It’s not hyperbole to call Lovers Leap a roots music supergroup. After all, the four-piece includes bassist Shelby Means (ex-Delta Mae), clawhammer banjo picker Mary Lucey (ex-Biscuit Burners), guitarist Joel Timmons (Sol Driven Train), and innovative slide guitarist Billy Cardine […]
Albums feted for suiting troubled times tend to magnify darkness, be it though politicized takes on persistent issues or realistic portrayals of common folks’ day-to-day struggles. Progressive bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters offer an exception to that rule with Rise […]
Boston-born five-piece Mile Twelve’s music resides in the tradition-bound category of bluegrass, but that doesn’t keep its young members from addressing modern concerns on new album City on a Hill. The album bookends eight bluegrass originals with a pair of […]
Talented musicians have surrounded David Grier since childhood. His father, Lamar, performed with Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in the 1960s, and Roland White taught some of Grier’s earliest guitar lessons. His lengthy run as an influential flatpicking guitarist has […]
Since the 2015 release of Patty Griffin’s prior album, Servant of Love, much has changed for the singer on a personal level and for the society she reflects through her art. She’s now a breast cancer survivor, coming off a […]
Della Mae’s The Butcher Shoppe isn’t a collection of the album holdovers and live-in-studio re-recordings associated with most EPs. Instead, it’s a six-song roundup featuring unreleased favorites from the band’s live set as well as cover songs spotlighting some of […]
Singer, guitarist, and lyricist Adia Victoria’s words and music transcend genre classification and remind us of the variety of artists and mediums in Nashville, a city that’s a limiting label unto its swiftly gentrifying self. Becoming her own artist began […]
West Coast veterans Marley’s Ghost draw a lot of deserved comparisons to The Band. The resemblance comes less from sounding like any song or album by Arkansas traveler Levon Helm and his Canadian cohorts and more from a shared ability […]
The five young talents in Boston-based group The Lonely Heartstring Band tell stories with traditional bluegrass instrumentation and multipart harmonies. But that doesn’t make them creatively dependent on hardcore bluegrass norms, as heard on their folk-honoring yet forward-thinking new album […]
New Mexican is a music project with a focus on delivering a unique take on Americana. Essentially a solo effort from Matt Hoffman, New Mexican rides that razor’s edge between folk and country rock, echoing vintage Bruce Springsteen and Ryan […]
