How many times can you capture lightning in a bottle? Rock god Robert Plant and bluegrass legend Alison Krauss did it once, with their 2007 collaboration Raising Sand. It was a smash hit, winning six Grammys (including Record and Album […]
Paying proper tribute to a musician like Neal Casal, whose career spanned nearly 30 years and saw him work with everyone from The Cardinals to Hard Working Americans to The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, takes chutzpah and careful planning. Casal took […]
The banner on Phoebe Hunt’s website reads, “Mystical Indie Folk – Inner Soul Exploration,” which is accurate in one sense, but misleading in others. There’s definitely a spiritual aspect to her story. Her parents met at a yoga ashram in […]
There may be no better match in contemporary music than the “Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele,” Jake Shimabukuro, and the never-waste-a-note guitarist Billy Strings, one of the “Friends” on Shimabukuro’s new album, Jake & Friends. Their song, “Smokin’ Strings,” opens […]
One of the things we have grown to love about Courtney Barnett’s songwriting is the way it weaves intricate trains of thought that mimic our own insecurities and grievances with the world. But her latest, Things Take Time, Take Time, […]
It’s all the Doc Watson a fan could dream of, a head-busting collection of Doc’s music featuring collabs with everybody who is anybody in roots music, including James Cotton, Alison Krauss, Ricky Skaggs, Flatt and Scruggs, and Bill Monroe. Merle […]
As one of her era’s most popular and gifted artists, Joni Mitchell should have been able to rest on her laurels a long time ago. Yet, in recent years, the press has often maligned and caricatured her as little more […]
Whether as one half of House and Land alongside Sarah Louise Henson, working with Appalachian old-time revivalists Black Twig Pickers, or on her various solo albums, multi-instrumentalist Sally Anne Morgan suffuses the tenets of musical traditionalism with her own spin. […]
“It’s a quarter to trouble and we’re halfway to hell,” guitarist/vocalist Martin Abrahamsson announces on the title cut of the Kokomo Kings’ latest, A Drive-By Love Affair. It’s a fitting introduction to the groovy, hellbilly-bent offerings the Swedish-Danish quartet has […]
There’s a lot out there that alienates and isolates people. Between a toxic political discourse, the (also toxic) social media bubble, and the COVID-19 pandemic, disconnection and apathy can become appealing options. Well, Curtis Harding is here to tell you […]
