Almost halfway through Eliza Gilkyson’s exquisite new album, Songs From the River Wind, the gorgeous “Wind River and You” casts a spell with its warm harmonies, flawless instrumentation, and wistful memories of “days that were golden” that “slipped into the […]
Back in January 1966, “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” a single by the Austin-based 13th Floor Elevators, roared through our speakers with a pugnacious spirit; the echoing garage rocker turned Buddy Holly’s hits, the Bobby Fuller Four’s “I Fought the Law,” […]
Bob Dylan once told music critic Bill Flanagan that John Prine’s “stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree.” Almost two years after Prine’s death on April 7, 2020, from complications related to COVID-19, writer Erin Osmon […]
Over the past two years, we have endured the ravages of a pandemic, the miasma of political and social chaos, and the devastation of loss, often obscuring hope in a dark hopelessness that endures even into this season of light. […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As album releases slow down in December, we like to catch our breath and write about albums that came out earlier in the year that we didn’t get a chance to review but we think are worthy of […]
In an only-in-Nashville story, Loney Hutchins went overnight from selling mobile homes to working as a staff writer for the House of Cash, Johnny Cash’s publishing company. Hutchins, whose family grew up in a mountain holler not far from The […]
Well, I suppose this book had to be published. Two years ago, we got the lowdown on the religious life and times, so to speak, of Johnny Cash when Richard Beck examined 15 of Cash’s songs in Trains, Jesus, and […]
This is the season for book awards and prizes, as well as the season that various newspapers and magazines offer their lists of best books. The year in music books has been especially rich, so this year’s list at No […]
As lists of best books of 2021 start to dot the pages of various magazines and book review sections, just in time for the start of the Christmas shopping season, I’m going to list three books for which I […]
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 […]
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