We Can Be Horses, the first full-length album from Milwaukee-based Buffalo Gospel, is a stunner. Like a hit-you-between-the-eyes-and-you-didn’t-know-what-happened kind of deal. Buffalo Gospel’s work is a fine example of modern, minimalist Americana. Vaguely melancholy, cautiously optimistic, 100% moving. The band’s…
For those of you who, like me, need to brush up on your folk music history, Alice Gerrard is a living legend. One of the first musicians — let alone ladies — to popularize bluegrass among ’60s hipsters, she also…
It’s not hard to imagine Hezekiah Goode riding along the plain, running down a stray bull with a lasso in hand. Or whatever. He just sounds so much like what a cowboy should that I feel like that’s just where…
I post a lot of music that I like up here, but there are some bands that make me happy that I’m a music blogger. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have heard about a band like Butchers Blind. If bands like The…
Nicki Bluhm’s polished folk pop grabs you by the ear and doesn’t let go. The Gramblers’ self-titles album may not be for you more rugged readers. But it holds a place in my heart. Bluhm’s sunny voice and the…
Will Schwartz is a lyrical ninja. I actually listened to New Haircut a few months ago and took a pass on it. I didn’t really need to listen to another sad Brooklyn boy play his guitar. But that was stupid…
It’s been a while since I’ve had an album make me smile, then completely gut me, then make me smile again. Bravo, Tillers. The Tillers may owe their style to traditional Appalachian music, but unlike most of the folkies I’ve…
Company Calls is on to something big. As you can see from the lack of a bass guitar, Sleater-Kinney is clearly one of their influences. And it’s easy to find both Bikini Kill and Le Tigre-era Kathleen Hannah in there…