Chris Smither has said he accumulates phrases, musical and lyrical, over time, and slowly pieces them together into the immaculately shaped conceptions for which he is known. Perhaps this accounts for the fact that this is just his twelfth album […]
Chris Smither has said he accumulates phrases, musical and lyrical, over time, and slowly pieces them together into the immaculately shaped conceptions for which he is known. Perhaps this accounts for the fact that this is just his twelfth album […]
It’s kind of amusing to hear cherubic-voiced Aoife O’Donovan sing a number of songs about toting around major firearms. Sure, they’re mainly traditional American roots numbers, but O’Donovan tackles the tunes like a woman who’s been wronged. Badly. Having the […]
On her fourth studio album, Kris Delmhorst takes a journey through the past for inspiration, going back as far as the 13th century. The twelve songs are based on or inspired by the work of classic poets, including Robert Browning, […]
There is no America like the one that serves as a backdrop for the songs on Jeffrey Foucault’s aching new album. There may never have been. But if there was, it was a pre-digital place, a land of drugstore pay […]
Mark Erelli’s fourth effort is the rare treatise that works both as an artistic and political statement, an attentive examination of current times interwoven with matters of the heart. Erelli carried these songs around for several years, with thoughts of […]
It started when four friends gathered to swap other people’s songs in an old house during the snowy season in western Massachusetts. It led to Winterpills, the self-titled debut from a band that quickly discovered its members had their own […]
Beginning with her 1996 solo debut Diary Of A Mod Housewife, Amy Rigby has released five solo albums that examine the balance between romance and domesticity with sparkling wit and a kind of goofy charm. In the hands of a […]
These days everyone with a capo and a four-track recorder is making music and calling it a record. Heres a trio with a portable DAT machine, a single stereo microphone and a living room in Wisconsin thats actually made a […]
Born and raised in Ireland, Mark Geary moved to New York City to play music, regularly sharing the bill with artists such as Jeff Buckley and Katell Keinig at Sin-e, a club co-owned by his brother. During this time Geary […]
Its not exactly a Rockwellian homecoming. In Cross Of Flowers, the opening track to Jeffrey Foucaults new album Stripping Cane, a desolate landscape greets a wary, returning journeyer. First he sees a roadside cross of flowers, then a barren orchard, […]
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