Nick Cristiano

Game recognizes game: On their new album, All This Time, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams borrow from another prominent Americana couple, Buddy and Julie Miller. Their searing take on the Millers’ “I Love You” matches the almost scarily intense devotion (“I’d take a bullet for you”) at the heart

Near the end of his fourth studio album, on a number called “Triumph,” Gary Clark Jr. urges listeners to “set the world on fire.” Clark himself has been doing that with his music since he emerged as a six-string prodigy a decade and a half ago, the latest in a

Todd Snider was on a creative roll when he recorded a new album in 2007. It was called Crank It, We’re Doomed, and for some reason the mercurial singer-songwriter decided to shelve it, though several tracks would wind up on subsequent albums, some with different titles and altered arrangements.

It’s a cliché, but there’s no other way to put it: Even back on his 2017 debut, released when he was 22, Colter Wall sounded like an old soul. A lot of it has to do with his voice: His baritone has a weathered quality, making him sound

Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton come at rock generally from different angles — she from the blues, he from country. Nevertheless, they have a lot in common. Both pen sharply drawn songs that help them put an indelible personal stamp on blues-rock and country-rock, respectively. Both deliver those songs with a