Category Review

Joseph Houck — Roam

Joseph Houck describes this album as an album about “traveling,” but I think that’s a bit misleading. If you have trouble finding folk music about having all the chill and rambling aimlessly, you’re not looking in the right places. What’s…

Charlie Overbey — Broken Arrow

Lately I’ve noticed that the musicians we’ve come to love around these parts have been leaning more towards a big, spacey sound that evokes the country music of the 1970s — as well as the psychedelics that accompanied it. I’m…

Leslie Tom — Ain’t It Something, Hank Williams

It’s not that Hank Williams songs need any improving. But on Leslie Tom’s newest release, they get a fresh interpretation. Ain’t It Something, Hank Williams isn’t a straight cover album, though Tom’s renditions of his greats like “Hey Good Lookin’”…

Jodee Lewis — Buzzard’s Bluff

Country music has no shortage of artists who have been through the worst and lived to tell the tale. But it’s not often that an artist gets through that crucible to produce art with the same sense of pride and…