Depending on your state of mind, Cinder Well could be either the best or worst thing to listen to in a lockdown. The brainchild of Amelia Baker, a native Californian lately residing in Ireland’s County Clare, the absorbing No Summer […]
There’s nothing like the grooves of a new record from The Texas Gentlemen to make you really feel the loss of experiencing live music in a room packed with strangers. Floor It!!! is the follow-up to their excellent 2017 release […]
All it takes is a few notes from the opening track of S.G. Goodman’s debut album, Old Time Feeling, to know you’re about to hear something singular and special. Blessed with a one-of-a-kind voice that cuts through the atmosphere like […]
“August of ‘83 / Alicia came to wreck my city,” David Ramirez sings on My Love Is a Hurricane’s title track. “Six days before I was born / I’d like to think that was some kind of warning.” As the […]
Instruments come with assumptions. If you see a tuba, you expect a march or New Orleans jazz. An accordion prepares you for zydeco or polka. And if you see a 48-piece drum kit with a variety of gongs hanging behind […]
When The Chicks announced they’d be releasing a new album in 2020, the waiting was the hardest part. Most of us couldn’t wait to hear the music Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, and Emily Strayer were going to share with us […]
Too Slim has hands of stone. Tim Langford’s alter ego hits the strings like a steel-drivin’ man, pounding away relentlessly. Slim is an unusual amalgam, a creature clad in cowboy attire, assembled in Seattle, based in Nashville, playing Mississippi, Texas, […]
In 2019, Joshua Ray Walker opened his debut album with the haunting “Canyon,” a track that brought him admiration from fellow musicians like Colter Wall and American Aquarium’s BJ Barham, and one that set him apart from his younger peers […]
With his new album, Co-starring, Ray Wylie Hubbard surrounds himself with stellar musicians and guest singers, balancing mainstream sounds and approaches with his trademark swagger. In this way, Co-starring may well attract new listeners for the 73-year-old singer-songwriter while preserving, […]
Halfway through Margo Price’s new album, the soul burner “Hey Child” floats ethereally along the spiraling background vocals of the Nashville Friends Gospel Choir (Gale Mayes, Samson White, Angela Primm), layered over Matt Sweeney’s crystalline lead runs and the gospel […]
