ALBUM REVIEW: Kelsey Walden looks to the future while interrogating the past on 'Every Ghost' 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
ALBUM REVIEW: Love, Legacy, and the Long Road to Lukas Nelson’s 'American Romance' 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
ALBUM REVIEW: S.G. Goodman’s ‘Planting by the Signs’’ Heat Lightning, Hymns, and Other Forces of Nature The oxytocin-induced delirium of an early romance; the blurred line between dreams and memories; the surreal, blink-and-you-miss-it flicker of heat lightning in a dark, distant sky. There is mysticism in the everyday—being in love, planting a garden, reuniting with an old friend as you grieve another. On her third