Let’s get this out of the way first: Dolly Parton is no rock singer. Her vocal register lacks the depth and range to reach down into her gut for snarling growls or to modulate into a ringing falsetto. She sings […]
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With World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music, Jeff Tweedy completes a trilogy of meditative books that offer windows into his life, his songwriting, and, now, his deeply personal take on […]
On her previous two albums, Suzy Bogguss wrapped her warm, crystalline, and sometimes hard-edged vocals around familiar American folk and pop songs ( 2011’s American Folk Songbook) and the songs of Merle Haggard (2014’s Lucky). On her new album, Prayin’ […]
Jessi Colter has always stood on the edge. She and her late husband Waylon Jennings, along with Willie Nelson and Tompall Glaser, carried country music in new directions in 1976 with the album Wanted! The Outlaws, the first country album […]
Just over a decade ago, in 2011, Bob Dylan remarked: “Everybody knows by now that there’s a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I’m encouraging anybody who’s ever met me, heard me […]
It’s been eight years since Alice Gerrard’s Grammy-nominated 2015 album Follow the Music, so it’s a treat to have a new project, Sun to Sun, from her. For the past 60 years, songwriter/singer/multi-instrumentalist Gerrard has been passing along and preserving […]
Ken Irwin was born a ramblin’ man, searching out the music where its notes filled the air at old-time gatherings and festivals. In the early 1970s, he and his partner Marian Leighton staked out a claim on picnic tables at […]
According to at least one former music magazine editor’s recent collection of interviews and public conversations, rock and roll is the province of aging white men. Jann Wenner even titles his collection The Masters, as if the seven artists on […]
Four years after their acclaimed Breakdown on 20th Ave. South, Buddy and Julie Miller return with a gem of an album. To listen to this album is to be “in the throes” of a compelling attraction to intimately delivered songs […]
When John Prine died on April 7, 2020, he left behind a sumptuous banquet of lyrically ingenious songs that captured the vagaries of the lives of individuals whom society had consigned to its margins. Prine was better than any other […]
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