Taking their name from the classic Carter Family song of the same name, vocalist and banjo player Chelsey Coy and her band deliver an album worthy of the ache, the yearning, and the liberatory ambivalence of their namesake. Joining Coy […]
In “My Stomping Ground,” the driving, horn-stoked rocker that gives his new album its title, Dion is back in the Bronx, where as a youth he first fell in love with music, from doo-wop to the blues. He spies three […]
Since 1989, Joe Bell and his Stinging Blades have been pleasing and scaring the beejesus out of the great local unwashed masses with a blend of hellhound blues, old-school R&B, and deep dish soul. Bell is a whirling, twisted shaman […]
How many times can you capture lightning in a bottle? Rock god Robert Plant and bluegrass legend Alison Krauss did it once, with their 2007 collaboration Raising Sand. It was a smash hit, winning six Grammys (including Record and Album […]
Paying proper tribute to a musician like Neal Casal, whose career spanned nearly 30 years and saw him work with everyone from The Cardinals to Hard Working Americans to The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, takes chutzpah and careful planning. Casal took […]
The banner on Phoebe Hunt’s website reads, “Mystical Indie Folk – Inner Soul Exploration,” which is accurate in one sense, but misleading in others. There’s definitely a spiritual aspect to her story. Her parents met at a yoga ashram in […]
There may be no better match in contemporary music than the “Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele,” Jake Shimabukuro, and the never-waste-a-note guitarist Billy Strings, one of the “Friends” on Shimabukuro’s new album, Jake & Friends. Their song, “Smokin’ Strings,” opens […]
One of the things we have grown to love about Courtney Barnett’s songwriting is the way it weaves intricate trains of thought that mimic our own insecurities and grievances with the world. But her latest, Things Take Time, Take Time, […]
It’s all the Doc Watson a fan could dream of, a head-busting collection of Doc’s music featuring collabs with everybody who is anybody in roots music, including James Cotton, Alison Krauss, Ricky Skaggs, Flatt and Scruggs, and Bill Monroe. Merle […]
As one of her era’s most popular and gifted artists, Joni Mitchell should have been able to rest on her laurels a long time ago. Yet, in recent years, the press has often maligned and caricatured her as little more […]
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