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 […]
As his latest solo record, The Reservoir, was taking shape, singer-songwriter Kenny Roby (frontman for 6 String Drag) shared a sparse yet haunting tune with his good friend Neal Casal, an acclaimed guitarist and songwriter who’d worked with Willie Nelson, […]
Getting ahold of the new Ray LaMontagne album, Monovision, is the aural equivalent of grabbing a handful of rich Southern soil. Monovision’s songs are earthen in instrumentation and tone, rooted in Lamontagne’s inimitable vocal and Carolinian geographical references. The melodies […]
For the last 25 years, we’ve come to find a blend of comfort and confusion in the beautiful music of Damien Jurado. Whether the work trends toward plaintive (as in 2019’s In The Shape of the Storm) or psychedelic (his […]
Sarah Siskind’s new album, Modern Appalachia, is more than a deeply affecting introspective turn. It documents the actual processing of making that turn — field notes from a journey home in a figurative and literal sense. For the North Carolina […]
Mark Erelli’s newest release, Blindsided, says just as much about who he is as it does about where he’s been. The secrets are embedded in the restraint of the 11-song set, a collection efficient yet varied, emotional yet exact. It’s […]
These songs will be filed under Aoife O’Donovan’s name, but it’s the artistic alloy that comprises the EP Bull Frogs Croon (and Other Songs) that makes it such a captivating song cycle. That’s not to say O’Donovan doesn’t deserve the […]
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