Langhorne Slim & the Law pulsate from the first notes of their new album, The Spirit Moves. The frantic bass drum kick of the opening title track sets the tone of an artist trying to get it all in: banjo and […]
Langhorne Slim & the Law pulsate from the first notes of their new album, The Spirit Moves. The frantic bass drum kick of the opening title track sets the tone of an artist trying to get it all in: banjo and […]
A sure-fire, step-by-step account of how to make the ideal bluegrass album Critical Ingredients one roots music troubadour – with enormous standing and credibility, with a vision to make a great result, an emotive leather-worn voice with an acute music sensibility, a great instrumentalist […]
The best thing about being a music writer is that you get sent a lot of free music. That’s also the worst thing. As with any art form, there’s a lot of crap out there. But oftentimes unexpected treasures will […]
June Carter Cash came into this world as a niece to A.P. Carter, who was a giant of American music, as stoic and distant as a Civil War portrait. Her mother, Maybelle, was a beloved matriarch, not just of a […]
It’s a fair guess that Brett Dennen is happy with his feet in the sand. Influenced in equal measures by Bob Marley and Graceland-era Paul Simon, Dennen’s buoyant So Much More is an ideal soundtrack for a southern California beach […]
Judging by the evidence here, a “workbench song” is one that Guy Clark has lovingly cobbled together, usually with an old friend or new, for no other reason than it sure is fun to cobble together songs while nursing cups […]
Despite her deceptively girlish delivery, Mary Karlzen brings a mature approach to this diverse collection. Karlzen took a well-received walk-in-the-park with the majors on 1995s Yelling At Mary (Atlantic), but her hard-to-pigeonhole approach lacked radio traction, and she slipped out […]
Texas native Deryl Dodd recorded two albums for Sony in the late 1990s. Both they and his singles got short shrift then, with the evil empire of Garth still ruling Music Row. Dualtone’s atmosphere is clearly more to his liking, […]
In a parallel universe, Radney Foster is the guy I’d pick to renovate my old Greek Revival house in New Orleans’ Garden District (my fantasy pied-a-terre in Tuscany is just fine as is, thanks). In that dimension, as in this […]
Robinella & the CC String Band’s 2003 debut for Columbia was praised to the barn rafters and garnered comparisons to Alison Krauss. Fast forward to now: Robin Ella Contreras has been listening to another Ella, Ella Fitzgerald, as well as […]
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