On City of Gold, the second album from Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway, wanderlust is a central theme, as are its consequences, both positive and negative. Tuttle’s stellar band, Golden Highway (comprised of fiddler Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, mandolinist Dominick Leslie, banjoist […]
In naming their new album Welcome, Nashville trio The Arcadian Wild offers a fair summation of the kindness and openness of their songs. But as they beckon with beautiful songs, they’re serving up some hard truths, too. On album opener […]
Rooted in acoustic genres noted for connective storytelling and subversive turns of phrase, Jessye DeSilva is a singer-songwriter whose strong vocal work makes good use of these angles to craft important and timely compositions about issues related to identity and […]
Like his father, Dickey Betts, Duane Betts dwells in the spaces between the notes, traversing the frets of his guitar to produce ringing arpeggios of sound and crystalline lead runs that echo long after he caresses each note. He’s honed […]
Lukas Nelson has decided to give the people what they want. In the wake of the pandemic, as live music trickled back, he noticed his fans were itching to hear the kind of upbeat, good-time tunes they could sing along […]
A legion of Chicago blues ghosts are back for a resurrection of their sounds by a modern-day bluesologist. It may not be their material showcased here, but it feels so authentic you keep thinking that perhaps it’s just obscure cuts […]
It’s a cliché, but there’s no other way to put it: Even back on his 2017 debut, released when he was 22, Colter Wall sounded like an old soul. A lot of it has to do with his voice: His […]
Shinyribs looks like it’d be a band as much fun to be in as it is to listen to. If you were the frontman, you’d get to wear a hooded cape that not only glows in the dark but flashes […]
Lots of starry-eyed dreamers over the years have hoped that music would be their path to fame and fortune. But heading into the fifth decade of his career, Dale Watson has learned better. Thus the title of his latest album, […]
To hear Miles Miller tell the story behind his single “A Feeling Called Lonesome” is, on the surface, to hear a burgeoning songwriter describe why his song about love lost required a full decade to complete. Despite feeling the “aftermath […]
