Your head nods … suddenly you find yourself drifting into a sea of musicians, thousands … performers and bands marching forward and back in hotel guestroom hallways. Setting up in hotel room after hotel room from the dark of night […]
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Here’s a playlist of the new voices taking Alt Country and Americana to beautiful and meaningful places. With great songs, cool voices and real instruments played with feeling. All music released in the last couple of years. This will be […]
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 […]
A friend’s dad dies in his seventies. Another friend succumbs to cancer at the age of 37. Trump wins. Leonard Cohen passes away. The University of Washington Huskies lose their first game of the football season. I had jury duty […]
Americana Fest 2016 has ended. Once again, it was six nights and five days when an international community gathered around its common love and respect for a kind of music that is raw, honest, earnestly human, universal. We could break it […]
If you were to Weird Science the prototype for a technically perfect, ethereal female singer, you’d come up with someone like Mikaela Davis. Petite, young and blonde, she’s a harpist with a high, dreamy, limber voice who boasts an affinity for […]
This week our reviewers have taken a look at some releases that ring with authenticity. There’s Sara Watkins, shedding any remaining kid sister image with an album that’s all grown up and equal parts rock and reflection. Tommy Womack nails […]
I don’t know a huge amount about Sara Watkins. I’ve seen her live once, on the I’m With Her tour also featuring Aoife O’Donovan and Sarah Jarosz. I’ve got one of her albums (two now). I know she was something […]
It’s hard to believe that Sara Watkins is 35 years old; she seems perennially the kid-sister violin prodigy and secret-weapon vocalist who came of age in Nickel Creek. Yet Young in All the Wrong Ways (out July 1 on New West) […]
Listening to Sara Watkins make music just puts a room in a good mood. A rainy Tuesday night in the trendy corner of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, tucked away at the dead end of 9th Street and Wythe Avenue, Watkins’ Rough Trade NYC show […]
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