“I want to save people with music,” Imaad Wasif writes, with unabashed sincerity, in the press release that accompanies his self-titled solo debut. “I feel that I was born to siphon away [people’s] poisons and negative energy so that they […]
Sitting in a Manhattan soul food restaurant and discussing the prospect of fame, James Hunter peppers his speech with the colorful argot of his native Colchester, on the east coast of England: “knee-trembler” (for sex), “piss on his strawberries” (disappoint), […]
Truth is, I have been writing this same story for ten years or more. It has been about Tom House and Mike Ireland, Chris Knight and Mary Gauthier and, even, Gillian Welch and Steve Earle. Especially Billy Joe Shaver. This […]
Josh Ritter says his new album, The Animal Years, reflects his last few years living like a hunter-gatherer: Try to eat, try to sleep, drive to the next town, set up, play music, move on, try to eat again. There […]
