Ed Snodderly has been in the game for a long time. His 1977 debut, Sidewalk Shoes, kick-started a career that his included the Brother Boys (with Eugene Wolf) and covers by Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, John Cowan, Missy Raines, and…
Lots of great music came out this past Friday — Childers, McBryde, Joan Osborne, Julian Taylor…and even more that I know I’m missing as some of Americana and country’s best angle for year-end playlists. But the first album I hit…
Did you know that grad school would seriously cut down on your time to write about music, let alone listen to it? Couldn’t be me! So over the next few weeks you’ll see me writing capsule album reviews in a…
I didn’t even have to listen to this song to know I wanted to call it to your attention. Wendy Moten, whom I interviewed for the Nashville Scene, is a vocal powerhouse and jack-of-all trades. Stephanie Urbina Jones knows how…
It’s difficult to find a band that transcends to the highs of Noble Dust. The Boston-based sextet creates music that fits comfortably in the folk canon but might be better thought of as art songs. Buttressed by horns and strings,…
There’s no shortage of cross-talk about authenticity in country music, but Ross Cooper is one of the few Nashville songsmiths who is an actual rodeo cowboy. Cooper’s upcoming album Lightning Heart is as much a celebration of his literal cowboy…
Veteran performer Rachael Sage brings all that experience to bear on her recent release The Other Side. As Sage explained to our sister site Rainbow Rodeo, the album comes in the wake of cancer treatment, the upheaval of lockdown, and…
Jimmy Deveney and The Hold Fast Union bring Albuquerque’s vastness to soul music. The desert’s influence is easily felt on the band’s song “Handprints” (available for streaming on Friday, 8 You can pre-save the song here.) The vast expanses surrounding…