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Nickel Creek

REVIEW: Nickel Creek’s “Celebrants” is a Refreshing Theatrical Journey

March 22, 2023March 22, 2023CharliesTrail0

Having a new Nickel Creek album out is beyond comforting. Just hearing Grammy winners Chris Thile, Sean Watkins and Sara Watkins again brings warmth, but it is the message of Celebrants, a post-pandemic concept album with 18 interconnected songs, that makes hearing them again an experience. In many ways it’s more a theatrical production than […]

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Dopapod

Show Review: Dopapod Takes Showgoers on Epic Journey

March 13, 2023March 13, 2023CharliesTrail0

Dopapod photos by Charlie and Kari Denison Dopapod at Top Hat in Missoula, Montana. “Oh my God, what a trip,” said a guy next to me while grooving with his girlfriend early into Dopapod’s first set at the Top Hat in Missoula, Montana on Wednesday, March 8. Eli Winderman (keys, vocals) and Rob Compa (guitar, […]

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Doug Levitt

REVIEW: Doug Levitt “Edge of Everywhere”

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023CharliesTrail0

Doug Levitt Offers ‘Cold Comfort’ on gritty, honest Edge of Everywhere Doug Levitt’s Edge of Everywhere, encapsulating 12 years and 120,000 Greyhound miles (as featured on BBC) takes the listener all around the nation, riding the bus with Levitt and meeting the passengers with him from Los Angeles to West Virginia and beyond.  Levitt’s sound […]

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Grant Peeples

REVIEW: Grant Peeples’ “A Murder of Songs” expresses grief and outrage for our nation

February 17, 2023February 17, 2023CharliesTrail0

Grant Peeples’ aptly titled A Murder of Songs expresses grief and outrage for our nation It’s a trying, upsetting time for our nation. Whether you seek the news or not, it finds you, and, when it does, you brace yourself. How do you handle it? In his latest album, A Murder of Songs, contemporary folk […]

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Pony Bradshaw

REVIEW: Pony Bradshaw picks up where he left off with “North Georgia Rounder”

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023CharliesTrail1

Pony Bradshaw — North Georgia Rounder Pony Bradshaw’s third album, North Georgia Rounder – which he’s been releasing bit by bit on Spotify over the last few months – is now available on all streaming services, and it’s a fantastic piece of work, perhaps his best yet.  A less twangy Sturgill Simpson, a more rugged […]

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The Hipocrats

REVIEW: The Hipocrats take listeners on haunting, hopeful “Road to Joy”

January 23, 2023January 24, 2023CharliesTrail0

The Hipocrats — Road to Joy Serendipity strikes when you least expect it. After collaborating on “Caravan,” Seattle singer-songwriters Sarah Brunner and Tyler McGinnis felt the spark and inspiration to set off on their own as the Hipocrats, record an EP and hit the road together. What resulted was 2022’s Road to Joy, six songs […]

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Wasperjaws

REVIEW: Wasperjaws “Nine Good Songs” hits with humor, poignance

December 26, 2022December 26, 2022CharliesTrail1

Wasperjaws “Nine Good Songs” “Wish I could sing it pretty but I’d be too proud if I could,” vocalist, singer and songwriter Danny Smith confesses on “How Will This World,” the first track of Wasperjaws’ Nine Good Songs, a 10-song folk, gospel and blues album for lovers of John Prine and the Kentucky Wildcats. Danny’s […]

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Flatland Cavalry

Getting cold? Flatland Cavalry’s latest EP ‘Songs to Keep You Warm’ will do the trick

November 30, 2022November 30, 2022CharliesTrail0

Flatland Cavalry – Songs to Keep You Warm Flatland Cavalry’s new EP, Songs to Keep You Warm, released Oct. 28, lives up to its name, as the six songs feel like a cozy campfire session, with a bottle of Blanton’s being passed around, keeping spirits high, distracting us from the rest of the noise. The EP […]

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Ruthie Foster

REVIEW: Ruthie Foster Makes a Joyful Noise on “Healing Time”

November 15, 2022November 15, 2022CharliesTrail0

Multiple Grammy nominee Ruthie Foster takes the listener to church with her new LP, Healing Time, her first studio album since 2017. The soulful, liberating album takes the listener on a journey of joy, her gospel roots present on all the tracks. Mark Howard (Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams) and Daniel Barrett both produced the album, […]

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Sean Devine

REVIEW: Sean Devine releases stripped-down EP “Pencil and Paper”

November 8, 2022November 8, 2022CharliesTrail0

Sean Devine — Pencil and Paper There are some songwriters whose albums are so personal and honest that when you hear their latest work it’s like catching up with an old friend. Sean Devine’s intimate new EP Pencil and Paper has that feel the moment he strikes the first chord on the opening track, “How […]

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