Grant Britt

Shemekia Copeland has never had any trouble being heard. With her blast furnace, in-your-face delivery, she gets her message across loud and clear. Although she's usually tagged as a blues singer, Copeland transcends that label with a mix of styles including gospel, rock, blues, soul, and,

Lee Bains has gone folky on his latest release, Old-Time Folks, but he ain't no easygoing troubadour. His lyrics resonate with folk-flavored protest themes, but his delivery system is nowhere near the stool-perching acoustic pundits of yore. The Alabama native's music has been

Once upon a time in Raleigh, North Carolina, for about 10 bucks total, you could get the best sandwich in town and a dose of red-hot rockin’ honky-tonk courtesy of Kenny Roby. Like a punky John Prine, Roby rocked the joint with folky country-flavored yee-haw music

Ben Harper is a master of trickeration. That's the term gospel icons The Dixie Hummingbirds used to describe what their lead singer Ira Tucker did: in-your-face showmanship that soul men lifted right out of church, the gospel aspects of the music trying to bust out and

From the title of his debut album, Who Is He?, you might assume that Dylan Triplett might be having an identity crisis. But nothing could be further from the truth. Triplett is a 21-year-old from St. Louis who just sings his ass off on this very impressive debut