CC Nichols Hell on the Potomac CC Nichols’ new album Hell on the Potomac embodies a layered Appachian sound. Conceptually, this is a concept album with a focus of a particular sort: one about a West Virginian small town in its space and place. It’s a town just across the Potomac River from Cumberland, Maryland, […]
Alex Krawczyk Wonders Await Listening for the Human Signal: Alex Krawczyk’s “Wonders Await” and the Sound of Staying Present There’s a moment, early in Alex Krawczyk’s LP, Wonders Await, when you realize this record isn’t trying to impress you. It isn’t reaching for the grand statement or the big reveal. Instead, it’s asking a quieter, […]
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The Antennas Acid Westerns The Antennas are a 3-piece folk and roots band from upstate New York who have a new album just out, Acid Westerns. Acid Westerns are Americana style songs with open and roomy choruses and generally mellow vibes, resulting in a big stage feeling and a sense of personal introspection both at the […]
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Parry Lamont Parry Lamont Parry Lamont has just released an album of thoughtful folk songs, Parry Lamont. Parry has one of those vulnerable vocals that stands out high above the crowd with raw, steady relatability. And his songwriting is exceptional, as he describes the good life, stories from days gone by, aging, going to war, […]
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Afton Wolfe photo by Joshua Black Wilkins Afton Wolfe has a newly released album named after the lesser know constellation Ophiuchus, which, according to astrologers, may have more of a relationship to those born in December than is currently being considered. The album contains meditative songs on very relatable human experiences. We had a chance […]
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Chris Rusin Songs From A Secret Room Chris Rusin just quietly dropped a new album of folk songs Songs From A Secret Room, produced by Andrew Berlin (Gregory Alan Isakov) and full of scintillating songs with hushed rustic arrangements and dazzlingly, tight raw vocal harmonies. A number of life’s gravest happenstances almost stood in the […]
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Favorite Son Juniper The band Favorite Son hails from San Antonio Texas. They’re a four piece band at their core, although there are a few guests on sax, pedal steel and harmonies for the album. Guitarists Cooper Greenberg and Ramon Botello have played together since high school which is evident in the close complex and […]
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John Francis O’Mara Forbidden Hymns John Francis O’Mara has a new album of spiritual Forbidden Hymns that tackle hard realities head on. This is not your head in the clouds, pie in the sky brand of spirituality – this album is heavy and frank and focused on injustice, humanity, fallibility, human love and loss, and […]
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Dirk Schwenk – Bring That Back Dirk Schwenk hails from Annapolis, Maryland where he pens thoughtful, expressive folk style songs, some of which are freshly available on his new album Bring That Back. Dirk’s songs are old timey in style, with that familiar feel that you can’t quite place them, even though they also tend […]
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Bob Augustine’s Folk-IndieBob: A Journey from Darkness into Light There’s a sacred vibration that hums at the heart of Bob Augustine’s debut LP, Folk-IndieBob. It’s not the polished hum of a Nashville studio nor the reverb-soaked shimmer of indie darlings chasing coolness. No, this is something rawer, more vulnerable—a man in Pittsburgh with an acoustic […]
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