Review by Douglas Heselgrave

This emotive and powerful debut album featuring guest performances from Richard and Teddy Thompson, Martha Wainwright and Sean Lennon is surprisingly beautiful and offers listeners far more than the sum of its parts. 

If a predilection for…

Nathan Salsurg can be described as a guitarist, songwriter, archivist, radio show host, and record collector. Salsburg has worked at the Alan Lomax Archive since 2000, and he released his solo debut album, Affirmed (No Quarter), and a collaboration with James Elkington called Avos (Tompkins Square) last year.

As a guitarist and songwriter, Mr. Salsburg has admired, and in turn,…

Laura Cantrell has got a busy month coming up. She’s has a five year old daughter and a full time job as a consultant at Wall Street investment bank and she’s starting a four week series of shows at New York’s Hill CountryBBQ on Thursday (Feb 2nd).

We met at the towering corporate edifice that serves as her workplace in midtown…

You know that ticket sales have been brisk when this room above the pub has been cleared of furniture and the show is standing only. And so it was for the songstress from Seattle on the penultimate night of her UK tour. Backed by a four-piece band (Greg Nies – drums, Mike McDermott – bass, Ethan Lawton – mandolin and Dave Harmonson – electric guitar and pedal steel) Zoe Muth opened up the proceedings with the title track from her sophomore album "Starlight Hotel."

The album has been…

I shouldn’t have been too surprised to find a queue stretching down three flights of stairs to the basement of Cluny II following Madison Violet’s fantastic performance last year at the tiny Central Bar. 

All of the seats were full and people were still filing in when Rebecca Pronsky and her guitarist Rich Bennett took to the stage, with the New Yorker chatting non-stop as she tuned her guitar.



The duo filled the 45 minute support slot very well…

Maybe I'm a little jaded, but there aren't too many  people I'd get excited about meeting. 

Billy Joe Shaver is an exception.

He's a writer that proves less is more which meant a lot when my dad showed me "Tramp on Your Street" while I was in college.  Surrounded by people trying to use big words…

At last!  With ‘Traveller,’ Anoushka Shankar has finally released an album worthy of her immense talent

 The first time I heard Anoushka Shankar play live, I was completely mesmerized.  She was a very young woman then, touring with her father, but even in her earliest performances, she communicated a unique ability to fuse what she’d learned from a lifetime of disciplined study with a broader palette of sounds that owed as much to Jimi…

If I haven't been been a huge Pines fan for a few years, if I didn't think Red House Records is one of the greatest indie record labels in business today, if their incredible banjo player Michael Rossetto wasn't someone I've known and worked with in the past, if founding band member David Huckfelt hadn't…