The first two tracks on Michael Doucet’s new album are solid Cajun stuff. They are rollicking tracks like those at which Doucet’s old band, BeauSoleil, excelled — but nothing unusual. Then it changes: Lâcher Prise gives you many more spicy […]
On the Buddy Holly-like rockabilly romp, “My Neighbours Ghost” — the second song on Robert Vincent’s new album — the acclaimed guitarist and songwriter ponders the value of life, recognizing its indifference to what we do to prolong it. As […]
A lot of ugliness lives in Unlovely, the third full-length record from Boston-based trio The Ballroom Thieves. The world is burning (“In the Dark”), there’s anger (“Homme Run”) and pain (“Don’t Wanna Dance”), and a cacophony of bad news envelops […]
Phil Madeira is a Renaissance man. He’s an in-demand sideman in Nashville — he played keyboard and accordion at the recent Songwriting with Soldiers concert there — he’s a constant in Emmylou Harris’ band, the Red Dirt Boys, he’s a […]
A little more than halfway through Tami Neilson’s new album, the rambunctious rockabilly tune “Tell Me That You Love Me” gambols animatedly, mimicking a lover’s breathless desire for the promise of love. The driving bass and drum propel the guitars […]
There can be strength in fusion. Sure, it doesn’t always work (anyone else remember rap-metal?), but the other side of the coin is jazz fusion, without which we wouldn’t have Return to Forever, or even the scorching, high-test fusion that […]
Old-time warmth, 21st-century sass. It’s a potent recipe for that few artists successfully pull off — and Miss Tess is one of them. The vintage Nashville-based singer lays down world-weary vocals and scorching guitar solos on her 1930s Weymann archtop, […]
There are no small statements made on LP5, John Moreland’s fifth full-length solo album. Like his records that have come before, a subtle thread of faith is strewn throughout, placing Moreland’s poetry in an often divine, always complex space. In the […]
The Lone Bellow have never been strangers to letting their personal lives saturate the music they create. In fact, Zach Williams first began writing songs as a way to cope with the paralysis his wife was left with following a horseback […]
Christopher Paul Stelling is one of those artists who seems to live life on an endless tour, constantly moving from place to place, never staying too long. This very situation is what led Stelling to building a relationship with Ben […]
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