ALBUM REVIEW: Cat Clyde Creates a Refuge on ‘Down Rounder’
Listening to Cat Clyde is like spending quality time with a reassuring friend who puts the craziness of the world into perspective. On Down Rounder, her third album of original material, the Canadian singer-songwriter meets the challenge of leading a meaningful existence, confronting injustice, and living in the moment
ALBUM REVIEW: Benjamin Dakota Rogers Beckons With Fireside Tales on ‘Paint Horse’
These days, the word “authentic” gets thrown around with such frequency, it can ring empty. But it is fitting when describing Benjamin Dakota Rogers, whose new album, Paint Horse, is a collection of genuine folk songs with none of the put-ons and all the experience to back it up.
ALBUM REVIEW: Blues, Gospel, and Soul Mix Just Right on Joe Louis Walker’s ‘Weight of the World’
Joe Louis Walker has been to church and back. Roommate Mike Bloomfield's 1981 death from an accidental overdose shook Walker so thoroughly that the young guitarist went from wallowing with heathens including Muddy Waters and Jimi Hendrix to soaring to lofty heights with the Spiritual Corinthians Gospel Quartet.
Ben Folds Announces New Album, ‘What Matters Most’
While Ben Folds has been busy with a wide array of musical projects in the past decade or so, it’s been a while since we’ve heard him tap back into his singer-songwriter side — but that wait is about to be over.
For What Matters Most, his first
ALBUM REVIEW: Humanity Shines Through on Jaimee Harris’ ‘Boomerang Town’
On her sophomore album, Boomerang Town, Jaimee Harris weaves spellbinding tales, wrapping stories of home, grief, loss, addiction, and love into deeply moving atmospheric music.
The title track tells the story of two people longing to leave their small town where people “spin in circles, round and round” but constantly
THE LONG HAUL: Musicians vs. Airlines – What Can We Do?
If you want to know what musicians talk about at parties, it’s not usually their favorite lyrics or chord progressions (although sometimes that does happen). It’s not usually about favorite venues or guitar pedals (OK, that does happen a lot). But what simply never fails to come up