The Urgency of Justin Golden
Justin Golden is proof that one doesn’t need to be broken to play the blues. He owns a backstory of fractured hearts, missed opportunities,…
Interviews
Chasing More: Charles Wesley Godwin
Charles Wesley Godwin’s How the Mighty Fall evokes laurel-covered hillsides, and the smell of morning still ringing from the previous night’s revel. Dressed in…
Until The Thunder: Evan Barber Talks New Album
With a decade of asphalt in the rearview mirror, some might claim that an inevitable reckoning– spiritual, financial, familial, or even physical– would be…
This Initial Verse: Daniel Shearin of River Whyless Talks New Album, ‘Monoflora’
River Whyless’s third album, Kindness, A Rebel, found the Ashville, North Carolina, quartet stepping away from the neo-folk leanings of their first two records,…
Washed Anew: Charley Crockett Loads His Jukebox with Rarities
Charley Crockett’s standing at the counter paying for his lunch when he answers the phone, greeting me like an old pal, “Aaron! What’s goin’…
Nothing To Hide: Erika Lewis Talks New Album Produced by The Deslondes’ John James Tourville
With A Walk around the Sun, singer-songwriter Erika Lewis finally carves out the space she needs to step out on her own. She’s a…
The Lost Thing: Mercer University Press Releases New Poetry Collection from Dr. Sarah Gordon
In 1998, Dr. Sarah Gordon saved my life. I was new to Georgia College & State University, a transfer student with a waning interest…
An Honest Process: Rain Perry Engages With ‘A White Album’
Jonathan Richman, the onetime frontman of The Modern Lovers and a longtime solo artist, has enjoyed a career that has thrived just under the…
David Quinn’s Country Fresh Livin’
Country Fresh finds David Quinn in his honky tonk element, ramblin’, and racin’ between twangy guitars and deliberate fiddles with songs as full of…