Ernest James Zydeco — Automatic
I imagine this is an odd time for musicians in New Orleans. They’re coming down off the high of Mardi Gras but are about to gear up for Jazz Fest (which I am quite excited to attend this year.) So…
Category Review
Jay Woodward — Good Grief
Good Grief, Woodward’s sophomore album, is not for the faint of heart. Composed in response to the loss of several people close to Woodward, Good Grief is much more ambitious in scale than Letters We Told. The album begins with…
Lela Sophia — “NeoB”
I’ve been sitting on this one for a while now. I’ve written about Lela Sophia in the past. I appreciate her minimalist approach to songwriting, which creates a trance-like aura around Sophia’s dreamy lyrics. This is very much Netflix and…
Becky Shaw — shut down, jump in
If you’ve been paying attention to this blog for a while, you’ve already heard Becky Shaw’s work with alterna-grass band Roxie Watson, and in Sonia Tetlow‘s work over the years. Though Shaw has been an Atlanta indie rock staple for…
Top 10 of 2015
Apologies for my hiatus — I needed to turn into an elf for Santa for a couple of weeks. That and my physical exhaustion after teaching for most of a semester (my annual facial tick is gradually dying) made writing…