From the album Sonny Don’t Go Away – A Tribute to Ron Hynes. From Alan Doyle about the song: “‘St. John’s Waltz’ is perfect poetry. A painting with words and melody. It is literally enchanting. Instantly makes the listener understand a […]
From the album Sonny Don’t Go Away – A Tribute to Ron Hynes. From Alan Doyle about the song: “‘St. John’s Waltz’ is perfect poetry. A painting with words and melody. It is literally enchanting. Instantly makes the listener understand a […]
A Long Hard Road is a celebration of experience, created with some of the most talented musicians of a generation, including Grammy winners Kevin McKendree and Tony Braunagel, Grammy nominee Teresa James, and award-winning producer Terry Wilson. The album embodies a […]
“Everglades” was co-written with Christian Lee Hutson when Jenny was still living in LA. She wrote it in her home studio at the time, leaving the door open to breeze and the occasional honk of neighboring peacocks. Warm harmonies […]
The Black Legacy Project is a musical celebration of Black history to advance racial solidarity, equity, and belonging.
“It’s the good times I remember at the end of the day,” sings folk legend Sylvia Tyson on her upcoming album, At the End of the Day, a collection of new songs that looks backward across a life well lived […]
“To me, roller derby and its athletes perfectly embody the spirit of my song, in all their DIY toughness and subversion of gender roles and constructs. Derby is a cool juxtaposition — people roller skating, which requires balance and […]
“Hominy Valley” details the story of a Cherokee scout who was poisoned by the US Army moving through what is now Asheville, North Carolina, during the Revolutionary War. The scout is buried underneath an oak tree adjacent to the neighborhood […]
“Sometimes love doesn’t work out. And when that happens you can stay at your best friend’s house for two weeks while she follows you around with an 8 mm camera wearing your sad clown makeup and painting your sad clown […]
Written and recorded in The Arcadian Wild’s hometown of Nashville, Welcome marks the start of a captivating new chapter for the genre-bending trio, whose innovative use of vocal harmony and counterpoint has helped redefine the possibilities of modern string band music. […]
Rachael Sage’s ’60s-influenced “Flowers for Free” is poetic pop-rock at its most adventurous. Beatle-esque wah guitar, baroque trumpet flourishes, chamber strings, and Sage’s pulsing piano ground this psychedelic song about never giving up on this earthly life or giving […]
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