2013: The Year in Roots Music

As we close out 2013, it's time to share some highlights of American Roots music highlights for the year. They include Slaid Cleaves’ 10th release-“Still Fighting The War.” The original inspiration for the song  came to Cleaves from a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning photos of Iraq War veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. It’s a song that ended up taking him four years to write.   “I’d seen stories in the news about Vets coming back and having a hard...

© La Voix de l'Amérique - mardi 31 décembre 2013