Sometimes you listen to new music and it just takes a while to sink in. It’s not always that you need time to assimilate complexity when it’s presented to you – deep lyrics, layered meanings and arrangements, for example. No, […]
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Aoife O’Donovan is Boston-raised and with Irish heritage. Her second album In The Magic Hour will be out January 22 2016 on Yep Roc Records. O’Donovan has been lead singer of the progressive string band Crooked Still, was a featured vocalist on “The Goat Rodeo Sessions,” the Grammy-winning […]
Acclaimed singer songwriter Patty Griffin has just released her ninth studio album Servant Of Love. Based in Austin Texas, Griffin the songwriter has been recognised through faithful covers of her songs by Emmylou Harris, The Dixie Chicks, Joan Baez and Bette Midler. Griffin the singer and performer has […]
With that voice, the hat and those looks, Sam Outlaw could be a straight-up mainline Big Country Star. He could be wowing the Nashville scene, starring at the Grand Ol’ Opry, working up to headlining that city’s Bridgestone Arena. He […]
It has taken me quite a while to fully explore Gretchen Peters’ February 2015 release Blackbirds (Scarlet Letter Records). But patience is a virtue they say, as this album has been well worth the wait. The artistry is impeccable. The songwriting draws […]
Bill Jackson has staked a claim as a fine singer and songwriter (the latter with brother Ross) with a well-honed and unashamedly Australian sensibility and focus. His 2015 release The Wayside Ballads Vol.1 is a ruddy mix of tales of colourful, historical characters, those […]
Canadian singer-songwriter Lindi Ortega released her fourth full-length album a few weeks back. It’s called Faded Gloryville (Grand Tour Records). It’s full of faded characters and lowly places – cheap motels, brothels and saloons replete with drinkers and broken souls who have seen better […]
Clara Baker is originally from Portland, Oregon. She grew up around music, singing with her mum in church, learning fiddle and guitar from her dad, and helping sell his instructional fiddle and flat-pick guitar books, the Fiddle America Workshop Series. The […]
St. Louis, Missouri band The Bottle Rockets have just released its twelfth album South Broadway Athletic Club (on October 2 via Bloodshot Records). The Bottle Rockets hit the scene in the 1990’s and its eponymous debut (1993) and follow-up, 1995’s The Brooklyn Side, have become landmark releases, […]
Where to start? Let me see. I hadn’t seen darling folk/traditional/Americana duo Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings live before last month. In Nashville during the Americana Music Festival 2016, I witnessed them perform twice, as well as a live radio […]
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