With their latest album, Lines in the Levee, Asheville, North Carolina-based Town Mountain takes time to look back at what they have lived through and to examine the legacy they will leave. The tracks offer glimpses into the tensions between […]
There’s plenty abloom in this week’s new releases. David Crosby is back with a strong solo(ish) record, and Town Mountain is staking its claim as a new kind of bluegrass band. We’ve got a postcard from outlaw country from Whitey […]
The more I listened to Town Mountain’s release New Freedom Blues for this review, the more I was dragged back to the 1970s and car journeys across America listening to Old & In The Way. That is no bad thing – for me, for […]
With so much happening in the festival and concert world of late, I’m finally playing catch-up on some intriguing new releases that might otherwise get lost in the big-name autumn shuffle. As the title of this week’s column indicates, all […]
At the end of AmericanaFest Margo Price tweeted and Instagramed, “It was one helluva week.” I will go further: it was one hell of a year. Americana got its own Billboard chart, Americana for the first time outsold country, a firmly established […]
I can no longer call the Nelsonville Music Festival the best kept secret in Southeast Ohio. While it remains modest in size — and way more comfortable and friendly than some larger festivals — music aficionados have discovered this laid back, musically […]
With so many good new albums coming out from artists who are of interest to the ND-reading world, I thought I’d dedicate another column to new albums of note and the artists who make them. I’ll kick it off this […]
