Assuming you are old enough, you only need to listen to the first few bars on Freedy Johnston’s new album, Back on the Road to You, to be carried back to the late 1970s and the light pop of adult-oriented […]
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You are not altogether sure what you are listening to when you fire up Father John Misty’s new album, Chloë and the Next 20th Century: Apart from his mellifluous voice, which runs throughout, the tracks are all so very different. […]
Anyone who has ever listened to a classical Indian raga knows the feeling: A little way into the performance you stop listening to the individual performers and get swept up into a dreamy musical trance. The same trippy effect can […]
There is a certain style of male voice that just oozes angst. Think Bruce Springsteen, Chris Rea, Thom Yorke. The songs are great — but, oh, the inner pain, the questioning pain! Judging from his new album, Hold Fast, Scottish […]
The Foreign Landers is a pretty good name for the married roots duo of David Benedict and Tabitha Agnew. He is from South Carolina; she from Northern Ireland. So, music from foreign lands is to be expected on their new […]
The Ladles new album — Springville Sessions — is “nice.” I don’t mean to damn it with faint praise by using such a mealy-mouthed term, but that is the word that kept entering my mind as I listened. There is nothing […]
Dawn Landes’ new album, Row, is to a certain extent a victim of the coronavirus. The soundtrack to a musical, it has been released without the show being staged. It was due to be premiered in summer at the Williamstown […]
The most entertaining track (of many) on Wood & Wire’s excellent new album, No Matter Where It Goes From Here, comes at the end. “Clamp’s Chute” is a nine-minute long live instrumental that is reminiscent of the kind of thing […]
Sometimes an album is more than the sum of its parts, providing a little something extra on top of a good listen. So it is with Jake Blount’s new release, Spider Tales, a collection of black American roots music whose […]
There is a lot of Nashville in Call the Captain, the new album from Seattle-based band Western Centuries — the collaborative songwriting group of Cahalen Morrison, Ethan Lawton, and Jim Miller. Not surprising, perhaps, as it was produced by Nashville […]
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