It has been a while since Natalie Merchant released a new album. In fact, Keep Your Courage is her first album since her self-titled album released in 2014. Despite the long break between albums, she remains one of those artists that you can’t mistake for anyone else. Of the new album, she said, “The songs […]
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Dean Zucchero is a bassist who grew up and got his musical career started in New York. After leaving New York, he spent nine years touring with The Healers. When he returned to the States, he found a home in New Orleans playing with Cyril Neville, among others. The city has certainly impacted his music, […]
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Del Barber is a singer-songwriter from the prairies of Manitoba who has been nominated three times for a Juno Award. Like Colter Wall, he’s no stranger to singing about farming, ranching and other things common to life on the Canadian prairies. For his new album Almanac, Barber and his road band went into the studio […]
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Robbie Fulks has never been an artist that is content to make the same sort of album repeatedly. He is just as comfortable making an album of sad country songs as he is making a rock n roll album with Linda Gail Lewis. That being said, as someone who grew up in North Carolina and […]
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The Shootouts — Stampede Akron, Ohio, probably isn’t the first place that comes to mind when you think of country bands. In that regard, The Shootouts is a band that is a pleasant surprise.On its previous two albums, The Shootouts have given the world a good collection of honky-tonk songs. On those albums, they proved […]
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Dyer Davis is only in his early 20s, but, being the son of a musician, has enjoyed a good musical education. His formative years included the music of Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart among others. In 2021, producer Billy Chapin convinced Stephen Dees of WildRoots Records to record with the talented singer-songwriter. That was his […]
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Mark Erelli is a singer-songwriter from the Boston area who is known for his ability to craft a song, whether it’s just him on a guitar or backed by a band. His song “By Degrees” was nominated for song of the year (in the same category as some guy named John Prine) at the 2019 […]
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One thing that you can say for certain about Jim Brunberg is that he is a top-notch storyteller. What’s less predictable is the sort of melody that will accompany one of his stories. When you listen to his songs, sometimes you’ll hear a folky song with picking like you might hear in a Leo Kottke […]
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Schwindy’s Buzzin’ Dozen: The Top Albums of 2022 The end of another year is upon us, and it’s time to reflect on some of the best music that was released this year. Plenty of great albums (a lot of which were inspired by the forced isolation of COVID-19) were released in 2022. While it’s never […]
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The Young Fables is a duo comprising Laurel Wright and Wes Lunsford. Wright got her first real break when she won the Texaco Country Showdown at age 16. In addition to the prize money, Wright also won the opportunity to perform on the Ryman Auditorium stage. Sometime after that, she met Lunsford. The two realized […]
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