For the last 15-ish years, The Infamous Stringdusters have invested heavily in expanding the boundaries of bluegrass with interesting collaborations, inclusive instrumentation, and playful compositions that both flirt with and defy convention. Their artistic excellence and musical pursuits have earned […]
While there’s no obvious primer on the handling of ghosts, there’s enough of a common mythology to infer a few things — one of which is that some form of confrontation and/or appeasement is enough to make them go away. […]
It doesn’t take long for Ashley Monroe to seize control on Rosegold. “There’s nowhere else that you would rather be,” she sings on album opener “Siren.” Okay, then. Monroe has good reason for her artistic confidence after the acclaim for […]
Fresh off the release of her wonderful LP A Small Death last year (ND story here), Samantha Crain has given us a handful of affecting new songs on her new EP, I Guess We Live Here Now. While the former […]
My first response upon hearing Fretland was to search for the assumed missed steps to the trio’s musical present. Could Have Loved You is so affecting and mature — blindsidingly so — that it only felt right to assume that […]
Credit Andrew Marlin for investing his time meaningfully over the last year. Like the rest of us, Marlin and his bandmates in Mandolin Orange were forced to shelve numerous live dates and whatever other musical activities they had planned in […]
It makes sense that Larry Keel would decide to play every ounce of instrumentation on American Dream himself. He also handled its arrangements and production. It’s a move congruent with the thematic ideas waving as proudly here as Old Glory […]
William Elliott Whitmore’s eighth long-player, I’m With You, is his first album of original material since 2015’s Radium Death. For fans hungry for more of the songsmith’s sparse acoustic fare, I’m With You is a welcome offering of rootsy and […]
The foundation of Darlingside’s new album is predictable. The beautiful harmonies, the rich layers, the careful (or is that care-full?) lyrics — they’re all present and accounted for on Fish Pond Fish. What’s unexpected here is a dynamism that builds […]
The Gleam is the name given to a series of EPs released by The Avett Brothers over the years — the most recent emerged in 2008 — and this third edition comes hot on the heels of 2019’s Closer Than […]
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