Grant Britt

For her eponymous debut, 27-year-old Malawi native Keturah presents a world-class collection of world music. This is gorgeous stuff, harvested from a garden of delights representing an impressive spread of flavors and textures. Malawi has always been a musical cauldron containing a spicy gumbo with ingredients from a loosely assembled

It sounds just like you'd expect from some good ol’ boys who named their band after a salamander. After a 30-year hiatus, the reunited and expanded version of Athens, Georgia's Chickasaw Mudd Puppies pumps out bluesy, Southern rocky swamp metal. In the early 1990s, founders Brant

Carter Sampson specializes in plain talk. The Oklahoma singer-songwriter doesn't fool around much with metaphors, she just hauls off and punches you right in the gut. “I sent you a drunk text / And I meant it,” she admits on “Drunk Text,” from her latest offering, Gold. “I like

To hell, with snakes, could be David Childers' mantra. Since his 1994 debut, Godzilla, He Done Broke Out, he's been a hellish tour guide, leading a series of bands from the Mount Holly Hellcats to the Modern Don Juans to the Serpents of Reformation, now doing business

Eric Bibb has built a career as Mr. Mellow with his soft-spoken, bluesy folk meanderings since his 1972 debut, Ain't It Grand. For his latest, Ridin', the global griot, soulful troubadour, street preacher, and mellow bluesman continues down the same trail, but never wears it out. His