Kinky Friedman hasn’t exactly been gone the last 40 years — he’s been busy writing mystery novels, running for office in Texas, and, apparently, watching Matlock. But a call from his pal Willie Nelson brought him back to writing songs, […]
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This week’s releases offer a nice blend of the cutting edge and the foundations of roots music, and we can’t get enough of either one. On the cutting edge end of things, we’ve got new music from the Milk Carton […]
It’s officially summer, and the new releases are plenty hot. Lera Lynn, Jeffrey Foucault, and T. Hardy Morris break new ground with their new records, building on careers that started out promising and haven’t let us down one bit along […]
Music can take us outside our own head and into something else entirely. Lot of that going on in this week’s new releases, from Fantastic Negrito’s hard look into a not-so-rosy reality of America to Petal’s dispatches from the life […]
Especially in our corner of the music world, singer-songwriters can get really personal in their writing. They talk about their struggles, their hopes, their hurts, and their roads to recovery. Sometimes the subject matter is hard to listen to, and […]
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In my younger and more vulnerable years, back in Boston in October of 1989, I scored a right and left cross of The Waterboys and Bob Dylan. On a Sunday night in October, with the leaves turning on the Common and cold […]
Bobby Osborne, the 85-year-old singer and mandolinist best known for the bluegrass music he started playing with his brother a half-century ago, has a new record out this week called Original. (Full disclosure: the album was made with the help […]
If you take a moment to consider the breadth of music happening in the roots world these days, you’ll find that few artists have had as much to do with its evolution — and as much influence on as many […]
If you really think about it, it’s kind of amazing how much a musician can do with just some wood and some strings. Consider Ben Sollee’s cello, on which he strums and fiddles and saws and percusses. There’s Alejandro Escovedo’s […]
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