“Get up early in the morning / stay up all night long / drive 500 miles / just to play a coupla songs / Ain’t no shortcuts, that’s what you do for the blues,” Christone “Kingfish” Ingram says on “That’s […]
Emily Duff rocks all night, delivering soulful songs that probe the depths of our emotions, the jagged edges of our relationships, the persistent ache of desire, and joy of being alive. Duff wraps her messages in tight three-minute songs that […]
Joshua Radin has been documenting his slow journey of personal healing for a few albums now. While Radin’s entire catalog — ever since his debut album, We Were Here, in 2006 — has always held a mellow sensitivity, his recent […]
You can’t help but feel happy for the guy. After decades of addiction, health problems, and financial struggles, David Crosby has recently enjoyed a late-life career renaissance that few this side of Leonard Cohen could ever dream of. He’s released […]
Mike Zito is a career resurrectionist. He pulled it off once before after he went off the rails, documenting his return to sobriety on 2013’s Gone to Texas. But even before then he had risen to fame with a Blues […]
Joseph Spence enjoyed himself immensely. His own improvising cracked him up, and his lyrical forgetfulness was also a source of amusement to him as well as to his listeners. Lines and often whole paragraphs would drop out of Spence’s renditions […]
Don’t be fooled by the folksiness early on in John R. Miller’s Depreciated. The album casually saunters towards a full existential breakdown that’ll leave you gasping for air. A native of the Shenandoah Valley, Miller channels nearly every strain of […]
What makes a song meaningful? Much can and has been said on such a topic, but perhaps the ability of an artist to create a sort of invitation for the listener is an ideal way to describe the resonance of […]
Charlie Worsham never wastes a note; his crisp leads move smoothly from jazz and blues to rockabilly and pop and country. The six songs on his new EP drive hard with joyous abandon (“For the Love”), but then they pull […]
It’s hard not to be a little bit jealous of Christopher Turpin and Stephanie Jean Turpin, also known as the zealously eclectic duo Ida Mae. On Click Click Domino, their endlessly engaging sophomore album, the spouses survey classic American styles […]
