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 […]
Anna Tivel’s new album, Blue World, is instantly … different. The first notes on the album are a discordant chord (created, according to Tivel’s liner notes, by striking a screwdriver against a piano key). Tivel, winner of No Depression’s Singer-Songwriter […]
On 2016’s Scofflaw, Clint Morgan dove into the ethos of the American outlaw, using a savvy mix of self-penned numbers and non-originals to go beneath the myths and legends of figures from Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, and Clyde Barrow […]
Andrew Bryant has been grappling with his spirituality and identity across his solo albums from the beginning, but this time feels different. Aside from coming out of a global pandemic, Bryant also recently hit one year of sobriety, a journey […]
Saluda, North Carolina, is a town that outsiders would believe only belongs to distant history, yet it’s very much alive and well. With postcard-worthy mountains on one side of the downtown area and still-active train tracks on the other, it […]
There is beauty in cynicism. T. Hardy Morris knows this. His latest record, The Digital Age of Rome, takes a dark, gritty look at a society on the brink of collapse due to an overload of technology and performative living […]
Nothing is as simple as it first appears in the engaging music of Faye Webster. On her terrific fourth album, I Know I’m Funny haha, the charming Atlanta native spins time-tested tales of romantic longing, disappointment, and occasionally satisfaction, setting […]
For his latest release, Nashville-based musician JP Harris eschews the honky-tonk stylings found on his work with the Tough Choices, like 2014’s Home is Where the Hurt Is and 2018’s Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing. On Don’t You Marry No […]
Dana Sipos’ The Astral Plane is a mesmerizing jewel of an album, an opal with ever-shifting facets, no matter which way you turn it. If one had to classify the album, folk would probably do, but in reality Sipos and […]
The past is a place fraught with pain, idealism, and unreliable recollections. The experience of revisiting your adolescent diaries proves this, often making you question how well you knew yourself, your desires, and your innermost thoughts. This is an exercise […]
