Having first garnered attention with Azure Ray and then her 2005 solo debut 11:11, Maria Taylor reaches full bloom on Lynn Teeter Flower, though it’s a gracefully understated beauty. Foremost is Taylor’s innate sense for beguiling melodies, which she weaves […]
Vince Gill’s latest release, These Days, is an ambitious and auspicious behemoth of a project — 43 songs on four discs surveying four stylistic corners of his broad musical persona. As such, it was quite fitting that his 2006 tour […]
Occasionally my wife Lisa helps me update the logs I keep of all the music that arrives in the mail day after day, sometimes piling up until it’s hard to find a clear pathway to my desk. This weekend she […]
A six-song postscript to their recent long-player Four Thieves Gone, this EP shows only the softer side of the fast-rising North Carolina acoustic trio, but to splendid effect. While in concert the Avetts catch fire largely on the spark of […]
These things tend to be just a bad idea — bands two or three decades removed from their prime trying to recapture what made them successful back in the day. Often such reunions are not much more than dressed-up moneygrabs, […]
In the beginning, for aspiring young singer-songwriters, it’s generally all about writing a few tunes, rehearsing them with a band, getting some gigs, booking some studio time…and, if you’re lucky, there’s a record deal, followed by a long stretch of […]
A couple of you dropped us a line to protest last issue’s announcement in this space that we were dropping the ND Top 40 retail sales chart. Ivan Sohrakoff of Woodland, California, suggested we replace it with a “recommended listening” […]
As half of husband-wife duo the Innocence Mission, guitarist Don Peris provides a sonic signature as important to the bands sound as his partners exquisite voice, if less front-and-center. On his second solo outing, Peris wisely goes the instrumental route […]
There wasnt really a plan here just a few days of hanging out at Charlie Sextons home studio shortly after he and Shannon McNally had toured together which explains the hodgepodge of the material on this seven-song EP: two Sexton/Tonio […]
A seemingly endless procession of people snaked out the jammed entryway to Mayes Pit auditorium, streaming down the corridor of Hayes Hall, out the exit, down the sidewalk, and around the corner of the building. If there were a couple […]
