Grace Potter has always been a free spirit. It’s the throughline in her career, from the rootsy rock of her mid-2000s group Grace Potter and the Nocturnals to her present-day solo turn. That sensibility is what propels her new LP, […]
Anyone with more than a passing interest in modern roots music will be familiar with Rhiannon Giddens. For those who aren’t, the fact that she numbers among only four artists to have performed at both the Newport Folk Festival and […]
For Taylor Ashton, who spent much of his teens and early 20s touring Canada before moving to Brooklyn and busking there in 2015, home is on the road. His newest offering, Stranger to the Feeling, was recorded over the course […]
“I set out to make a folky, small lo-fi rock ’n’ roll record,” Gregory Alan Isakov says in a press release of his approach to Appaloosa Bones, his sixth studio album. That the result is an atmospheric soundscape layered like […]
Make no mistake: Joe Firstman is here to proselytize. Firstman, the frontman and principal songwriter for Cordovas, asks an earnest question in “Fallen Angels of Rock ’n’ Roll,” the opening track of the band’s latest album, The Rose of Aces: […]
Black Keys guitarist-vocalist Dan Auerbach is a blues curator. But unlike collectors and disseminators of obscure folk and blues like the Lomaxes, who recorded artists in their native habitats, Auerbach summoned his finds to Nashville to record with him for […]
With Old Cane Back Rocker, his first full-length studio album since 2016, Darrell Scott and the Darrell Scott String Band showcase what happens when talented vocalists, instrumentalists, and songwriters capitalize on the dynamics they can create together. The first track, […]
After traipsing all over the countryside hanging around out-of-the-way juke joints and knocking on doors trying to run down obscure local or regional performers and record them, most field recording collectors want to share their findings with the general public. […]
As with each of her previous three albums, Beth Bombara’s distinct vocals and perceptive lyrics on It All Goes Up leave a deep impression. But where It All Goes Up differs is in the sense of space she creates with […]
Much as they did with the music of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard on Bakersfield 10 years ago, country superstar Vince Gill and pedal steel master Paul Franklin now honor Ray Price on Sweet Memories: The Music of Ray Price […]
