ALBUM REVIEW: Emma Swift’s 'The Resurrection Game' is End-to-End Melancholy
Emma Swift paints with subdued blue tones in slow, deliberate strokes. Indeed, listening to her new album The Resurrection Game is less like processing a collection of songs and more like getting to know the shapes and shades of a melancholy painting.
“Meet me at the station / where the roses
Sierra Ferrell, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and More Win at 2025 Americana Music Awards
As AMERICANAFEST 2025 jets into full blast in Nashville, Tennessee, the Americana Music Association gathered its members and fans at the Ryman Auditorium last night to hand out its annual honors and awards. Hosted by John C. Reilly, who’s been called "the Bill Murray of Americana," the
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ALBUM REVIEW: West Texas Exiles Come to Town on ‘8000 Days’
Out of the remains of the Dirty River Boys, co-founded in 2009 by guitarist Marco Gutierrez, comes the West Texas Exiles. Joining Gutierrez are bassist Eric Harrison, keyboardist Daniel Davis, guitarist Colin Gilmore, and former Dirty River Boys drummer Trinidad Leal. On 8000 Days, the group’s debut album, the
ALBUM REVIEW: Carson McHone’s Dazzling ‘Pentimento’ Pursues Higher Truths in the Real World
Ambitious and proud of it, Carson McHone reveals where she’s coming from in the opening moments of her dazzling new album. Pentimento begins with a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, standard-bearer of the 19th-century Transcendalist movement, which believed divine truths could be drawn from everyday experience. “Heaven walks among
