Corbie Hill

For many people, their late 20s and early 30s are a messy time. The type of messy — job, love, family, spirituality, overindulgence — is almost immaterial. It’s the overwhelming sense that they should have their footing by now. Life goes one way, but things seem to be moving in another.

“Those ’70s and ’80s blues men took on these Black stereotypes and made this new stereotype of bad, ‘your uncle’s band in a garage’ blues music,” Carl “Buffalo” Nichols told David Browne in a 2022 Rolling Stone story. “It’s already been so far removed from anything recognizable from

Halfway through Turnpike Troubadours’ A Cat in the Rain we meet a cowboy. He rides among backcountry aspens, lost in thought. He was younger, wilder once, for which he’s paid dearly. “I don’t miss the taste of liquor / or really anything about it, but / The temporary shelter was

EDITOR'S NOTE: As album releases slow down in December, we like to catch our breath and write about albums that came out earlier in the year that we didn't get a chance to review but we think are worthy of your attention. Undercover was released in

“August of ‘83 / Alicia came to wreck my city,” David Ramirez sings on My Love Is a Hurricane’s title track. “Six days before I was born / I’d like to think that was some kind of warning.” As the fourth of 10 songs, “My Love is a Hurricane” hits

Right now the studio may just be the most important instrument. Think about it: Live music, that ephemeral, magical, simultaneously intimate and mass experience, is off the table (and likely not coming back soon), thanks to COVID-19. Live streams and virtual shows are cool and all, but this really seems