It’s that time of the season again. Baseball and flowers blooming, fresh cut lawns and morning dew, new albums being released and music festival travel plans being made. Here in the beautiful Lower Hudson Valley it’s an eighty degree day […]
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If you thought my first column this year focusing on upcoming notable roots music releases was packed with good stuff, you will be even more thrilled with what’s in store in the next few weeks. From Rhiannon Giddens’ and Otis […]
Sometimes a look at the past makes way for the future. From 2010, a review of two albums I think were way better than most people thought. Pieta Brown stepped out of the Red House last year with a fairly […]
This past Sunday, I took the train and then a subway to the Upper West Side, walked up and down Broadway picking at piles of books sold by street vendors for a mere dollar or two, and found shade in […]
Iris DeMent and Pieta Brown at Lizotte’s, Newcastle NSW, Australia on 23 May 2015.
As usual, the holiday season has delivered a blizzard of important new releases and reissues from major acts, leaving me little time to cover albums by the lesser-known artists who might someday be major acts themselves. Here’s a brief look […]
In 2013, Jason Isbell’s Southeastern was so stunningly fantastic, that it was impossible not to declare it as my favorite record of the year, even as Brandy Clark’s 12 Stories, Ashley Monroe’s Like a Rose, and Holly Williams’ The Highway all tied for a […]
The first thing you notice is the sound. Low rumbling guitar chords, sighing violin or viola, a pulsating, pounding drum beat. Pieta Brown, in partnership with guitarist Bo Ramsey, knows how to make records that breathe with emotional resonance. Then […]
The eldest of singer-songwriter Greg Brown’s three daughters, Pieta Brown divided her youth between her father’s bare-bones Iowa farmhouse and her physician mother’s home in Birmingham, Alabama. Which is to say that she comes by her easy blend of rustic […]
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