There is a certain style of male voice that just oozes angst. Think Bruce Springsteen, Chris Rea, Thom Yorke. The songs are great — but, oh, the inner pain, the questioning pain! Judging from his new album, Hold Fast, Scottish […]
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The Foreign Landers is a pretty good name for the married roots duo of David Benedict and Tabitha Agnew. He is from South Carolina; she from Northern Ireland. So, music from foreign lands is to be expected on their new […]
The Ladles new album — Springville Sessions — is “nice.” I don’t mean to damn it with faint praise by using such a mealy-mouthed term, but that is the word that kept entering my mind as I listened. There is nothing […]
Dawn Landes’ new album, Row, is to a certain extent a victim of the coronavirus. The soundtrack to a musical, it has been released without the show being staged. It was due to be premiered in summer at the Williamstown […]
The most entertaining track (of many) on Wood & Wire’s excellent new album, No Matter Where It Goes From Here, comes at the end. “Clamp’s Chute” is a nine-minute long live instrumental that is reminiscent of the kind of thing […]
Sometimes an album is more than the sum of its parts, providing a little something extra on top of a good listen. So it is with Jake Blount’s new release, Spider Tales, a collection of black American roots music whose […]
There is a lot of Nashville in Call the Captain, the new album from Seattle-based band Western Centuries — the collaborative songwriting group of Cahalen Morrison, Ethan Lawton, and Jim Miller. Not surprising, perhaps, as it was produced by Nashville […]
The first two tracks on Michael Doucet’s new album are solid Cajun stuff. They are rollicking tracks like those at which Doucet’s old band, BeauSoleil, excelled — but nothing unusual. Then it changes: Lâcher Prise gives you many more spicy […]
There is a moment in Ken Burns’ wonderful Country Music documentary when he traces the twin themes of the genre — singing about home and hearth, or about being out on the lonesome road — to The Carter Family and […]
Bobby Hawk’s first solo album Lights On Kinks Out is one of those releases that requires a few listens. After my first run-through, I thought “meh.” The second left me a bit more positive. When I heard it for the […]
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