When you strip it all down to bare essentials, you get Jamie Stillway’s Lullaby For a Stranger. The instrumental album has a sense of intimate warmth that is gamely striving to stave away coldness and alienation. Considering Stillway wrote and…
Bo Armstrong keeps it simple and true on his new album If your tired heart is aching… Armstrong’s sensitive, straightforward Americana is arresting. With his warm voice at the center of each composition, Armstrong’s tales of exhaustion and optimism carry…
Donny Van Slee grabs the bull by the horns. Music has always been his love, but it wasn’t until he took a stop off in Nashville while pursuing chiropractic studies that he knew he had to be a musician. He…
Trust me, I’ve had a lot of amazing, incredible things happen this year. And somehow, lately, I just want to curl up with music that focuses on licking your wounds. Shirley Hurt’s self-titled album provides a good soundtrack for that.…
There’s nothing like a well-suited collaboration. Sarah Lee Langford released one of my favorite albums of 2019, Two-hearted Rounder. Its moody atmosphere serves as a neat counterweight to Will Stewart’s breezy Slow Life, which came out earlier this year. The…