Unlike many of his postpunk counterparts, Paul Westerberg never seemed to mind, at least in theory, the idea of writing catchy, perfectly constructed pop songs, and his early solo work (1993’s 14 Songs, a handful of tracks on the Singles […]
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Mandolinist David Grisman has been in the business — bluegrass and (sometimes way) beyond — for around 40 years, plenty of time to have made a lot of friends. Lately he’s been using his Acoustic Disc label to record and […]
No person has brought respect and worldwide recognition to the conjunto accordion of Mexican-American Texans more than Leonardo “Flaco” Jimenez. He’s the one who took the button squeezebox out of its folkloric confines and crossed it over into the rock, […]
For his third vocal album (and first in 21 years), Lee chooses a noble theme: the work of his friend and onetime bandleader, Emmylou Harris. All ten songs are drawn from the Harris repertoire (some of them familiar hits, others […]
Rockabilly revivalism, a tribute to a vogue and a dinner theater of the damned, has not produced much compelling music. Among the herd of amiable necrophiliacs attracted to the subculture, there is little fresh thinking, and few good players. But […]
As a musician, Darrell Scott is an A-list multi-instrumentalist who has performed on countless albums by the likes of Steve Earle, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Kate Rusby, and toured with Guy Clark, Tim O’Brien and Sam Bush. As a songwriter, […]
When it’s a lonesome night in Austin, Chip Taylor will “go hear ol’ Redd [Volkaert] and Earl Poole Ball play a sad one.” And sometimes Taylor needs to get away from it all, so he listens to songs “where wasted […]
Any notion that Jason Ringenberg’s first children’s record is just for kids is shot to shitsville with “The Tractor Goes Chug Chug Chug”, the fourth track on this stupidly infectious solo outing. All southern-fried wah-wah guitar and clickity-clack bottom end, […]
Paul Burch’s latest is a compassionate study of the country swing groove, its twelve tracks chronicling the enduring truths of love and loss to rhythms tuned to Nashville’s hidden heart. Burch also continues to carve out his own artistic niche […]
Matthew Ryan remains one restless soul. His fourth widely-distributed album (Ryan also has two limited-edition, website-only releases) finds the singer-songwriter overwhelmed by characters out of step with their lovers, themselves, and/or the world around them. It’s nothing new. The Nashville […]
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