This has been an interesting process. I started compiling my list a couple of weeks ago in something of a grump, feeling that it had ended up being a somewhat disappointing year – with some of my established favourites not […]
This has been an interesting process. I started compiling my list a couple of weeks ago in something of a grump, feeling that it had ended up being a somewhat disappointing year – with some of my established favourites not […]
1) Phosphorescent – Muchacho 2) Kurt Vile – Wakin On A Pretty Daze 3) Caitlin Rose – The Stand-In 4) Jason Isbell – Southeastern 5) Kenny Roby – Memories and Birds 6) Thao and the […]
Steve Poltz soundtrack for a documentary on Dayton O. Hyde Steve Poltz’s soundtrack for Suzanne Mitchell’s documentary Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde, features eight new lyrical songs interspersed among seventeen short instrumentals. Poltz wrote his songs after […]
There isn’t anything earthshaking or seemingly unique about the third album from San Diego based duo Chris James and Patrick Rynn. The twelve song set is a fine mix of original tunes and selected covers firmly rooted in traditional post […]
It’s that time of year when I look back and think: Man, I dropped a lot of money on music this year. Again. So here’s my Top 10 list of the best roots music of 2013. Feel free to disagree. […]
The contrast could not be greater between the muted dark brown cover of Boz Scaggs’ eponymous 1969 debut album and the golden melodies inside. On that cover stands a rumpled young singer-songwriter partially obscuring a nondescript doorway, an image that […]
My daddy told me and I believe he told me true The right thing’s always the hardest thing to do Indeed, it’s not easy to change your life. Whether you’re changing away from addiction, toward an illness your body can’t […]
The Blind Boys of Alabama, five-time Grammy Award winning gospel group, first sang together in 1944. They came together, aged around nine, in the glee club in 1944 at the Alabama Institute for the Blind in Talladega, Alabama. They recorded their first […]
As we all dither over our best-of-2013 lists*, the Americana Music Association has announced its Top 10 Americana albums — but they had an easy time of it. This list isn’t a judgment call; it’s simply based on airplay for […]
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