On the whole, the best music this year told the raw truth — whether it was Hayes Carll’s paean to love and loss or Robbie Fulks’ exploration of his Carolina and Virginia roots. Shovels & Rope turned toward autobiography with […]
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In late January 2015, Rosanne Cash, the Comet Bluegrass All-Stars (Ed Cunningham, Jeff Roberts, Missy Werner, Harold Kennedy, John Cole, Artie Werner), Dom Flemons, Joe Henry, Aoife O’Donovan, and Over the Rhine joined forces with the Cincinnati Pop Orchestra, under […]
Let’s see now, how long has it been since alt-country was claiming Joe Henry as one of its next great things? Would you believe a full decade ago, when he was hooking up with the Jayhawks on Short Man’s Room […]
By the company you keep. If that’s how we’re judged, consider the lineup on Joe Henry’s latest, Scar. Me’shell Ndegeocello on bass, Marc Ribot on guitar, Brian Blade on drums, Brad Mehldau on piano. Each a monster. Each a bandleader […]
Once upon a time, in what seems now like a land far, far away, there was this magical, wonderful thing called AM Top 40 radio. True Top 40 radio, though its FM version persisted well into the ’80s, saw its […]
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