From its very first bars, the Milk Carton Kids’ new album, The Only Ones, pulls listeners in close. “I don’t want to fight anymore,” the duo sing in the opening lyric of “I Meant Every Word I Said,” accompanied solely […]
Forget what’s “age appropriate” for EmiSunshine, a 15-year-old phenom with six years’ experience in the public eye. As new album Family Wars proves, few current artists of any age can pull off murder ballads, ghost stories, and other slightly deranged […]
When Jimmy “Duck” Holmes sings about hard times, you know he’s been there. It’s in his hands and his voice, his guitar in an open minor tuning in D or E and his voice a raspy, mournful, weary narrative from […]
There is a preponderance of gravel-voiced singers in Americana and alt-country. It would be rude to name names, but often enough it’s an affectation. Often enough, the rasp has been forced upon a perfectly gentle and pleasant voice. To this […]
Buck Owens and Merle Haggard are the poster boys for the unique sound of their hometown, but wagonloads of musical pioneers were churning up the Bakersfield, California, dust before them two good ol’ boys rode out of town toward brighter […]
Karen Pittelman returns to her roots on Guaranteed Broken Heart: gothic summonings and Jewish country music. Pittelman, the frontwoman for Karen & the Sorrows, has been a leading light in the queer country movement. Her long-standing concert series, the Gay […]
A mournful fiddle, backed by the muted strum of a mandolin, opens Darin and Brooke Aldridge’s achingly gorgeous version of The Louvin Brothers’ “Every Time You Leave.” After the first four instrumental bars, the duo adds their layers of near-perfect […]
The two-part tale of “Snake Man” from The Dead South’s new album, Sugar & Joy, just about sums up the band’s Jekyll-and-Hyde juggling of old-time music tradition and punk-rock rebellion. Atmospheric stringband jam “Snake Man Pt. 1” leads into a […]
Chris Knight is a storyteller. Since releasing his self-titled debut in 1998, Knight’s been telling unforgettable tales in a matter of minutes. Chris Knight opens with the classic “It Ain’t Easy Being Me,” which begins: “There ought to be a town somewhere […]
Theologian Kosuke Koyama once wrote that “there is a powerful trend in our world today to turn away from the traditional toward the revolutionary.” Koyama points out that no matter how much you move toward the “supersonic aircraft,” the traditional […]
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