On her sophomore album, Woman in Color, Raye Zaragoza confronts her audience with powerful, strident protest songs — the kind of direct, timeless lyrics that everyone with a guitar has been reaching for since November 2016. Few have succeeded, and […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: “The New Normal” is an occasional series of stories that look into how the coronavirus has affected artists, listeners, and the music business. Find other stories in the series here. Nobody asked for a summer like 2020, but […]
On her solo debut, Fiddler’s Pastime, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, fiddler for modern bluegrassers Mile Twelve, flexes both her fiddling and songwriting muscles. Original songs like “Open Water” and “Hendersonville Hop” pair seamlessly with “The Minstrel Boy” and John Hartford’s “Natchez Whistle.” […]
The story of Juni Ata’s debut album, Saudade, is almost as impressive as the music itself — almost. Juni Ata is the stage name of Jesse Daniel Edwards, who until now had been working as a Nashville-based tour manager for […]
If there’s one lesson to take away from Arlo McKinley’s Die Midwestern, it’s the importance of getting back to basics. Musically, the 40-year-old’s solo debut — released on the late John Prine’s Oh Boy label and championed by Prine himself […]
Think old-time songs are old-fashioned? In this age of political malaise, systemic injustice, a health catastrophe, and economic uncertainty, old-time’s sounds and themes can feel alarmingly relevant, especially when brought up to date in the able hands of Golden Shoals. […]
Daniel Donato’s journey to A Young Man’s Country started with rocking out via video game Guitar Hero and quickly shifted to playing the real thing on the streets of Nashville and then joining the house band at the legendary Robert’s […]
From the opening crescendo of “Trouble in Paradise,” Rufus Wainwright stalks through his latest album Unfollow the Rules with leonine grace and confidence. The album is his first pop album since 2012, though Wainwright has been busy, staging two operas […]
I have a distinct memory of opening my review copy of Pharis and Jason Romero’s second album, Long Gone Outwest Blues, back in 2013. Mostly because the packaging has such a distinctive design: a silhouette of a wolf filled with […]
At the end of the day, you just have to chalk it up to experience. That’s the creed behind Secret Emchy Society’s newest album, The Chaser. Recorded in the Bay Area basement of veteran rock and country singer Cindy Emch […]
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