ALBUM REVIEW: 'Believer' Finds NC Duo Blue Cactus Confident and Sure-Footed

Nathan Salsburg, one of the leading lights of fingerstyle acoustic guitar, has long built his reputation on a kind of understated mastery of old-timey folk and traditional American music. While related to the American Primitive guitar movement, his music in both his solo career and as an able sideman for

Since signing to John Prine’s Oh Boy Records in 2019, Kelsey Waldon has established herself as a defining talent among her generation of country musicians, penning homegrown, lived-in songs that veered from immensely personal (like 2019’s “Kentucky, 1988”) to societal critiques (“Lived and Let Go” from that same

After more than a decade of leading his band Promise of the Real, Lukas Nelson is going solo with the more personal writing that emerges on his official debut, American Romance. A collection of love songs to the roads that raised him as a young adult constantly on tour, and