Rising Appalachia

Rising Appalachia at FloydeFesr, Floyd, Virginia 22 nd July 2010

Essentials: The top 10 Essential Americana Live Albums

June 25, 2026 Richard Parkinson 1

We experience music typically either at a show or on record. The live album is the device by which artists and labels attempt to bridge the two. The types of live album vary. There are shows […]

Rising Appalachia “Lady Liberty” – and thus was a nation forged…

September 8, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s sometimes difficult to square the love of Americana music with what’s reported in the endless news cycle of the latest empty gestures, duplicitous lies, gratuitous fawning, snake oil salesmanship and downright adherence to wrongheaded and […]

Video: Rising Appalachia “The Bones”

May 2, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Check out the latest single from Rising Appalachia. ‘The Bones’, a cover of a song by Maren Morris and Hozier, is arranged and performed with great precision and beauty by Rising Appalachia’s front-women, sisters Leah Song and […]

More People Really Should Know About: Rising Appalachia

August 31, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0

One of the challenges about this feature is figuring out whether an artist is both sufficiently known and unknown to pass the test for inclusion. Rising Appalachia is an act I like enough to have seen […]