Troubled souls who need an ally on the rocky road of life may find a kindred spirit in Iowa’s William Elliott Whitmore. Continuing to dispense hard wisdom more than two decades after his debut, this plainspoken country-folk troubadour ponders existential […]
William Elliott Whitmore’s eighth long-player, I’m With You, is his first album of original material since 2015’s Radium Death. For fans hungry for more of the songsmith’s sparse acoustic fare, I’m With You is a welcome offering of rootsy and […]
William Elliott Whitmore loves songs about floods. This Iowa native tells tales of rivers that escape their banks, ruining entire crops and taking houses with them. Going as far back as 2006, on tunes like “Red Buds” and “Lee County […]
This week, we’re hitting the halfway mark in voting for our annual year-end readers poll. (You can vote through Dec. 30 here.) I’ve been running this poll for seven years now and have always marveled at the diversity of sound and […]
Over three albums, William Elliott Whitmore has consistently delivered music with a rare authenticity and authority, in the process garnering comparisons to the likes of Johnny Cash, Hank Williams and Robert Johnson. Like his predecessors, Whitmore has the heart of […]
