Carolina Story – Colors Of My Mind Don’t look down on your dreams. This is the name of one of the most prolific tracks on Carolina Story’s new album, Colors of My Mind, and it’s also a message that shines through this entire LP by husband-and-wife duo Ben and Emily Roberts. The duo – a […]
Ben de la Cour — Sweet Anhedonia Ben de la Cour’s Sweet Anhedonia starts in the key of Tom Waits and ends with a sad, lonesome acoustic tune in the key of Steve Earle’s “Goodbye.” Between these two numbers Ben cuts to the core of Americana, paying tribute to many of the pioneers of the […]
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City and Colour — The Love Still Held Me Near “It ain’t enough just to be alive. We’ve got to lean into the love a little before we die.” Canadian alt-folk artist Dallas Green of City and Colour sings this on “Underground,” a song about coping with loss and taking each day as a gift, […]
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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 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 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’ 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 — 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 — 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 “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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