Nashville is busy bestowing well-deserved crowns on Jason, Chris, and (sort of) Sturgill for pushing all the right envelopes and expanding country music to places it hasn’t yet gone. But country is a big tent and somebody needs to hold…
At the end of the day, it all turns into jazz. At least, that’s my sense of any kind of progression of a genre as it continues to push back against its own conventions. Sunny War’s impressive guitar playing, based…
Roxie Watson has been near and dear to my heart for quite some time. The four-piece amiably dips into bluegrass, country, rock-a-billy, and folk with equal measure, and on their fourth release Try A Little Kindness, they throw in a…
I wouldn’t go into this album expecting an uplifting experience. I don’t think that’s a bad thing; sometimes when you’re at your lowest, you need to listen to music that’s down there with you. As you’ll hear on the first…
A classroom teacher with political consciousness and roots rock leanings, Philadelphia’s Drew Harris is a man after my own heart. His band, The Naked Sun, takes its name from an Isaac Asimov novel that exposes our fear of authority and…