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’”…
They say you have to take any opportunity you can — especially in the music business. Maiah Wynne took that advice to heart. Working on the set of the recent Bill Pullman Western flick The Ballad of Lefty Brown, Wynne…
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…
It’s been a while since I’ve heard somebody come out swinging like Michelle Malone. The Atlanta-based blues guitarist doesn’t hold back with Slings and Arrows — a blues rock album that nods to the Civil Rights Movement and present-day struggles…
If there’s one thing that folk music gets right, it’s that sense of resigned determination. If there’s one thing Vivian Leva gets right, it’s giving her songs a truly eternal quality. Her music could just as easily be recovered from…