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THE READING ROOM: New Book Follows Blind Boys of Alabama Along the Gospel Highway
Since 1939, The Blind Boys of Alabama have been riding up and down the gospel highway in the US, “wrecking houses” — channeling the Holy Ghost through their music and rousing congregations to leap, run up and down and dance in the aisles — in every town they visited.
During their long
ALBUM REVIEW: The Staves, Now a Duo, Keep Eyes on the Present on ‘All Now’
All Now, the fifth album from UK sister act The Staves, is their first as a duo, following the departure of Emily Staveley-Taylor. However, the reconfigured group remains at the height of their confidence on All Now, which begins with a triumphant, self-titled mission statement (“It’s all now, isn’
A Century of Women’s Suffrage Flows Through Aoife O’Donovan’s ‘All My Friends’
Aoife O’Donovan maintains she’s not a political songwriter. Not intentionally, or outwardly, anyway. Sitting outside on her balcony in Central Florida, laughing about her coincidental fashion choice of a dad hat embroidered with the state’s outline, O’Donovan considers an artist’s public role in political matters.
ALBUM REVIEW: Waxahatchee Finds an Ease in Hard Lessons on ‘Tigers Blood’
It might make sense to look at Saint Cloud, the beloved, spellbinding 2020 album from Waxahatchee, as a kind of beginning, as its nucleus Katie Crutchfield took her first steps toward a more alt-country sound. Then, her 2022 collaboration with Jess Williamson, Plains, felt like another few steps (ND review)
ALBUM REVIEW: Cosmic Country and More Pave the Way on Sam Morrow’s ‘On the Ride Here’
Various and assorted assigners of labels are trying to lasso him with a cosmic cowboy lariat, but Sam Morrow won't be attending the roundup. He's too frisky to be tied down.
Although he's a Houston denizen, Morrow’s music doesn't sound like
ALBUM REVIEW: Driftwood Returns to Its Core for ‘December Last Call’
Like most bands, Driftwood keenly felt the pandemic shutdowns that grounded touring musicians for most of a year. Coming right in the middle of promotion for their 2019 album Tree of Shade (ND review), the band found itself at a loose end. The solution? Start working on the follow-up. The