“It’s a new thing we’re trying out, kind of a grassroots campaign to get out on the road and travel where the opportunities take us,” Elisabeth Von Trapp told me at dinner tonight. Yes, she’s one of THOSE Von Trapps, […]
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Kate Campbell often writes songs that read like short stories, and on Save The Day she acknowledges in the liner notes the literary inspirations for this new collection of story-songs, listing Frederic Buechner, Langston Hughes, Harper Lee and others. Where […]
The second full-length disc from Memphis native, former Nashville resident, and current South Carolinian Nick Pagliari finds him at a stylistic crossroads between tightly orchestrated pop and a more relaxed alt-country sound. Recorded in Memphis, the album makes it obvious […]
On their second album, South Carolina’s American Gun sift Uncle Tupelo, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen through a filter of southern gothic storytelling and rock ‘n’ roll energy, coming out with a batch of pure, stripped-down twang ‘n’ roll. Frontmen […]
The regal, elegant voice of Fayssoux McLean drips with a graceful ease that comes only with experience. In her case, that includes singing with Emmylou Harris for many years and a first marriage to the Seldom Scenes John Starling. Somehow […]
The sophomore disc from South Carolina musician Chris Smith (a.k.a. Sunshone Still) may be a bit high-concept, but it’s also a fascinating, cinematic musical exercise inspired by the true story of Kit Carson and the Manifest Destiny years of the […]
Music and life has been all about family for Johnny Irion the past few years, from a 2005 duo album with his wife Sarah Lee Guthrie, tours with her father Arlo. Ex Tempore puts his solo career back in the […]
Over the past decade, weathered singer and guitarist Jack Williams has issued a handful of great albums that combine his skilled fingerpicking with a musical style that’s equal parts folk storytelling and Tin Pan Alley songcraft, delivered with the impassioned […]
Recording in Nashville and using outside co-writers for the first time, Hootie & the Blowfish have shaken up their established formula with excellent results. The Killing Stone, written with Matraca Berg, is the high-water mark, with a ripped-from-scripture chorus and […]
In the 1980s, John Brannen was a Springsteen-esque rocker; his song “Desolation Angel” was even an MTV Hip Clip. In the ’90s he re-emerged as a country singer and Nashville songwriter; a 1993 tour for his self-titled Polygram album was […]
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