“They’re sisters of one another, or family members,” McKenna says of the genres.
Pilgrim enlists Dolly Parton, Rosanne Cash and Steve Earle, artists who have all mixed folk and country in some manner during their careers. The interplay between folk and country is a subtle part of both MerleFest - which features Maren Morris and Tanya Tucker among its multigenre participants - and a tribute album, I Am a Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100, arriving April 28 on FLi Records/Budde Music. March 3 marked 100 years since the birth of the festival’s co-founder, singer-guitarist Doc Watson, who was one of the key figures in the folk boom of the 1960s.
McKenna, whose composition “Humble and Kind” likewise belongs to both folk and country, is one of the talents performing at the 35th annual MerleFest, a three-day event set for April 28-30 in Wilkesboro, N.C., with historic overtones. ‘Yellowstone’ and TikTok Trends Are Helping Put the ‘& Western’ Back…
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