Tim O’Brien’s gut-wrenching short story “The Things They Carried” evokes the pain of carrying a weight that can never be made lighter. Much as Lieutenant Jimmy Cross tries to shed the weight of the unrequited love for Martha by destroying […]
Tim O’Brien’s gut-wrenching short story “The Things They Carried” evokes the pain of carrying a weight that can never be made lighter. Much as Lieutenant Jimmy Cross tries to shed the weight of the unrequited love for Martha by destroying […]
On April 21 2017 Jason Eady returns with his first album in more than three years (via Thirty Tigers). The self-titled release is the Mississippi-born, singer-songwriter’s sixth full-length collection. He has a voice that belongs to the school of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, with a […]
Like Elizabeth Cook, Sunny Sweeney launched her career more than a decade ago as a major-label country ingénue, before finding a more hospitable reception in Americana. Maybe she had a little too much edge and attitude at the time for […]
The music made by Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band has always been out of synch with the norm. Its handle aside, the Big Damn Band is no bigger that a trio, and the Reverend himself finds his spiritual solace in […]
Jay Farrar has a voice you just know. There is a familiar sadness that inhabits it, but doesn’t weigh it down. It just lives inside it, like a breathing organism, and when you hear him sing, you want to live […]
Certainly No Depression (1990) has its stellar moments, including the title song / Carter Family classic, as does the band’s final release, Anodyne (1993), which captures Uncle Tupelo’s cumulative growth musically and as songwriters. Following the breakup of UT, however, […]
These are demoralizing times for most Americans, and it’s at such historical junctures that music is most potent and therapeutic. Ruthie Foster couldn’t have known it as she was recording her deeply satisfying new album, Joy Comes Back, but the […]
No Texas honky-tonker could slip more easily into saloon singing than Delbert McClinton does on Prick of the Litter (out January 27 on Thirty Tigers). With arrangements built more on jazzy keyboards and saxophones than the usual guitar sting, the […]
While it took seminal, signature ensembles like Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers to define the notion of being a roots-rocker, it’s now up to bands like Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell and the 400 […]
Nashvillian Andrew Leahey makes earnestly poppy roots-rock driven by ragged-edged, garagey guitar which, combined with the nasal twang of his vocals, earns plenty of comparisons to Tom Petty. The band’s latest, Skyline in Central Time, delivers more of the same, […]
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