Soul legend Eddie Floyd wrote, or co-wrote, many memorable hit songs, including “634-5789,” “I’ve Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do),” and “Knock on Wood.” Now, in his autobiography, written with Tony Fletcher, the Alabama native carries […]
The cascading rhythms and flowing melodies of Mary Chapin Carpenter’s new album wash over us, bathing us in their sparkling splendor so that we emerge from these waters cleansed of illusions about ourselves and the world around us. The songs […]
Chicago has always been synonymous with jazz and blues. Even now (at least until March 2020) you could head down to the South Loop to Buddy Guy’s club or just north of downtown to Kingston Mines for a night of […]
The title track of Lori McKenna’s new album unfolds cinematically, breathlessly unfurling layer by layer a tale of desire and passion, longing and disappointment, ascent and descent. Opening sparsely with waves of rolling guitar chords, “The Balladeer” swells suddenly on […]
During the summer — especially this summer — we get a chance to catch up on all that reading we’ve been meaning to do, and to pare away at that stack on the floor beside our bed, or on our […]
When Charlie Daniels died last week, the tributes and accolades poured in from friends and fellow musicians. In their own ways, they each focused on Daniels’ contribution to music, his deep religious faith, and his loyal friendship and generosity and […]
When The Chicks announced they’d be releasing a new album in 2020, the waiting was the hardest part. Most of us couldn’t wait to hear the music Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, and Emily Strayer were going to share with us […]
Halfway through Margo Price’s new album, the soul burner “Hey Child” floats ethereally along the spiraling background vocals of the Nashville Friends Gospel Choir (Gale Mayes, Samson White, Angela Primm), layered over Matt Sweeney’s crystalline lead runs and the gospel […]
What makes a great song? The lyrics? The music? Surely, of course, it’s some combination of the two. We sometimes call a song “timeless” because the lyrics express some universal sentiment, and sometimes the “timelessness” of a song, for us, […]
Various Artists The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1 When John Hartford died in 2001, we lost a musical voice and first-rate humorist whose songwriting carried us down the Mississippi on riverboats and whose musical genius is with […]
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