It takes only one listen to Make Each Second Last to know you’ve come home. It may be Chris Jones’ smooth, soothing baritone vocals, or it may be the exquisite sonic purity of the never-waste-a-note playing of mandolinist Mark Stoffel, […]
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Even though the thrill of hearing the king of the blues live has been gone since B.B. King died in May 2015, author Daniel de Visé hopes to help us recall how King ascended to the throne of the blues […]
Reading Bobby Rush’s memoir I Ain’t Studdin’ Ya: My American Blues Story is a bit like watching him leave it all the stage at one of his shows. On stage, he works the crowd, rolling from one song into another […]
Santa Cruz, California, native Taylor Rae’s debut album, Mad Twenties, unfolds cinematically, evolving dreamily as it traverses an emotional landscape littered with the shards of a broken relationship. Rae’s edgy vocals slide easily from tender to tough, from gentle whisper […]
Very few rock memoirs feel like sitting in the room with an old friend who’s telling tales about growing up and discovering how deeply music is etched in his heart and dreams, but this is exactly how Dave Grohl’s new […]
John Hiatt has been working at the troubadour trade steadily for over 40 years — well, more if you count his boyhood bands — and he’s produced a catalog of gems that sparkle with wry insight, candor, and introspection. As […]
As music journalist Stephen Deusner points out in his captivating and insightful new book, Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers (Texas), “in crucial ways the Truckers have provided a rip-roaring soundtrack for a very […]
The phrase “Southern Gothic” brings to mind moss-draped drives to plantations, grotesque scenes peopled by mean-spirited men or by sideshow freaks, and haunted woods and houses with the skeletons of slavery filling the closets. In his novel Absalom, Absalom!, William […]
The Way Down Wanderers continue to grow, exploring new musical territory and plumbing new emotional depths on More Like Tomorrow with a new batch of songs that delve into loss and grief, resilience and hope, conflict and reconciliation, love and […]
Kacey Musgraves’ highly anticipated new album, star-crossed, opens appropriately enough with the words “Let me set the scene.” From there, the album unfolds cinematically over the spacious and claustrophobic emotional landscapes through which Musgraves has traveled, physically and psychically, since […]
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