If I had to answer the question of who my favorite songwriter is today, I would have to answer with Aaron Lee Tasjan. The East Nashville-based songwriter has burrowed his way deep into my heart with his witty lyrics and even more […]
If I had to answer the question of who my favorite songwriter is today, I would have to answer with Aaron Lee Tasjan. The East Nashville-based songwriter has burrowed his way deep into my heart with his witty lyrics and even more […]
Mark Erelli’s new solo album For a Song releases out April 8, and it feels like the best of Paul Simon or Jackson Browne’s work. Erelli tells stories that are immediately relatable and reflective of the small moments in our lives. It is his […]
The first time I heard Margo Price’s voice I fell in love. There was something so exciting about what this gal was doing and the power with which she delivered it. There is a vigorous attitude and a grit in her […]
Providence, RI based singer-songwriter Ian Fitzgerald debuts his new song “When All Else Fails” at the Burren in Somerville, MA. Joining him onstage is an all-star cast of Providence musicians: songwriter John Faraone (drums), Ollie Rhys Williams of Smith&Weeden (bass) […]
Last year Mandolin Orange‘s Such Jubilee wound up being the record I spun most from that year. Literally, the next most-spun record in my collection on received about 75 percent of the airtime I spent listening to the interweaving string arrangements and perfect harmonies […]
Classic Country music comes from….Providence, Rhode Island? Well, ladies and gents, in this case that is the god’s honest truth. Cowboy & Lady (the duo of Tyler-James Kelly and Jess Powers) have been engraining themselves into the local music community over the […]
Above the Prairie, the latest album from The Pines, from Minneapolis, feels like a call and response between the universe and our little lives here on Earth. It is exploratory both in the lyrical and musical sense, and with each listen […]
Laney Jones manages to take a traditional folk and bluegrass instrument and create unique and mindblowingly creative music with it. Its not quite folk, it has hints of pop perhaps, and it rocks like no other. She certainly doesn’t shy away […]
Jonah Tolchin is the type of artist who embodies a soul and spirit to which many aspire. Some try to fake it, few ever truly achieve it. His last release, Clover Lane, was met with much acclaim, and the songwriter has been hitting the […]
Smooth Hound Smith has been on my radar since the first licks of their debut daytrotter session. Zack Smith (guitar/vocals/foot drums/harmonicas/banjo) and Caitlin Doyle (vocals/percussion) make up this fantastic duo from Nashville. I got a chance to talk with Zack about their […]