Emma Swift’s Resurrection in Gray and Blue Emma Swift’s new album, The Resurrection Game, unfolds like a series of letters written from the far edge of an emotional winter. It is a record of desolate beauty and delicately held hope, the sound of someone who has passed through collapse and found something luminous in what […]
Amanda Shires’ Nobody’s Girl: Standing in the Aftermath There are records that capture a fleeting moment, and then there are records that chart the hard path of rebuilding a life. Amanda Shires’ Nobody’s Girl, out now via ATO Records, belongs to the latter. Born from heartbreak and loss, it is a document of an artist […]
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Hunter Root: Turning Grief Into Grace on Crooked Home For Pennsylvania musician Hunter Root, the road to his new album Crooked Home—out October 17, 2025—runs straight through the hardest chapters of his life. Written in the shadow of his brother’s death and recorded with producer David Kalmuskey at Nashville’s Addiction Studios, the record is an […]
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Kelly Hunt: Fueled by Old Strings and the Stories They Carry There’s a certain alchemy that happens when Kelly Hunt holds a century-old instrument. “I feel very protective of that instrument,” she said of her original Depression-era tenor banjo, its leather head delicate with age, “because that leather is a thin band of leather that […]
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Greta Gaines: Bird Before Light and the Freedom to Begin Again Greta Gaines has never been one to stay in a single lane. From her early days as a world champion snowboarder to her self-taught journey into songwriting, she has always followed her instincts—sometimes against the grain, always with conviction. With the release of her […]
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A.J. Croce: Carrying the Music Forward photo by Jim Shea For A.J. Croce, music is both inheritance and discovery, a legacy lived and reshaped on his own terms. The son of the beloved Jim Croce, A.J. has spent decades forging his identity as a musician while navigating the echo of a father whose songs still […]
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Catching Momentum: Maia Sharp’s Poetic Reckoning On the surface, Maia Sharp’s songs sound effortless—phrases that float with conversational ease, melodies that feel inevitable once you’ve heard them. But ease is an illusion; the heart of her craft is wrestling with uncertainty. For Sharp, every song is both a mirror and a map, a way of […]
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Interview: Moved by Metaphor, Dar Williams Commits to the Hummingbird Highway Dar Williams toured a spice farm in Belize set amid pristine jungles and primordial Mayan ruins. At a bumpy junction, the driver told the passengers that there were three possible options: steering east, veering west, or sticking to the middle road, which he called […]
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Tim O’Brien Continually Lives the Dream Tim O’Brien intended for Paper Flowers to be a lighthearted record, a pleasant distraction from worldly strife, following a period of more serious songwriting. Onstage, he playfully embraces the material’s cheerful tone. “This album and these songs just create a good time,” said O’Brien. “I think we were looking […]
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At Peace While Observing: The Life of Samantha CrainBy Brian D’Ambrosio Language quenches Samantha Crain’s flaming fire. An exceptionally potent songwriter, Crain finds that her spirit, affections, desires, and disposition live and reign in language. Her nuanced writing is something that she sees as both a gift and a demand. Crain was born, raised, and […]
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