Dig Up the Roots
Dig Up the Roots is a weekly newsletter focused on music, community, and the countless ways they intersect. Come along for the ride, as I’ll be posting every Wednesday with a new missive about whatever has been filling my ears lately, and why I think it *Matters* to the world.
Awakenings
This anthology features Kim’s essay, “It Wasn’t Supposed to Be This Way,” about her experience with infertility, C-section, and post-partum depression during Covid lockdown. So, you know, a real pick-me-up.
A Singing Army
Zilphia Horton (1910-1935) was an important figure in the story of folks using music as a tool for social change in the United States, but her story was untold and little-known until Kim spent a decade digging it up. A Singing Army is the first biography of the cultural organizer/musician/labor movement educator. It was named one of NPR’s Favorite Books of 2021.
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Why We Write
Tune in twice a month to hear Kim talk songwriting with some of the finest songwriters in the folk/roots/Americana realm.
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