Helene Cronin photo by Brooke Stevens Helene Cronin Takes The Next Step In Her Evolution with “Maybe New Mexico” Singer/songwriter Helene Cronin recently released her third full-length studio album, Maybe New Mexico, building steadily on her previous work, including a holiday EP. A relentless songwriter who has become more and more comfortable as a performing […]
Jack Barksdale interview Jack Barksdale came into public view in the music world and into the consciousness of the folk and Americana music scene as a very young child prodigy whose command of the guitar is utterly incredible. Having played with folks like Ray Wylie Hubbard, Sarah Jarosz, Winona Judd, and Hayes Carll (when Jack […]
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Eric Schmitt interview Eric Schmitt on Teaching Songwriting and Recording Wait For The Night To Tape Eric Schmitt is a Louisiana native, songwriter, and musician who recently released his album, Wait For The Night, which was recorded on an eight-track tape machine at Clay Parker’s studio in Gonzales, Louisiana, where Parker was also the recording […]
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Jamie James on The Ever-Present Blues and His Solo Debut Straight Up Jamie James is a songwriter and musician who has been making music his whole life, and this Spring, he released his debut solo album, Straight Up, recorded with some longtime bandmates. James has always been into the blues and blues rock, and he’s […]
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd on Collaborating With Bobby Rush for Young Fashioned Ways In March, Bobby Rush and Kenny Wayne Shepherd released their collaborative album titled Young Fashioned Ways. Its intentional multi-generational approach brought together multi-Grammy winning Blues artist Rush, who is 91 years old, and much younger, but well seasoned artist Shepherd, who is also […]
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Photo of Splendid Torch (including Lily Sexton) by Orion Willits The New England-based band Splendid Torch is the newly reconfigured band consisting of most of the members from Mamma’s Marmalade, and they have a new album hot off the presses: ICON. ICON‘s tracks were originally slated for a new release by Mamma’s Marmalade. But life […]
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Samantha Crain photo by Sequoia Ziff Samantha Crain Honors Interconnectedness With Gumshoe Oklahoma-based Chocktaw artist Samantha Crain recently released her seventh studio album, Gumshoe, and is currently on a European tour to be followed by an extensive North American tour in June and July. It marks her first solo album since 2021’s I Guess We […]
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Stan Lynch Finds Rock ‘n Roll Collaboration In New Band The Speaker Wars Stan Lynch is known for a large body of musical work as a drummer, producer, and songwriter, notably as the founding drummer of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and for working with The Eagles, Don Henley, Ringo Starr, and many others. On […]
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Jock Bartley of Firefall on The Freedom of 1970s Songwriting and Friends and Family 2 On May 23rd, 2025, the Colorado-based group Firefall will follow their beloved 2024 Friends and Family album with a second volume. As a classic band from the 1970s that has continued to tour, recording the music of their colleagues […]
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Will Johnson photo by Todd Wolfson Will Johnson is kind of the hyphenate of all hyphenates. The singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist-novelist-painter (seriously – he creates beautiful art, often centered around baseball) is currently touring with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, but his multi-tendrilled career goes back decades, including bands Centro-matic and Monsters of Folk, as well as […]
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