When he was 6 years old, country singer Darius Rucker discovered his destiny. Rucker was lying on his living room floor listening to Al Green’s then-new album, I’m Still in Love with You, he recalls in his new memoir, […]
When he was 6 years old, country singer Darius Rucker discovered his destiny. Rucker was lying on his living room floor listening to Al Green’s then-new album, I’m Still in Love with You, he recalls in his new memoir, […]
The Mavericks just keep getting better. There’s an intimate, organic quality to their music that pulls listeners in immediately, allowing them to dwell in the luscious harmonies, the sumptuous instrumentation, and the ingenious songwriting of the band. Moon & Stars […]
If it hadn’t been for Gerde’s Folk City’s Johny Porco one day in 1969, Greg Brown might have headed home from his adventure in New York City, where he had gone to try to make it as a folk […]
There’s seemingly no end to the number of Beatles books out there. Readers can expect to travel endlessly down a long and winding road full of Beatles ephemera for more than eight days a week with recollections of their hangers-on, […]
Darin and Brooke Aldridge make beautiful music together. On their new album, Talk of the Town, the first couple of bluegrass — he’s a first-class mandolinist and guitarist, and she’s a four-time IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year — build […]
On her new album, Shadow, Lizz Wright creates a dazzling soundscape with her smooth, sultry vocals as she ranges from jazz and blues to folk and soul. Shadow contains five original songs as well as her interpretations of songs she […]
Somewhere between vinyl records and CDs, music lovers started collecting their favorites on a small, portable product that could hold 60-90 minutes of recorded music: the cassette tape. Although the technology of storing music on cassettes was available in the […]
Since 1939, The Blind Boys of Alabama have been riding up and down the gospel highway in the US, “wrecking houses” — channeling the Holy Ghost through their music and rousing congregations to leap, run up and down and dance […]
Kacey Musgraves excels at producing cinematic albums that track the vagaries of human existence in kaleidoscopic colors. On Deeper Well, her fifth album and the follow-up to her 2021 chart topper star-crossed (ND review), Musgraves produces another stunning masterpiece that […]
Since the start of his career in the 1950s and ’60s, Dion has surrounded himself with women — whether via musical odes like “Runaround Sue,” “Donna the Prima Donna,” and “Ruby Baby” or through collaborations with musicians like Ronnie Spector, […]