Amos Lee has been a remarkably busy man as of late. In the last two years, he’s released three full-length studio albums. He began the streak with 2022’s Dreamland (ND review) and followed it up with two tribute albums to […]
If Joni Mitchell, Aimee Mann, and Sharon Van Etten’s voices wafted up into a cloud of lavender smoke, Skylar Gudasz would emerge from it in a poof, brilliant and gleaming. The golden-throated Southerner possesses that bewitching vocal quality that seems […]
X has never dabbled in fantasy. The Los Angeles punk icons have always been firmly planted in reality, singing about the highs and lows of life. Now, in a profoundly real decision, X is calling it a career after nearly […]
Los Lonely Boys merge their Texas rock sound with meaningful messages on their new album, Resurrection. You likely know the band for their hit debut single “Heaven,” which elevated them from the Texas rock n’ roll landscape into the mainstream […]
It’s been said that there’s no place like home. It nurtures and teaches us, often informing our direction in life. Sometimes, though, we have to leave to really understand not only the gravity of home, but who we are without […]
“I’m a rovin’ soul,” Joe Ely confesses on the haunted opening to “Drivin’ Man,” the number that opens and sets the thematic tone for his sparkling new album, Driven to Drive. Since bursting out of Texas in the ‘70s like […]
“I’ve been holding onto something / This all can’t be for nothing / We’re all made by these moments,” frontman Brandon Coleman belts with a Graceland gusto on “Moments,” the song that inspired the title to The Red Clay Strays’ […]
It’s a gathering of royalty, but you won’t find this bunch up on thrones. With juke joints as the dream team Memphis Royal Brothers’ palaces, stages are about as elevated as they get. But the music takes it higher, to […]
Like Marvin Gaye, Jerry Butler, Curtis Mayfield, and gospel singer James Cleveland, Zeshan B combines soaring vocals with swaying rhythms that inspire the soul and move the feet to action. On his third album O Say, Can You See? he […]
Yarn’s latest, Born, Blessed, Grateful & Alive, opens with grand, sweeping blues rock and an imperative: get off that screen and join the party. The music, the message to “Turn Off the News,” neither are all that radical, but that’s […]
