THE READING ROOM: Tamara Savino's 'Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music' Grammy-winning producer and author Tamara Saviano has a knack for telling stories. She slowly creates a world into which she draws her readers; upon entering, readers find many rooms filled with entrancing conversations about the enduring power of music and its continual evolution. Although Saviano follows the founding and development
ALBUM REVIEW: Ron Sexsmith Gently Bares His Soul on ‘Hangover Terrace’ “I can do whatever I damn well please,” proclaims Ron Sexsmith calmly on his latest standout album, voicing steely defiance with typical restraint. Regardless of his sentiments, which can range from placid to fraught, he wraps them in such lovely melodies that it’s easy to mistake these thoughtful songs
ALBUM REVIEW: Anna Tivel Explores Her Final Frontier on 'Animal Poem' Anna Tivel is a consummate storyteller whose keen eye and compassionate heart have dazzled us with stories of floating balloons; an elderly queer couple whose momentoes of their quiet defiance are destroyed in a house fire; a troubled young man who is mistaken as a suspect in a mass shooting;