Not that they play the standards — not on this record, anyway — but they damn well could if they wanted to. Twisted Pine’s latest album almost got past me but I was lucky and grabbed it just before it […]
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Over the course of a decade plus, Eilen Jewell has drawn eclectically from the folk, country, rock, and alt Americana traditions, forging compelling hybridizations, her sensitive songwriting and vocal skills resulting in a multifaceted oeuvre: from the austere debut, Boundary […]
The Sweetback Sisters’ latest release, King of Killing Time, features the velvety vocals of Emily Miller and Zara Bode. Grounded in phrasings, melodies, and instrumentation endemic to country music, the singers and band draw tastefully from other genres and subgenres, […]
The Junket is back and he’s better than ever (I told myself when mere mention of a new album made me shiver and sweat). Then I listened to it. I over-exaggerated, of course, but I was right. That’s what I […]
A review written in 2010 for an album which still holds water: I feel like the guy on the episode of Night Gallery or one of those other fantasy/sci-fi/horror TV shows who survives the earwigs eating their way from ear […]
Each time I listen to indie folk artist Heather Maloney’s new album, Making Me Break, I decide on a new favorite song. As I write this, I believe the title song is my favorite but I know that will change. Heather is […]
Velvet-voiced songwriter Eilen Jewell has been prolific. By my count, six original releases from 2005 to 2011’s critically-acclaimed Queen Of The Minor Key, then a double CD Live At The Narrows out in 2014. It’s been a four-year hiatus since […]
Crooked Still weren’t anybody to know about when their 1995 debut Hop High finally worked into the stereo. Aoife O’Donovan had a pretty voice, but that wasn’t enough, not quite enough, and so, after a quick look at the songlist, […]
When you strip your canvas way down, each splash of color you manage to work in has a dramatic and weighted impact. Kris Delmhorst beautifully flaunts that minimalist artistic approach on her latest release. Starting with the songs themselves, Delmhorst […]
It’s a measure of Caroline Herring’s empathy for her subject, not to mention her skill with pen and guitar, that she can hand us the key to the heart of Susan Smith and let us decide for ourselves if Smith […]
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