Henry Carrigan

On their twelfth album, the North Mississippi Allstars celebrate the sounds that brought them together on their 2000 debut, Shake Hands with Shorty. Still Shakin’, delivering a rousing blend of funky Memphis soul, Mississippi Hill Country blues, swampy rock and roll, and glittering jazz blues fusion. Jojo Hermann’s ethereal

In the four years since his last album—Maybe We Never Die (2021)—Anderson East has been busy doing what he does best: writing soulful songs that cut deep through the emotional layers of life and delivering them in his close-to-the-heart vocals. On his new album, Worthy, produced by Dave

Jedd Hughes is well-known among Nashville’s finest musicians—he's played with Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, and Patty Loveless, among others—but he deserves to be even better known outside those circles, too. Nightshades, Hughes’ second solo album, should get him the attention he deserves.A

Any world that includes Willie Nelson singing the songs of Rodney Crowell is a beautiful one, indeed. Nelson’s are still remarkably strong into his ninth decade, and he selects 12 of Crowell’s emotionally resonant songs from the past 50 years — ranging from 1976’s “Banks of the Old