It’s often said that the best way to experience bluegrass music is to witness it live. Rarely is the energy of a live performance successfully translated onto an album – especially a studio recording. Thankfully, Elements, the new album from […]
Have you seen the news lately? Things are looking pretty bleak out there, what with the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout. Concerts and other mass-attended events are being cancelled, folks are being encouraged to stay home and avoid public spaces […]
An encounter with The Legendary Ingramettes is as intimidating as it is uplifting. Looking all that raw gospel power right in the face makes the righteous cower and the sinners run for cover. But they all come back, drawn by […]
For the last 50 years, Roomful of Blues have been doing what their name implies: filling up venues around the world with their big, brassy blues treatments. There have been as many members passing through the lineup as years the […]
Dave Simonett, frontman and songwriter for Trampled by Turtles, found a type of therapy in his solo project Dead Man Winter, particularly in the 2017 release of Furnace. Following the end of his 10-year marriage, Simonett opened himself up like never […]
What if I told you it’s possible to distill years of therapy and self-actualization into a single album? You might laugh, but I have good news: Maya de Vitry’s sophomore solo album How to Break a Fall does all that […]
With his self-titled solo debut, Sam Doores, formerly of The Deslondes and Hurray for the Riff Raff, offers hooky melodies and evocative soundscapes, reconfiguring approaches associated with a wide array of genres, including big band, jazz, and traditional country. In […]
From their artful watercolor album cover to their tonal array of jumpsuits, Rookie is quite clearly an aesthetic-minded band. The six-piece Chicago outfit is giving a strong presentation for their self-titled Bloodshot Records debut, telling us with surefire conviction, “This […]
The title track of Sexton’s new album — his first in a decade — rides along a shimmering guitar line that snakes it way through the rolling snare drums and vocal chants of this Mississippi Hill country blues. The hypnotic […]
When we think of Jonathan Wilson, we think of the frantic strings and echo-techno harmonies of 2018’s Rare Bird, or the otherworldly “bleeps” and “bloops” that contrast with pastoral guitars on 2011’s Gentle Spirit. We might even recall the hazy […]
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