“The album captures the emotional immediacy of the music. It sounds just like what someone would hear if he or she opened the door to the studio and walked in on us playing,” Graham Sharp told me recently about the […]
“The album captures the emotional immediacy of the music. It sounds just like what someone would hear if he or she opened the door to the studio and walked in on us playing,” Graham Sharp told me recently about the […]
David Childers has been through hell. Along the way, he’s romped with giant reptiles (’95’s Godzilla! He Done Broke Out;) went to some folks’ version of hell, Nashville, to record ’98’s Time Machine, which he later declared to be […]
If less is more, then it can easily be said that Bombadil’s latest offering, Fences, provides an abundance of musical wealth with an economy of means. Utilizing a small group of instruments – guitar, piano, upright bass, smatterings of percussion […]
Something happens when listening to singer-songwriter Sammy Walker that is hard to explain. On first listen to his new release of archived stripped down demos titled, Brown Eyed Georgia Darlin’, recorded in the mid-70s, it is easy to dismiss as yet another […]
Brown Eyed Georgia Darlin’, the new collection of old demos from Georgia-born singer-songwriter Sammy Walker, excavates the musical vault of an artist whose work has always, sort of, been stuck in folk music’s own deep storage. A deft guitar picker […]
Samantha Crain found her way to music through storytelling. It was during a fiction writing workshop that she really started exploring what her stories could do when set to melody. Though it would likely be untruthful to cast her first few […]
Not long ago Bombadil sang “Learning to Let Go;” now their upcoming fifth album is called Hold On, and with it comes themes of clinging to memories while grasping for meaning. Many of the songs express discontent, but the lyrics are […]
David Childers has been treading a winding musical path between secular and sacred for decades. His latest album, Serpents of Reformation takes a detour deep into the gospel side of the road with a fascinating grittiness. After years of music-making, the prolific Childers was […]
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