ALBUM REVIEW: Appalachian Road Show Puts Joyful Sound Into ‘Jubilation’
Appalachian Road Show’s new album, Jubilation, couldn’t be more aptly named: The 13 tracks on this collection celebrate life, love, and music exuberantly. The band — Darrell Webb on mandolins and banjo, Barry Abernathy on banjo, Zeb Snyder on guitar, Jim VanCleve on fiddles, and Todd Phillips on bass
THE READING ROOM: Margo Price Details Pain and Progress in Memoir ‘Maybe We’ll Make It’
Two-thirds of the way through her searing new autobiography, Maybe We’ll Make It (Texas), Margo Price shares the ways that music has transformed her pain — and Price has lived through more than her share of pain, especially losing one of her twin boys to an unsuccessful (actually, a
ALBUM REVIEW: The Mighty Soul Drivers Keep the Genre on the Road
Soul is not dead. It's been slumbering for a while, but in recent years it has been resuscitated by a handful of flamekeepers with the care and the tonsils to bring the music back to its former glory.
Pittsburgh native Billy Price has kept the music and sound
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘Lines in the Levee,’ Town Mountain Strives for Songs That Matter
With their latest album, Lines in the Levee, Asheville, North Carolina-based Town Mountain takes time to look back at what they have lived through and to examine the legacy they will leave. The tracks offer glimpses into the tensions between staying home and taking to the road, the temptations
ALBUM REVIEW: Violet Bell Lets Wild Souls Run Free on ‘Shapeshifter’
There’s a particular question Violet Bell’s Lizzy Ross and Omar Ruiz-Lopez pondered while making their new album, Shapeshifter: “What would it take to recover our wild souls and a sense of being at home in ourselves?” They address this thought-provoking notion through in-depth lyrics that
ALBUM REVIEW: A Free and Easy Flow on Courtney Marie Andrews’ ‘Loose Future’
Accepting yourself as you are takes work, and for Courtney Marie Andrews, it meant opening herself up to possibility. It meant writing a song a day, giving in to romance, and all the things that made her uncomfortable. The payoff was more than just a privately held personal one. It