Personal and professional partners Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have been performing minimal, slowed down, dreamy lonesome country folk for some three decades now. The main thing that’s changed since Welch’s string of classic albums — Revival (1995) through The […]
On her new album Baptized by the Blaze, India Ramey is here to kick ass, play honky-tonk, and chew bubblegum — and she’s all out of gum. She’s also out of Klonopin; this album details Ramey’s life-affirming experience of working […]
Jontavious Willis doesn’t just play the blues, he inhabits that space so thoroughly that there’s not much room for anybody else. The Greenville, Georgia, native got a career jumpstart in 2015 at the age of 19 when Taj Mahal invited […]
As she did on her 2021 debut album, Reckless (ND review), and on last year’s Psychopath (ND review), Morgan Wade showcases a vocal power that combines the clarity and aching vulnerability of Patty Loveless and the vibrant, soaring phrasing of […]
Pony Bradshaw does more than share stories with his music. Rather, he embodies an entire cosmology of figures from his adopted home of North Georgia. Bradshaw’s latest album, Thus Spoke the Fool, concludes the trilogy he embarked upon with Calico […]
It’s been a long, tumultuous seven years since Ben Sollee released his 2017 chamber-bluegrass self-titled album, Ben Sollee & the Kentucky Native. Now the father of three, Sollee kept himself busy with soundtrack scores (LAND from director Robin Wright and […]
It’s been eight years since Blind Pilot released their last album, 2016’s And Then Like Lions. That long interval was the result of a period of personal and musical upheaval for frontman and primary songwriter Israel Nebeker, who experienced a […]
When Ray LaMontagne debuted two decades ago, his weathered tenor sounded otherworldly. Its power seemed unlikely from such a shy, subdued performer. Now entrenched in middle age, the New England singer-songwriter’s instrument is no less sonorous or wondrous. He has […]
Without a doubt, the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys have a sense of who they are. While recording their new album, Wanderers Like Me, they aimed for “something more ‘us’ than ever before,” the band declared in their album announcement. To do […]
There’s an emotional yearning in Amanda Anne Platt’s crystalline voice, whether it’s for a person, a place, or a time. Her vocals come across with drenching clarity and vibrance, leaving the listener with their own desire to look back, to […]
