In their first duo project, Simple Motion, singer-songwriters Eric Brace and Thomm Jutz suggest responses to inevitable change. That might mean hopping a train or a ship with a certain destination, or one might “Ramble” — stepping outside, “one foot […]
Over the past 20 years, Blackberry Smoke has earned a reputation as a hard-driving, hard-working Southern rock band. Their new album, the Dave Cobb-produced Be Right Here, confirms the band’s place in the rock pantheon with its combination of propulsive […]
Musically speaking, Gaby Moreno is a difficult artist to categorize. From folk to blues and Latin and baroque pop, she does a little bit of everything. These elements are expectedly in play on her new LP, Dusk. But the record […]
Tinsley Ellis has finally come unplugged. It took 21 albums to do it, but on Naked Truth the Atlanta-based bluesman has forsaken his Stevie Ray Vaughan amp settings for an acoustic gathering of originals and a sampling of a couple […]
The state motto of Missy Raines’ home state of West Virginia is “Montani semper liberi” — a Latin phrase that translates to “Mountaineers are always free.” The dynamic reach of Raines’ new bluegrass masterwork, Highlander, is an exhibition of such […]
If you don’t like the Steel Wheels track you’re listening to, just wait a few minutes. Shapeshifting seems to be a hobby of this Virginia-based group that started life as an acoustic stringband, adding instruments and members along the way […]
There are certain states that are immediately associated with old-time music: North Carolina. Tennessee. West Virginia. Maryland? Well, maybe not yet. But on their new album, Salt Box, Charm City Junction aims to put Baltimore on the old-time map. A […]
You don’t get many chances to make a first impression. One, in fact. Brittany Guerin, who performs under the name Britti, understands that and is making the most of her opportunity on her debut LP Hello, I’m Britti. The New […]
Troubled souls who need an ally on the rocky road of life may find a kindred spirit in Iowa’s William Elliott Whitmore. Continuing to dispense hard wisdom more than two decades after his debut, this plainspoken country-folk troubadour ponders existential […]
Though it must have been a brutally sad goodbye when Sarah Jarosz left her longtime home of New York City in 2020, her new city suits her. Polaroid Lovers, the seventh studio album from the prolific songwriter with a voice […]
