Maeri Ferguson

Sam Evian’s latest record, Plunge, sounds exactly like how it was made, over bucolic winter days at his upstate New York studio, surrounded by musician friends, taking daily plunges in a cold creek in the snow, and letting the songs unfold live in the moment. An artist known for

In Corb Lund’s world, the card tables are hot, the stakes are high, the boots are dirty, and the drinks are stiff. Listening to El Viejo, the Canadian country singer stalwart’s latest, is like cracking open a dusty, leather-bound book about the Old West, populated by rough-around-the-edges characters

Lola Kirke has long been dipping a toe in country music, but beyond what its title, Country Curious, suggests, her new EP is a cannonball into the deep end. Kirke is more than just curious, she is enthusiastically wrapping her arms around the genre across the four new songs on

Though it must have been a brutally sad goodbye when Sarah Jarosz left her longtime home of New York City in 2020, her new city suits her. Polaroid Lovers, the seventh studio album from the prolific songwriter with a voice of gold, is Nashville through and through. It has the

Processing a relationship and all its messy complications through songwriting is a daunting enough feat, but exploring your identity at the same time could be enough to do some artists in. Katy Kirby, though, is sturdy and steady on Blue Raspberry, the follow-up to her 2021 debut Cool Dry Place.