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Music Review: Randy Sharp, Jack Wesley Routh, Sharon Bays and Maia Sharp –...
Dreams of the San Joaquin tells the stories of the immigrants from all over the world who came to the San Joaquin Valley, an area of around 250 miles stretching from Sierra Nevada to the California...
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Music Review: Indie Round-Up – Jacob Blazer, Charlie Parr, MSB Family Band
Jacob Blazer, I Am Jacob Coming off a jam-band pedigree, Jacob Blazer heads in a contrasting, minimalist direction with his new EP. Backed by his band The Good People he’s stripped everything down,...
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Music Review: Dustin Welch – Tijuana Bible
Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Dustin Welch has returned with his second album Tijuana Bible. It may seem like an odd title but it fits much of the album’s content well. A Tijuana Bible...
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TV Review: DC Cupcakes: County Fair
Critical ethics require that I declare my bias before proceeding. I am a Washington native who has walked by the block-long lines at Georgetown Cupcakes and, on more than one occasion, directed...
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Music Review: Gurf Morlix, Finds the Present Tense
Gurf Morlix sings in a tone somehow both affectless and mournful, as if a shadow of death had already crept in and half-zombified his emotions. Part of the pleasure in his new album, his first of...
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Music Review: Indie Round-Up – Kree Woods, Craig Jackson Band, Go Jane Go
Kree Woods, Talking Underwater Kree Woods is one of those rare pop singer-songwriters who have all the puzzle pieces: vocal chops, songwriting chops, and the vision to craft an album that sounds great....
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Music Review: Marshall Chapman –“Blaze Of Glory”
Marshall Chapman is now over 40 years into her stellar music career and she has become more prolific with the passage of time. During the past three years she has had a book published (They Came to...
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Music Review: Townes Van Zandt –“High, Low and In Between” and “The Late...
The preservationists at Omnivore Recordings have reissued two classic early ’70s albums by Townes Van Zandt, prince of the songwriting art, in nicely remastered editions on CD and vinyl. These...
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Music Review: Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses) – “The Low Highway”
It’s his 15th studio album, yet after all those years (and miles), Steve Earle is still angry, still snarling and spitting out slurred words that articulate the despair and hopelessness that is the...
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Music Review: Patty Griffin –“American Kid”
Patty Griffin’s musical career has been a slow and steady climb. Now widely acclaimed as a songwriter, she’s risen from humble beginnings as a singing waitress to win the Americana Music Association’s...
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Music Review: Willie Nile –‘American Ride’
The road trip has taken on almost iconic status in American pop culture. From Jack Kerouac’s On The Road to quasi-philosophical works like Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, the road trip has...
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Interview: Americana Duo The Easy Leaves
If you heard Sonoma County, California duo The Easy Leaves, would you think that it was a contemporary band or a historical one? Yes, this is a trick question, but it speaks volumes that songwriters...
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Music Review: Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott –‘Memories and Moments’
Time passes quickly. Americana artists Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott first came together back in the year 2000 for the album Real Time. They next surfaced together for a series of concerts in 2005 and...
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Music Review: Wild Ponies –‘Things That Used to Shine’
Telisha Williams announces twin themes of vulnerability and rebellious power at the very start of the first song, the anxious “Make You Mine,” on the album she and Doug Williams have just put out under...
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Music Review: P.J. Pacifico –‘Overlooking the Obvious’
The thing I have admired most about singer-songwriter P.J. Pacifico’s earlier albums is what I perceive as the emotional honesty of his music. Whether he is really sincere, I have no way of knowing....
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Music Review: Heidi Howe –‘Be Good’
With a voice that honors a heritage of Tennessee twang, singer/songwriter Heidi Howe charms her way through a dozen melodious originals spiked with country angst and homey wisdom on her latest album,...
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Music Review: Will Kimbrough –‘Sideshow Love’
Although he’s perhaps better known as a sideman to such luminaries as Emmylou Harris, a collaborator with people like Todd Snider, and a songwriter the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Will Kimbrough has been a...
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Music Review: Roosevelt Dime –‘Full Head of Steam’
Full Head of Steam, the new album from Brooklyn-based folk/roots band Roosevelt Dime flavors its ‘just plain folks’ vibe with a heavy hand of New Orleans spice, heavy enough to get even casual...
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Music Review: Regina Carter –‘Southern Comfort’
When it comes to the violin, Regina Carter can do it all. Although certainly best known as a jazz violinist, Carter seems comfortable enough playing the classical repertoire when called upon. Witness...
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Music Review: Jimmer –‘The Would-Be Plans’
Jimmer (Podrasky) may not be a household name, and these days he is probably not the stuff teen dreams are made of either. But if you were a fan of the John Hughes Brat Pack films of the ‘80s, you have...
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