Astute instrumental breaks, good production, and powerful pipes can always impress, but a good band isn’t going to go very far if they don’t have great songwriting. Indeed, bar-raising songwriting is what unites all our spotlighted releases this week – […]
A more fitting title than Radiant does not exist for the new record from Wild Ponies. A shimmering country beauty, the music on the album seems to glow. Whether singing about the troubled state of the world, a small town mom […]
Wild Ponies was performing a cover of the Patti Smith version of “Gloria” at a benefit show when guitarist and vocalist Doug Williams was struck by the line “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine.” “It just made me […]
