Darrin Bradbury – Artvertisement On his second album for Anti, Artvertisement, Darrin Bradbury continues to build on the small slice of life stories. A diatribe on feeling small in a big industry and sacrificing art for sales, Artvertisement finds Bradbury balancing intimate portraits with big statements in a search for how to fit into this […]
Chris Acker – Odd, Ordinary, and Otherwise Every record that was recorded in 2020 or early 2021 and is currently finding its way to my ears now is filled with a pervasive world weariness – go figure – but none more than Chris Acker’s Odd, Ordinary, and Otherwise. Yet somehow in the midst of the […]
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Sierra Ferrell – Long Time Coming Gypsy jazz, western swing, old time, and country all come together in a swirl of delight on Sierra Ferrell’s Rounder Records debut Long Time Coming out August 20. After carving a niche for her sound while “living in her van and busking on the streets of New Orleans and […]
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Andrew Bryant – A Meaningful Connection On A Meaningful Connection Andrew Bryant searches for that elusive link we all desire and calls out those who pretend everything is fine when it clearly is not. Instrumentation highlights Bryant’s baritone while recalling the causal country of Chris Isaacs as on “Fight” or neo-lounge of Faye Webster on […]
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A Sweet Relief Tribute to Joey Spampinato NRBQ founding member/bassist Joey Spampinato’s cancer battle took him off the road and brought many old friends and fans who stepped up to help. As it has done many times before, an extended community of musicians, friends, and supporters banded together around Joey. The latest result is a […]
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Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny haha With casual irony and nonchalance Faye Webster’s second album for Secretly Canadian, I Know I’m Funny haha, arrives with much the same soft punch and subtle humor that made Atlanta’s Millionaires Club an instant sensation. I Know I’m Funny haha finds Webster growing as a person focusing […]
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Buzzy Lee’s Spoiled Love, released January 29 via Future Classic, ruminates on love, loss, and the ever stranger times and places that mark life’s journey. Buzzy Lee is the recording moniker of Los Angeles based musician Sasha Spielberg. Spoiled Love, her recording debut, is the result of a collaboration with her long time musical partner, […]
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Produced by Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief, Indigo Sparke’s Echo is simultaneously intimate and atmospheric; Sparke reaches for the stars in the midst of the everyday, the sacred amidst the mundane, as it wrestles with death and life in its shadow. The album title, Echo, mirrors Sparke’s soprano soaring reactions to life, but also to […]
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Disco influences infuses Pearl Charles’ country with a fantastical flare on Magic Mirror. “Only for Tonight” sets the stage for an adventurous romp through Charles’ insecurities and inevitable moments of triumph with hints of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” in instrumentation and attitude. “What I Need” follows with Charles declaring “it’s easier to live this lie than to tell the truth, […]
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John John Brown’s streaming only release, Americana Comics, is newly up on Spotify now. A collection of well-crafted “storytelling songs inspired by real people” populate this release. Each of the seven songs has also been recreated as a comic book available through his website here: http://johnjohnbrown.com. Americana Comics features John John Brown on vocals and […]
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