You know what the world needs? More rockabilly. Pearls Mahone delivers with a voice that they just don’t make anymore. With a velvety Patsy Cline-like purr and a sense of reckless fun, Mahone’s an unholy alliance of demure 50s pin-up…
The backstory for Pops Staples’ posthumous release is almost as interesting as the album itself. To be honest, I only really knew about — and appreciated — Mavis Staples with her “comeback” album You Are Not Alone. (My parents pretty…
I feel like I’ve been posting a lot of…gentler…music on the blog than I have in the past. I’m trying to find more of a balance, and “Six String All to My Heart,” the lead single off of Purple Hill’s…
What happens when a group of New Orleans songwriters at their primes sit around a kitchen table and shoot the shit? They create a Voltron of top-notch music. The Write Brothers consist of Spencer Bohren, Jim McCormick, Alex McMurray, and…
Don’t you miss the ’90s? It felt like a quiet time, to be sure, but as one new book points out, the ’90s were actually pretty fucked up. But I wasn’t aware of that at the time, and neither were…