One of the more unfortunate limitations of the word “Americana” is that it could give someone the impression that the genre’s music should be restricted to the Lower 48. That’s nonsense, of course. Artists like Kasey Chambers and Paul Kelly produce […]
The Innocence Mission is one of the world’s most aptly named bands. The gossamered folk-pop of their latest album, the ninth in a nearly two-decade career, evokes the commingling of childhood and adulthood. Karen Peris’ lyrics are disarmingly simple; on […]
An album of timeworn standards was probably inevitable eventually for the Innocence Mission, given that singer Karen Peris distinctive imprint of a voice and husband Don Peris talent for guitar-textured moodscapes makes the band ideally suited for interpretive excursions. Think […]
Befriended is the Innocence Mission’s seventh full-length album in its 17-year career, and probably its best. It’s marked by slow, deliberate cadences delivered by gently strummed acoustic guitars, lightly plunked piano keys, and waves of tremolo that shimmer like summer […]
When I was a kid, growing up in deepest South Texas, our family used to make an annual wintertime pilgrimage to Colorado to go skiing. My mental kinescope reel of those trips always renders them in stark black-and-white, a series […]
