Henry Carrigan

A new album by Old Crow Medicine Show is a cause for celebration, and Paint This Town is no exception. The band plays with a raucous abandon made even more powerful by the stomping, percussive rhythms that swirl madly within the restraints of the sonic structures of each song. The

Hauntingly beautiful in its spacious lyricism, Amy Speace’s new album, Tucson, floats through a powerfully emotional landscape, moving from darkness to dawn tentatively but with the increasing confidence of a survivor gaining power over the past by being there for others. Like poets Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop, Speace

Ray Wylie Hubbard had such a good time making his last album, Co-Starring (ND review), that he came back for more, and hell if he doesn’t party ’till his wheels fall off on this roaring, rocking, swampy collection of songs. On Co-Starring Too, his “co-stars” include Willie Nelson, Jaimee

This is a brilliant idea for an album, and who better than singer, pianist, conductor, and nightclub owner Michael Feinstein to put it together? When he was 20, he worked as Ira Gershwin’s assistant and archivist for six years, and his debut album, Pure Gershwin (1987), is a collection

There’s an edge in Terry Klein’s voice that hovers somewhere between world-weariness and laconic all-knowingness, edging now and then into a studied nod-and-a-wink about human foibles. The title of Klein’s new album — Good Luck, Take Care — pokes a little fun at our tendency to roll glib phrases