You don’t need to know anything about Sam Gleaves’ backstory to hear the truth and power in “Working Shoes,” the lead-off track on Gleaves’ masterful Ain’t We Brothers? To judge from the powerful lineup on the album, I’m not the…
It’s hard to imagine a more picturesque life than the Nouveaux Honkies’. Tim O’Donnell and Rebecca Dawkins travel the country in a souped-up RV, complete with solar panels and a mini recording studio. The couple set up shop in a…
Cashavelly Morrison’s debut album, The Kingdom Belongs to a Child, is a remarkable pearl. Though the album bears Morrison’s name, the project is co-piloted by her husband, classical guitarist Ryan MacLeod. Cashavelly’s story is unusual in and of itself: a…
Samuel Barker is both a gentleman and a scholar. I know this to be true for the first because I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my e-mail correspondence with him (and I owe him a follow-up) and for the second, he used to…
Quiet Hollers were one of the first bands I wrote about on here. Of the thousands of songs I’ve listened to since for the sake of the blog, there are several from their debut album, I Am the Morning, that…