Like Elizabeth Cook, Sunny Sweeney launched her career more than a decade ago as a major-label country ingénue, before finding a more hospitable reception in Americana. Maybe she had a little too much edge and attitude at the time for […]
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With The Order of Time (out March 10 on Concord), Valerie June extends her vision and her voice. Or, her voices. She can still sound like something of a helium caricature, the Macy Gray of Americana, and some of her […]
Welcome a new generation of Texas troubadour, and not just because of the familiar surname. On the self-released The Hornet’s Nest (out February 24), Curtis McMurtry quickly distances himself from the “son of James, grandson of Larry” expectations, through the […]
With a name borrowed from Bob Dylan and a tuneful literacy channeling Elvis Costello, John Wesley Harding introduced himself almost two decades ago as a witty, British singer-songwriter of cheek and tuneful charm. Since then, he has earned considerable respect […]
The finest country vocalist of her generation. A veteran producer. A selection of material that has stood the test of time. What could go wrong? Hardly anything on Windy City (out February 17 on Capitol Records), the first solo album […]
With Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins (out February 10 on Yep Roc), Chuck Prophet has tuned his inner antenna to Top 40 and ‘60s psychedelia. The Nuggets garage-band anthology has imprinted itself within this music’s DNA. Having titled an […]
How can a band that is this powerful, this expansive and this enduring remain this little known? Maybe it’s the problem with the name—there are no Sadies in the Sadies, and no women at all. Maybe it’s the Canadian thing—the […]
The ninth album from Gurf Morlix, the ace Austin producer and guitarist, finds him digging deeper and seeing the light. On The Soul and the Heal (out February 3 on Rootball Records), the deep is dark. The light is love. […]
It opens with a clatter, flashes with epiphany and resolves itself into prayer. However the listener comes to terms with the sixth studio album by Tift Merritt, Stitch of the World (out January 27 on Yep Roc), it’s a song […]
No Texas honky-tonker could slip more easily into saloon singing than Delbert McClinton does on Prick of the Litter (out January 27 on Thirty Tigers). With arrangements built more on jazzy keyboards and saxophones than the usual guitar sting, the […]
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