking up checking our smart phones every morning to see who cares about what we did last night. Brandon Flowers, The Killers frontman, was grooving in the Hard Rock Café in down town Las Vegas to the band Oasis. Here he realised the calling for a new sound leading […]