Kim Ruehl

Our story begins in Ohio, at Oberlin College. A busy college conservatory hallway, where deep-thinking coeds bustle past, discussing music theory and other heady ideas. In walks a young woman from Greensboro, NC, named Rhiannon Giddens – tall and dark-skinned, high cheekbones, a playful, thoughtful look in her eye, an opera

Pause, for readers to roll their eyes. This song, after all, has been sung into absurdity. It's been performed beautifully by great singers like kd lang and Jeff Buckley before her. But it's also been paraded around by American Idol contestants and high school talent show

Once upon a time, a writer was working on a story about a musician. The musician was a local girl. She'd grown up outside the city and came of age cutting her teeth at local bars and chowder houses and coffee shops all over the region. She had

It's hard to ignore an artist who keeps remarkably talented company (consider Greg Leisz, James Intveld, Sara Watkins, etc.), so I'm pleased to be able to share a free download from Nick13, whose recent self-titled release dropped on Sugar Hill on June 7, 2011. The tune