EDITOR’S NOTE: As album releases slow down in December, we like to catch our breath and write about albums that came out earlier in the year that we didn’t get a chance to review but we think are worthy of […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As album releases slow down in December, we like to catch our breath and write about albums that came out earlier in the year that we didn’t get a chance to review. L.A. Yesterday was released in July. […]
There is an unexpected calmness to John Calvin Abney’s new record, Familiar Ground. Perhaps it’s because he crafted most of the tracks with his friend, touring partner, and co-producer John Moreland. Maybe it’s because it’s his fifth studio album and he […]
The silver lining of 2020 is that it forced artists to flex their creative muscles in multiple ways: new approaches to writing songs, then finding adventurous avenues to record and promote them. The Steel Wheels upped the ante with an […]
Cover albums can be tricky. Sometimes they fail because the selection of songs doesn’t appeal broadly, but the greatest challenge to any artist covering other songs is capturing the spirit or beauty of the original — then going beyond. The […]
It ain’t easy to drop a lasso around Dave Alvin’s neck and rope him into a musical corral. Since 1979, Alvin’s been a rockin’ county-western folkie soulful bluesblaster, first with brother Phil and then on his own. Alvin was the […]
Scenes from a life under stress unfold on the engrossing Another Wave Is Coming, spotlighting the experiences of a stranger in a strange land — or in the case of New Zealand’s Emily Edrosa, more than one strange land. Whether […]
Listening to Duke Robillard is like sitting in an old comfortable recliner and rocking as hard as humanly possible without flipping over. Surrounded by a cast of aging but still formidable hard-core blues fanatics on Blues Bash, Robillard serves up […]
In recent years, the outlaw country descriptor has become increasingly nebulous. Is it a sound, a fashion style, an overarching aesthetic or lifestyle? What does it mean? In that sense, it’s like the equivalent of punk rock, where it becomes […]
The brothers at the center of Appalachian folk-rock group Wayne Graham had something of a return to form at the start of making their latest record, 1% Juice. Kenny and Hayden Miles went back to the basement studio in their […]
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