I�ve put together a playlist featuring the best roots music from Virginia - local heros, friends, and big names alike.
I�m trying to be a better citizen of my home state�s music.�
Over the past seven years of playing music, I�ve met so many Virginia-based artists who make great music. Virginia�s talent pool runs deep. After all, we gave the world Morgan Wade, Pharrell Williams, Bruce Hornsby, Aimee Mann, and so many more. Hell, we gave the world The Carter Family - country music as we know it was born here. The music coming out of today�s local scenes across the commonwealth is insanely good and is worth celebrating and sharing.
Mother Maybelle Carter, from Southwest Virginia. influenced the course of modern guitar technique�across all genres with her recording of "Wildwood Flower."�
The best way to support local music is by making it to the shows, but I often can�t make it to my friends� gigs because I also play music on most weekends. This is especially true now that I�ve moved to Northern Virginia and can�t practically make it to a lot of shows in the Harrisonburg/Valley scene. With this in mind, I�ve been searching for a way to be a better supporter of the Virginia roots music scene, and then it hit me - why not create a Spotify playlist that shares music from Virginia artists I love and promote it every week via social media?�
And so I did. The Rising Virginia Americana playlist is now live on Spotify, and features artists from Virginia, including local heroes, friends, and big names alike.�
For future issues of my newsletter Fiction & Fact, I�ll include a list of the newest additions to the playlist, along with links to the artist's website and/or social media. It�s so important to support music coming out of Virginia, and I hope you�ll follow along as we build our commonwealth�s music scene!
Since I�ll be updating this playlist weekly, follow it at the link below to see the newest additions. Shoot me an email too if there are any artists you�d like to see added!
