When The Wildness showed up in my inbox, the subject line instructed me to leave room for it on my year-end list. Whatever — most of solicitations will say that this time of year. Somewhere about halfway through the second…
You don’t need to know anything about Sam Gleaves’ backstory to hear the truth and power in “Working Shoes,” the lead-off track on Gleaves’ masterful Ain’t We Brothers? To judge from the powerful lineup on the album, I’m not the…
It’s hard to imagine a more picturesque life than the Nouveaux Honkies’. Tim O’Donnell and Rebecca Dawkins travel the country in a souped-up RV, complete with solar panels and a mini recording studio. The couple set up shop in a…
Cashavelly Morrison’s debut album, The Kingdom Belongs to a Child, is a remarkable pearl. Though the album bears Morrison’s name, the project is co-piloted by her husband, classical guitarist Ryan MacLeod. Cashavelly’s story is unusual in and of itself: a…
Samuel Barker is both a gentleman and a scholar. I know this to be true for the first because I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my e-mail correspondence with him (and I owe him a follow-up) and for the second, he used to…