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Conceptual pieces and performance can easily go awry. It takes quality songwriting and a real performative commitment to not only tell a story, but to imbue it with intellectual and emotional resonance. On its new album Of Ghosts and Gods, transatlantic folk duo David Berkeley and Ben Parker, aka Sons
ALBUM REVIEW: Brit Taylor's ‘Land of the Forgotten’ Is One Banger After Another
Brit Taylor casually strings together eleven songwriting masterclasses on her latest album, Land of the Forgotten. The album is dedicated to the small victories and near-misses of Appalachia, which Taylor has traversed as a professional singer since she was a child. Forgotten lovingly pays homage to Taylor’s East Kentucky