Michael Elliott

The Blue Dogs hail from South Carolina, but their sound pulls as much from the heartland rock of John Mellencamp as it does from the groovy melting pot of Little Feat. Their influences inform, but don’t overshadow, the 11 new songs contained on their first new album in 16

Matt Andersen has drawn from the best roots music has to offer over his decades-long career: down and dirty blues, heart-wrenching soul, life-affirming gospel, and introspective singer-songwriter balladry. These sounds, textures, and influences are laid bare on House to House, which is Andersen’s ninth studio album but first solo

The release of the 16th installment in Bob Dylan’s ongoing Bootleg Series, Springtime in New York, marks 30 years since the first three volumes appeared as a three-disc boxset in 1991. Three decades is an impressively lengthy career for anyone at any time in the music business. Considering this

With He Walked On, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tim O’Brien lays all his cards on the table from the first song, “When You Pray (Move Your Feet).” The saying was a favorite of the late Georgia congressman John Lewis, and it sets the tone for O’Brien’s first new

Over 40 years is a long time to wait for anything, much less the sequel to an album. But when that album is Markology II, the first guitar album released by fiddle virtuoso and legend Mark O’Connor since Markology in 1978, it’s well worth the wait. There is

Some might be surprised to learn that The Mavericks have never in their 30 years as a band released an all-Spanish album, but it makes some sense when you know their story. Mavericks co-founder Raul Malo is a first-generation American (his Cuban-born parents escaped the Castro regime in the early