At some point in quarantine, the rest of the music world caught up with a truth the bluegrass community already knew: Billy Strings is an unparalleled talent. Following the late-2019 release of the Grammy award-winning Home, with planned spring (and […]
Now’s as good a time as any to ask the question “what do you need a song for?”: After a good 10 days or so this June, when American life looked like it might go back to normal, the country […]
On her 11th studio album, KISS OFF KISS, Erin McKeown stays true to her genre-bending artistic identity, combining her observations of love with reminders of the power of independence. Across 13 songs, the beloved singer-songwriter captures both sides of the […]
Christopher Paul Stelling’s Forgiving It All begins with Stelling’s voice and finger-picked guitar, and the line, “When I was just a little child / It all seemed crystal clear / when I blindly trusted all of it / Before I […]
The phrase “Southern Gothic” brings to mind moss-draped drives to plantations, grotesque scenes peopled by mean-spirited men or by sideshow freaks, and haunted woods and houses with the skeletons of slavery filling the closets. In his novel Absalom, Absalom!, William […]
Cloaking a fear of doom and uncertainty in a joyful, vibrant sound is the name of the game on the latest release from The Felice Brothers, From Dreams to Dust. Ruminating on what often feels like end times, James and […]
If you catch The Barefoot Movement at a bluegrass festival, you’re going to get the standard blazing fast instrumental runs in traded-off solos, beautiful harmonies, love songs and heartbreak songs. But what you won’t get is bored. Members of the […]
Alexa Rose wrote most of Headwaters in the early stages of the pandemic, which she astutely characterizes as having “that weird lucid feeling of not-time.” Accordingly, there’s an eeriness about Rose’s second album; listening to its nine tracks feels like […]
Ana Egge has more than just her way with words. There’s an ever-interesting mastery over the music as well. Together, her creative talents are what make Between Us such a layered and lovely listening experience. Between Us is Egge’s is […]
The release of the 16th installment in Bob Dylan’s ongoing Bootleg Series, Springtime in New York, marks 30 years since the first three volumes appeared as a three-disc boxset in 1991. Three decades is an impressively lengthy career for anyone […]
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