Good Taste and Short Songs: Teddy Thompson on Influence, Restraint, and Never Be The Same Teddy Thompson doesn’t talk about influence so much as drift—what finds its way in early, what stays, and what quietly shapes a life without ever announcing itself. On his new album Never Be The Same, Thompson returns to original material […]
Ellen Froese photo by Landon Johnson Ellen Froese: Songs from the Prairie Edge There is a long stretch of road in Canada where the land seems to empty itself of everything but distance. Gas stations thin out, forests close in, and the horizon feels less like a destination than a state of mind. It was […]
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From Busker to Believer: The Hard-Earned Songs of Slaid Cleaves Slaid Cleaves lives in Wimberley now, tucked into the folds of the Texas Hill Country, playing closer to home, keeping the circle small. The road that once stretched from Maine to Cork to Austin has narrowed. The songs, though, are still wide open There was […]
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Tim Easton Finds Light on fIREHORSE At nearly 60, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Tim Easton is still chasing songs the way he did as a restless young troubadour roaming Europe with a guitar case open on cobblestones. His 14th studio album, fIREHORSE, feels both hard-earned and freshly struck — a record that balances revolution and romance, one-chord […]
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Yielding to the Song: Lynn Miles and the Discipline of Emotional Balance By any commercial metric, Lynn Miles has never chased the idea of dominance. Instead, over a career that now spans decades, the Canadian singer-songwriter has practiced something rarer and more exacting: submission. Not to trend, or industry pressure, or even audience expectation—but to […]
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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 […]
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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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