Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and guitarist Mary Gauthier doesn’t make records often. The newly released Reckoning is her first since 2022’s Dark Enough to See the Stars, which was her first since 2018’s Rifles & Rosary Beads. Like its predecessors, the new one was worth the wait. Gauthier’s arresting vocals, which are front and center throughout […]
New Earth Farmers – Cure For the Late Bloom Though the band is tagged as a California roots-rock collective, the basic structure of this music from the outset of “Atmosphere” is balls-out rock ‘n’ roll. The playing is exceptional, has all the vibrant dignity of gin & juicy moments throughout their forms of expression. But […]
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New Earth Farmers “Be All The Love” Americana Highways presents this video premiere of New Earth Farmers’ song “Be All the Love,” from their forthcoming album Cure For The Late Bloom, set for realease on September 26. The album was produced by Paul Michael Knowles, engineered by Paul Michael Knowles and Peter Craft, and mastered […]
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New Earth Farmers – The Sky From The Underground If one were to apply a progressive rock brush stroke to a folky-rootsy countrified arrangement & distill it in biting notes, guitar clarity & vocal unity with edginess you’d find New Earth Farmers. Yes, that’s what I’m hearing – a controlled application of progressive rock just […]
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The great songwriter Burt Bacharach, who teamed up most famously with lyricist Hal David, also worked for nearly three decades with Elvis Costello. That pairing may at first seem as unlikely as the one between Robert Plant and Alison Krause or the Christmas medley recorded by Bing Crosby and David Bowie. Take a close look […]
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