If you’re gonna try to stick a label on Amos Lee, you better bring a big roll of duct tape, a barrel of super glue, and a packed lunch. Lee never met a genre he didn’t like, and he has […]
If you’re gonna try to stick a label on Amos Lee, you better bring a big roll of duct tape, a barrel of super glue, and a packed lunch. Lee never met a genre he didn’t like, and he has […]
Created spontaneously and collaboratively, Langhorne Slim’s new record, Lost at Last (Vol.1), might be his best yet. Joined by friends who worked closely with him to craft the sound of these songs, there’s a lightness and a breathability to Lost at Last. […]
From the first lick, you know who it is. He doesn’t even have to put a last name on it. Chuck is enough. The Berry-isms come tumbling out as he launches the opener, “Wonderful Woman,” a travelogue through everything Chuck […]
With the deaths of such prominent artists as Prince and Leonard Cohen making headlines in 2016, you may have missed the fact that we also lost the great Guy Clark, who passed away in May. He crafted cogent, plainspoken, memorable […]
Others may lay claim to the title of Ambassador of Music from the Great State of Texas, but few others reflect that birthright more than Robert Earl Keen. For more than three decades, he’s steadily ploughed the realms of authentic […]
The Lumineers write songs with pores, songs that age, and songs can sustain meaning—or diversify meaning—over the course of years. Over the course of four years, to be precise. Proof of that exists on the band’s rustic, self-titled debut, which, […]
There’s something to be said for how an album comes across – especially the often dreaded sophomore record – when the previous music of a band known for fast fame, hasn’t managed to flood one’s ears or impart unavoidable expectations in […]
Carefully consider the band that makes a big splash with their debut but then falters with a follow-up. Joy and disappointment are the initial reactions. And, while anticipation is often at a peak, the results sometimes fail to deliver. Take the […]
Folk music was never supposed to be processed and sanitized radio-ready jingles. This movement happened in 2008, ominously around the same time as the Great Recession, when I guess there was a sort of nostalgia for roots music from the […]
Like any good secret, by now the whole world knows of Wild Child. The Austin alt-darlings have exploded from obscurity in the span of three albums by walking a fine line between Folk, Indie, and Americana. In blending the best […]
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