Unraveling In The Most Beautiful Way: Leah Blevins
First Time Feeling, the new album from Leah Blevins, radiates with driving groove, subtle countrypolitan flourishes, and deep breaths of Laurel Canyon reverb. The…
Interviews
‘I don’t really know what we call this music from a genre standpoint, but it’s mine and that’s where I belong’: Maggie Rose on New Album, FAME & Deprogramming Herself for Success
It’s a shade past one on a July afternoon when Maggie Rose calls from the green room of the Ram’s Head in Annapolis. She…
Andrew Crawford Trio featuring Brandi Colt & Sterling Waite to Perform at JBA on July 30th
He’s been a teacher, a sideman, and a producer, but South Carolina native Andrew Crawford is set to hoist his own banner in 2021…
The Way Things Are and Were: Jesse Daniel
In the spring of 2020, with COVID-19 shutting down businesses and tours like lights in a house, Jesse Daniel released Rollin’ On, a honky…
Redemption & Mojo: Paul Thorn Talks New Album
On August 6th, Paul Thorn will release It’s Never Too Late To Call, the follow-up to 2018’s Don’t Let The Devil Ride and the…
That Old Familiar Feeling: Graham Young on Michigan Rattlers’ New Album & Return to Touring
Formed by childhood friends on the verdant and crisp coast of Little Traverse Bay, Michigan Rattlers matured organically from the close harmony and strums…
Tradition & Blood: Dallas Burrow
I’ve always admired the songwriters with one boot on the stage and one on the back porch. The balancing act between art and family…
Embracing Stranger Sounds: Boy Golden & the Church of Better Daze
Commentators much edgier and/or educated than yours truly have posited that a reboot of the 20th Century’s Roaring ’20s is imminent. Like that intoxicatingly…
‘There’ll always be a lonesome whistle whinin’ somewhere’: Erik Shicotte Talks New EP, Counting Cars, and the Transcendence of Train Songs
Erik Shicotte delivers hard-earned Midwestern twang that cannonballs with diesel-powered intent on his new EP Miss’ry Pacific. Wielding a cast iron voice seasoned to…