ALBUM REVIEW: JD Clayton Follows His Heart for ‘Long Way From Home’
Like so many artists, JD Clayton went to Nashville to make his music dreams come true. But it was his Arkansas roots that ultimately helped him home in on his sound: no-frills and anchored by his true-blue twang. On his debut full-length album, Long Way From Home,
ALBUM REVIEW: Eddie 9V Channels Classic Sounds Into New Soul on ‘Capricorn’
Eddie 9V is a soulful minister, delivering the goods like a man who's seen his musical calling writ large and is broadcasting it loud and clear. But even though he's looking skyward, don't be sidetracked by the title of his latest record. Capricorn ain&
ALBUM REVIEW: Half Gringa Seeks Her Full Self on ‘Ancestral Home’ EP
“It’s who you become in the end,” Isabel Olive sings on “Miranda,” from Ancestral Home, her latest collection of songs under the moniker Half Gringa. Across five tracks, Olive is a seeker of selfhood, carving identity from passed-down stories, truths and lore from the past, and, of course,
ALBUM REVIEW: Irene Kelley’s ‘Snow White Memories’ Adds Warmth to Winter
Irene Kelley’s crystalline vocals warmly envelop listeners on her new album, Snow White Memories, wrapping them in a soothing blanket of sound. The eminent bluegrass singer and songwriter delivers these 11 songs with a piercing intimacy that reverberates in the heart, coursing over the emotional landscape of loneliness, loss,
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Fragments’ Bears Witness to Bob Dylan’s Late-'90s Resurgence
Bob Dylan closed the 1980s with the Daniel Lanois-produced Oh Mercy, an acclaimed return-to-form after more than a decade of bad reviews and being “written off,” as his concert introductions voiced by stage manager Al Santos dryly made clear, “as a has-been by the end of
Nickel Creek Returns With ‘Celebrants,’ Trio’s First Album in Nine Years
Nickel Creek fans know by now that the band’s fire never dies, it just tends to smolder for a while.
After a nine-year break from recording together, the trio of Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, and Sean Watkins is back with a new album, Celebrants, coming March 24 via