Like every other music lover, I love making playlists. Check out this month’s update of Her Voice, a playlist that celebrates the women of Americana. Follow and enjoy! It’ll be updated monthly with a cumulative year end list.
By my estimation, there are two kinds of “covers” albums – copycat ones and reinvention ones. With the former, the artist does nothing more than record his or her version of another artist’s songs without much originality or vitality and with the latter, the artist reinterprets those same songs in a way that makes […]
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I have always believed that the good measure of a folk album is how well its overall message resonates with the average listener. By that measuring rod, singer-songwriter Drayton Farley has just given us a great one with A Hard Up Life. With the fourteen songs on this record containing lyrics that are immediately […]
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From the opening titular track of Ani DiFranco’s new alt-folk album Revolutionary Love, it is apparent that she is on a mission. A mission to find the answers to a lot of questions that we are all asking right now and they are namely – how best do we come to terms with the […]
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The backstory behind Gather Round, the new solo album from Stray Cat upright bass player Lee Rocker (his first in over thirteen years) is a fascinating one. Born mostly from an introspective 6,000 mile, 6 weeks, 20 state road trip that Rocker and his wife Deborah embarked on in 2020 in their Airstream […]
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With Be The Change, the new album from singer-songwriter Jarrod Lawson, the artist traverses flawlessly from smooth jazz to hypnotic soul all the while delivering some of the best “message” music of the past year. This is an album that will arm you musically, lyrically, and intellectually for the spiritual and psychological fights ahead […]
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Laura B. Whitmore is a veteran marketer of the musical instrument and audio industries, a producer, a journalist, a singer-songwriter, and the founder of the Women’s International Music Network (WiMN). Founded in 2012, the WiMN is an organization dedicated to helping women who work in all facets of the music business become more connected to […]
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On the occasion of marking and commemorating another birthday of the American icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I want to revisit why I still consider him one of the biggest heroes in my own life. A hero for me is someone who, when facing a certain set of circumstances, acts in a way […]
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Like every other music lover, I love making playlists. While compiling my favorite song playlist for the chaotic year that was 2020, I became awestruck as I was gloriously reminded of how many of my favorite songs of this past year were written by and/or performed by women. Amongst all that was going on, 2020 […]
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On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of his death on January 10th, I am moved to pen this tribute to one of music’s biggest icons of the last fifty years, one whose influence extends beyond genre – the man and artist known as David Bowie. As a punk rocker in the 1980s, I viewed […]
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