Over Labor Day weekend in 1941, photographer Edward Weston and his wife, Charis, the sister of Highlander Folk School’s librarian, Leon Wilson, stopped at the school for a visit. Weston was traveling across the country taking photographs to accompany a […]
Any album by Merry Clayton is reason to celebrate. Clayton, whose soaring and defiant vocals on the Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” conveyed the raw, visceral emotion of the song and launched it into the sonic stratosphere, returns with her first […]
Brandi Carlile knows how to captivate; she invites us into her songs with her ability to evoke feelings of isolation and loss, forgiveness and hope, love and joy. Carlile entrances us with her stories of people just like us, facing […]
I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees Asked the Lord above, “Have mercy, now, save poor Bob if you please” We all know these lines […]
All we really need to know about this album is that Loretta Lynn performs electrifying new versions of many of her classic songs, and her strong voice still soars and rings with emotional clarity. If that weren’t enough — and […]
A few years ago, musician Marty Jourard, a Gainesville, Florida, native, made the case in Music Everywhere: The Rock and Roll Roots of a Southern Town (ND review) that Gainesville was the crossroads of rock and roll. In the mid- […]
True to its title, Charles Lloyd & The Marvels’ album unfolds orchestrally, tracing various musical phrases and themes through a sonic landscape that evokes bright or pensive moodiness, joyous contemplation, and searching prayerfulness. While all of Tone Poem soars through […]
Valerie June says she’s always been a dreamer. On her new album, The Moon and the Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers, out this Friday on Fantasy Records, she fully embraces her own dream of making music and dispenses songs that […]
Jason Ringenberg is back, following his 2017 album, Stand Tall, and in top form with a collection of romping rockers. Fueled by his prowling rhythm guitar and his shimmering lead runs, they careen around the corners of social issues, lost […]
Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People, Volume II (Bluebird Press) has been a long time coming, and it’s well worth the wait. Continuing along the lines of the first volume, published in 1984, Ann Allen Savoy’s breathtaking sketches of […]
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