Laura Chavez

REVIEW: Laura Chavez “My Voice”

Laura Chavez My Voice On My Voice, blues guitarist Laura Chavez treats the instrumental album like a self-portrait: part ancestry, part flex, part love letter to the sounds she grew up listening to. Split between covers and originals, the record doesn’t just showcase chops—it reveals the complexities of touch, tone, and taste, the kind of […]

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Emma Swift

REVIEW: Emma Swift “The Resurrection Game” Where the Brutal Becomes Beautiful

Emma Swift – The Resurrection Game Emma Swift’s The Resurrection Game follows in the tradition of her heroes, singer-songwriters like Sandy Denny and Marianne Faithfull, artists who transformed personal struggle into compelling music. As Swift’s first album of original material, it represents an important and promising step in her artistic development. Swift herself describes this […]

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Rodney Crowell

Review: Rodney Crowell Keeps Driving: Airline Highway Marks a Late-Career High Point

Rodney Crowell Airline Highway Before there was Alternative Country, before Outlaw Country, before Americana, there was Rodney Crowell. The veteran songwriter released his debut album, the now-ironically titled Ain’t Living Long Like This, in 1978 — a decade before Steve Earle’s Copperhead Road, two decades before Lucinda Williams’s Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, and a good thirteen […]

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