The Woodland Trust’s panel of tree experts has shortlisted 12 urban contenders from across the UK for this year’s competition – with one additional tree voted for by the public.

Reuters’ photographer Jim Bourg claimed in a tweet on Friday that he heard at least three Trump supporters speak about hanging VP Pence from a tree as a ‘traitor’ during Wednesday’s Capitol riots.

HENRY DEEDES: Republicans can no longer consider Texas the impregnable fortress it once was. Pollsters put Donald Trump and Joe Biden almost neck-and-neck.

As with many bands, the members of Black Stone Cherry, singer and guitarist Chris Robertson, guitarist Ben Wells, bass man John Lawhon and drummer John Fred Young, consider themselves family. Like-minded bands are also thought of as family, and that can be taken literally in the case of the Kentucky…

No one will ever forget Bjork’s feature film debut, “The Juniper Tree.” The film was based on the Brothers Grimm book of the same name, and the film adaptation of the book has since become a cult classic. Now, just in time for the holiday season, “The Juniper Tree” is getting a second life in […]

With some artists, you don’t have to listen to their whole catalog to know that they have a knack for songwriting. On the new album The Tree, Lori McKenna leaves no doubt that she has that knack. “The Fixer” is one of those intriguing story songs about an ordinary sort of character that is known […]

Roots are extremely important to Kentucky’s Black Stone Cherry. The band has familial ties to the legendary Kentucky Headhunters, and when they formed the band in 2001, they even moved their gear into the band’s former practice house. Frontman Chris Robertson and drummer John Fred Young began their…

Some bands don’t fit nicely into one narrow category. You could easily place Ben Miller Band in the Americana category, but that’s a pretty vague categorization – especially for this band. When you see the title of the first song is “Nothing Gets Me Down”, you might expect an upbeat song. That’s not…

Christmas songs have been popular as far back as history tracks music, but rock and roll was a bit slower to embrace the holidays. One of the earliest rock and roll Christmas hits came in 1958 from an unlikely source. 13-year-old country vocalist Brenda Lee released the rockabilly number “Rockin…

It’s fitting that a band with the word “moon” in its name would wind up recording in a landscape like Joshua Tree, one of the mooniest places on earth. Just as horn and drums dance trio Moon Hooch were likely drawn to their moniker, so too were they likely drawn to Joshua Tree, where they […]