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Michelle Malone has been the life of the party for decades, and on her new album, Southern Comfort, she demonstrates why. A good party is fun, but a great party is a much deeper experience – it’s not about barely remembering what happened the next day, but more about a

Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (Odanak First Nation) have worked nothing less than a miracle on symbiont, out Friday on Smithsonian Folkways. The album continues the work of Blount's Afro-futurist climate change epic The New Faith (2022) and Obomsawin's portentous assertion of Indigenous music’s place

Caleb Caudle has traveled a long road to where he stands today. His music has gone through many permutations, and his latest album, Sweet Critters, has found the sweet spot between his explorations into folk, gospel, country soul, and funk. This is an album of homecomings and growing into yourself

On her new album Baptized by the Blaze, India Ramey is here to kick ass, play honky-tonk, and chew bubblegum — and she’s all out of gum. She’s also out of Klonopin; this album details Ramey’s life-affirming experience of working through childhood trauma to end her reliance on

Pony Bradshaw does more than share stories with his music. Rather, he embodies an entire cosmology of figures from his adopted home of North Georgia. Bradshaw’s latest album, Thus Spoke the Fool, concludes the trilogy he embarked upon with Calico Jim (2021) and North Georgia Rounder (2023). As he

We’re all just looking for a reason to fall in love again. Maybe that’s with a person, a cause, ourselves, the world in general — or even just a new album. Ana Egge makes it all easy to do on her 13th album, Sharing in the Spirit. Egge hit