An album of cover songs can serve all sorts of purposes. For a veteran, it might be a chance to take stock of your roots and salute those who provided inspiration way back when (or merely a way to tread […]
The Gleam is the name given to a series of EPs released by The Avett Brothers over the years — the most recent emerged in 2008 — and this third edition comes hot on the heels of 2019’s Closer Than […]
Drawing from a range of folk and country sources, Canadian singer-songwriter Colter Wall offers Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs, adopting and claiming as his own the perennial personas of the rambling man, the cowboy, and the unapologetic […]
Angel Olsen began the process of making her 2019 record All Mirrors with incredibly sparse solo arrangements. Before songs like “Lark,” “Summer,” and “Chance” became shimmering supernovas, they were quiet and haunting, not unlike Olsen in her early days. Amid […]
Bettye LaVette can break your heart, whip your ass, and then make your day before she gets through one line of a song. For far too many years, LaVette was the buried gem that should have been glittering at the […]
The most entertaining track (of many) on Wood & Wire’s excellent new album, No Matter Where It Goes From Here, comes at the end. “Clamp’s Chute” is a nine-minute long live instrumental that is reminiscent of the kind of thing […]
Like many of us, Ruston Kelly’s gone through some real difficult times. For him, it’s addiction, mental health challenges, and addressing the underlying causes of both. It isn’t easy, but Kelly is working through it and has put that work […]
The story of Juni Ata’s debut album, Saudade, is almost as impressive as the music itself — almost. Juni Ata is the stage name of Jesse Daniel Edwards, who until now had been working as a Nashville-based tour manager for […]
At the end of the Bible, John the Revelator writes one of the most apocalyptic, prophetic pieces of text in history. Though the book of Revelation is full of images and stories that conjure visions of the end of times, […]
Over the course of three albums with Mount Moriah and a previous solo album, 2018’s Lionheart, H.C. McEntire has emerged as a vital figure in the world of Americana, mining traditional approaches while stretching the genre to include novel sounds […]
